
Eagles, Cattle, And Gators — Welcome To HQ
Cracker Cow Customer Service Mr. Eagle On His Lakeside Perch Many corporate, non-profit and public sector organization Web sites feature wonderful pictures of their offices/factories/mines/etc to suggest the substance and durable nature of their activities. Even in this era of virtual everything, there remains something comforting about knowing that our suppliers, customers, partners — really all of […]

Weekend Parody: Accounting For R&D In China — Internal Politburo Memorandum Found
Spend Matters has found an inside source close to the Chinese politburo (one of the rumors circulating in intelligence circles, which is not true mind you, is that we managed to smuggle out a secure red phone and stick it right in…

Santa – Bring these tech gifts to these people NOW!
High Tech firms sometimes overlook great opportunities for creating holiday cheer and a better business world. Here, Brian offers up ten ideas for Santa to deliver this holiday season, if only high tech firms made these products. Did he forget any?

SaaS Growth, Dogfood, and Images :-)
Fellow Enterprise Irregular Evangelos Simoudis is definitely worth following. As an active Venture Capitalist he often focuses on his portfolio experience – but through that micro-lense gives us an overview of the market, “The State of SaaS” per se, confirming / contradicting based on real life, real companies what many of us see as trends. […]

Software Marketing Pranks
I envy software marketing types. They get to stay kids forever: pull pranks and even get paid for it.:-) Today’s example comes courtesy of TechCrunch: PayPal competitor WePay dropped a 600lbs ice block at the entrance of the Paypal developer conference. They got chased away and Moscone security removed the ice block. My question: who […]

Bill McDermott and Tom Bergeron: Separated at Birth?
Bill McDermott and Tom Bergeron: separated at birth? You be the judge … 😉

Cloud Computing for All Budgets
Previously I shared the secret to Budget Cloud Storage, now here’s the deluxe version. (Click to see cartoon and video)

Location, Location, Location
A few days ago I was walking down an otherwise uninteresting street and I see this sign soliciting investment. Nothing out of the ordinary but the “don’t ask me…” warning was a little odd, as well as the NDA before the person will tell you anything about it… but no, the most interesting aspect of […]

Tied Up? Dragon Naturally Speaking Comes to Rescue… or Not?
Nuance released version 11 of Dragon Naturally Speaking, their voice recognition / dictation software. Below is a rather unusual review by David Pogue of The New York Times: On a more serious note – I’m a really poor typist, my blogging is hampered by the slowness of typing, and there are all those situations when […]