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Sep 2nd, 2010
Why I Don’t Care About Cloud Computing Technology!
An associate dropped me an email asking why I didn’t carry any technical articles about cloud computing and Web 2.0 platforms. As a developer and programmer he obviously has a highly technical bent and I no doubt disappointed him when I replied that I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in the technical aspects of cloud [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
HyperOffice Announces Major Upgrades To Service
This week I received an email from Shahab Kaviani from HyperOffice bringing me up to date with what is happening. Shahab wrote: “There has been a flurry of activity at HyperOffice since the May 20 launch of our new UI, and I just wanted to give you an update. Since then, we have already had [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
iPad Replaces Pen And Paper In Scottish School
As teachers up and down the land return to school, one Scottish independent Christian school has announced a move to iPad teaching. For pupils at the Greenock-based Cedars School of Excellence the daily routine will no longer be focused on traditional books, pencils, pens, and paper. Instead education will be based around Apple’s iPad. Speaking to the [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
My Paper.li Newspapers
For the past few weeks I’ve been publishing three daily Twitter ‘newspapers’ with the paper.li platform and with the exception of a little pushback about autotweets getting a bit spammy, for the most part it’s been a positive and useful experience. paper.li is an easy to use platform that organises links shared on [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
Pushdo/Cutwail Botnet Takedown Attempt: No Major Impact On Overall Spam Volume, Traffic “Spikey”
Just a quick note about recent news reports (such as PCWorld, “Huge Spamming Botnet Injured but Still Alive“and InfoWorld, “What it Takes to Shut Down a Botnet“) about efforts to curtail the activities of the so-called Pushdo or Cutwail botnet. This network of compromised computers is suspected of being one of the largest sources of [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
Why Sportsmen Perform Better Than Businessmen
It was interesting to hear about the innovative training techniques the new England Cricket coach has been using. Using computer bowling system called Pro-Batter, practicing in the nets with a bat the size of a cucumber and one with double the weight, running 5,8, 10 runs between balls, batting whilst bombarded with noise to [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
How Can I Get More Budget For Email?
As a marketing technique, sometimes I feel that people undervalue email as a channel because it’s ‘cheap’ and easy deploy. The knock on effect is that it can receive very little in the way of board-level attention. This makes it really hard for marketers to get more budget to support their email marketing campaigns. However, there [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
Safer Social Networking
I was asked recently for a few tips on how to look after yourself online, particularly with regard to social networking. I know many of the people who read this blog are regular users of Facebook & Twitter, so I wanted to share those tips here. It’s by no means an exhaustive list and I [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
MS Vs VMware: Who’s Better At Disaster Recovery?
Anybody who is involved in running high availability services in a virtualised world ought to read through this very informative article. It discusses the various techniques used to prioritise the restarting of services when failures occur on a particular host. Firstly, there is confusion over whether the article is about true Disaster Recovery (DR) – by that [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
Writing With Joy, Listening With Intent
I’ve just read a post by Jen Louden on her digital sabbatical which also led me to a great post by Gwen Bell. What I got from both was a sense of slowing down – when we are on the web it is easy to imagine ourselves in a space of speed, rather than still having [...]
Sep 2nd, 2010
Oracle UK Distributors Decided
Oracle has finally made a decision on who will distribute to their UK market. Arrow ECS and Avnet made it through the long and, constantly delayed process. As one commenter put it during the weeks of waiting, ‘If they (Oracle) were going to do something easy, the assumption is they would have done it [...]
Sep 1st, 2010
Cloud In Action: “Have You Got To Go Back To Work?”
Today’s post is the second in a series entitled Cloud in Action in which I hope to provide real life examples of how the Cloud can improve the way we all do business. Cloud is not about technology, it is about business and how we are are able to grow our companies faster. Last Friday [...]
Sep 1st, 2010
Industry Trends: Beer Distribution And Improving Profit Performance
Beer Distribution is an interesting business: High margin, protected by regulation that has traditionally limited most forms of competition, which leads to an overall lack of incentive to innovate technologically. Nevertheless, despite the lack of innovation incentives there are some activities occurring that signal the status quo may be changing a little bit; for example, [...]
Sep 1st, 2010
All Hail The Late Adapters
To Adapt means to make suitable or to adjust to requirements or new/different conditions. To Adopt means to to choose or take as one’s own. My objective is not to make CRM Outsiders a weekly lesson in Etymology nor definitions of commonly used words. That said, I sense that some of the infighting regarding definitions breaks [...]
Sep 1st, 2010
Advertising Standards Authority Increases Digital Remit
News today via the BBC and on the ASA website that the Advertising Authority will get new powers over online advertising and marketing statements (much of which is currently out of their remit). This is important for you as according to the ASA website, it will cover “The remit will apply to all sectors and all [...]
