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April 05, 2011
If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear past year, getting business done as we know it today is going through a transformational,...
March 31, 2011
I remember there was a song that was pretty popular a few years ago called “If I had a Million Dollars,” by the Bare Naked...
March 23, 2011
When discussing the advent of the social business, I always hear questions like “where do we start?” and “what departments will/are most affected by social...
February 10, 2011
I just read that Basho Technologies, which has created an open source, highly available and fault-tolerant data structure for the cloud called Riak, has landed...
February 07, 2011
I just read a blog post about Amazon’s use of Oracle in the cloud that I can only call stupid.
Just stupid.
The post implies that open...
January 25, 2011
After more than a year of silent anticipation (that’s a nice way of saying “no one really cared”) integration giant Tibco is launching its first...
January 14, 2011
Many have probably seen that Salesforce.com has acquired web conferencing tools provider DimDim for $31m. (The rumors of this deal had been percolating since before...
January 12, 2011
I just checked out BranchOut, a new social site that is essentially a LinkedIn for facebook. The notion – keep all of your business contacts...
January 10, 2011
I really like talking with CRM journalist and all around smart guy Chris Bucholtz. Whenever we have an interview – it always beings around one...
December 16, 2010
Ok, I realize this post’s title may qualify for the most ridiculous I’ve done yet…but bar with me. I promise it will (kind of)...
December 03, 2010
Note: This blog post originally appeared in the UK-based B2B Marketing magazine blog series. And, since I think these are points worth repeating (and I...
December 01, 2010
I just saw that Yammer landed a cool $25 million in new funding. While that says a lot about the economy and the interest...
November 24, 2010
Salesforce.com seems to be blowing out its sales numbers and in a lot of ways that is great news. What is good for the market...
November 19, 2010
I was talking with some time Outsider and full time social smarts guy Mitch Lieberman via Twitter about Klout and why I think it is...
November 15, 2010
Isn’t it funny how once you get and idea or object in your head, you start to see examples of the object or idea everywhere?
Right...