July 2, 2006

PayPerPost causes an uproar- that’s a good thing

PayPerPost is a new blogging service that helps connect advertisers and bloggers to engage in conversations about products and services. Is this a good or bad thing? Well, it depends on who you ask.
Scoble notes that he won’t use PayPerPost (or if he does he’ll disclose) and goes on to talk about the blogger/journalist payola [...]

July 2, 2006

Integrating Office with LOB applications and other services

Software for the Enterprise and the Web: LOBi and enterprise architecture- what are the implications?

July 2, 2006

Fresh pavement

Sam Ruby: Repave Periodically

July 2, 2006

Scoble’s Exit Interview

Scoble has posted his own “exit interview” on his blog. Go comment and ask him the really tough questions that journalists and colleagues have yet to ask him.

July 2, 2006

Which technology companies are taking the risks- the old or the new?

Business Week: “Indeed, for a generation of managers weaned on the rigors of Six Sigma error-elimination programs, embracing failure — gasp! — is close to blasphemy.”
Microsoft often talks about our willingness to let people fail and take big risks. I know it is part of our history, but it makes me wonder about what big [...]

July 2, 2006

Another Google no show?

Scoble: “[Y]ou aren’t going to get better market share numbers by not showing up to influential computer conferences.”
So Google is a no show at another event? They hardly participated at MIX this year (the only major internet company that wasn’t actively engaged) and I heard them same from several other notable non-Microsoft conferences this year. So [...]