While social networking allows everyone to communicate, collaborate, and all that other good 2.0 buzzwordy stuff, it also allows your friends to blackmail you. In this first chapter of Why I Hate the Interwebs, I bring you an old Halloween photo from 2002 that my friend Rachel decided to so graciously post on Facebook.
I Hate the Interwebs [...]
So I'm at the gym tonight jogging on the treadmill. I'm a big dude, so this is a miracle within itself. At least I had my trusty Zune to get me through the workout, right?. Well, not really.
For all you Apple fanboys, just chill out for a sec and listen; I bought the Zune at Christmas [...]
Majority Desk is a project that Dan McWeeney and I worked on this year for demo jam at SAP TechEd. It's basically a 3D rendered widget desktop ran by an open source physics server; and oh yeah, all user interaction is completely controlled by two Nintendo wiimotes. It supports full interaction with flash movies running on floating, spinning [...]
Let's face it, knowledge workers of today's new net generation are different than the cubicle junkies of the past. The new NetGen is a burst economy rather than a busy economy. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I highly recommend you read this classic blog entry by Anne Zelenka from Web Worker Daily [...]
While at the 360 Flex conference in Seattle, I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to be on the Flex Show with Jeffry Houser and Adobe Flex evangelist Ryan Stewart. I am already a regular listener, so it was really cool to get the chance to be live on AIR (bad pun intended). I [...]
At this year's RailsConf, Dave Thomas wrote about the Rails community as they set a precedent for other tech conferences by skipping the typical swag and instead donating any funds to charity. Fellow SDNer, Nigel James, then picked up on the meme by calling out to the SAP developer community and then shortly afterwards, it caught some momentum with the Redmonk guys [...]
If you are a fan of Minesweeper, you will love this. Thanks to Matthias for passing this along.
In honor of the Vendorprisey post last week about facebook's geographic diversion, I had to post this YouTube video below. It really did have me LOL.
I must admit, I'm really not sold yet on the value of Facebook for the Enterprise, but I do think it was pretty brilliant to open it up as [...]
The crowd is starting to get restless with new social networking sites springing up everyday. The recent buzz with Pownce has everyone wondering if they will now have to abandon Twitter for yet ANOTHER messaging tool. Even the king socialite Scoble seems to be getting tired of it in one of his latest [...]
Check out this video interview that Dan McWeeney and I did with Cote for RedmonkTV. It was shot during SAP Sapphire in Atlanta to discuss the SAP/CP Imagineering fellowship program.
You can check out the full post on Redmonk.com or on Podtech.net:
In this interview from SAP SAPPHIRE [...]
Last year, a big eye opener for me was watching Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth. More recently, I have been reading Thomas Friedman's new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded. It's sad and depressing to watch, even in the span of my own lifetime, what we are doing to our precious planet. [...]
Last week, I was introduced to an application called feedly by one of my fellow Enterprise Irregulars, Anshu Sharma. From the home page, it's described as "…a firefox extension which weaves twitter and Google Reader into a magazine like experience." In Anhsu's blog post, his focus is on the new service called feedly [...]
A lot of people ask me if the the lake that I live on in New Jersey freezes in the winter. It does indeed freeze solid, and it's really cool to see the different winter activities on the lake. Some things you would expect, and some others that are a little less known. [...]
Last year, a small group of some of my fellow enterprise developers decided to form a small group known as the Enterprise Geeks. Right now the group members are as follows:
Craig Cmehil
Dan McWeeney
Ed Herrmann
Rich Heilman
Thomas Jung
This week we have launched the new site where we will be maintaining a blog, podcast, and all kinds [...]
As Joel Spolsky explains in his post The Iceberg Secret, Revealed, the user interface usually represents less than 10% of the actual functionality of the entire application.
You know how an iceberg is 90% underwater? Well, most software is like that too — there's a pretty user interface that takes about 10% of the work, and [...]
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