My wife, Lauren, and I just returned last week from our wonderful vacation in Malpais, Costa Rica. Even though it was the rainy season, we had a great time. We stayed at the Moana Lodge and met some really cool people. We made some great new friends with the owners, Aidan, a crazy, larger than [...]
We are back at SAP Labs in Palo Alto this week after spending one week in Atlanta for Sapphire and one week in New Jersey working on site at Colgate. We are targeting to spend one week each month back at home to make sure our co-innovation goals stay in alignment: Business Intelligence (BI) adoption [...]
In a recent response from Mike Prosceno of SAP, he answers a couple of questions regarding his post about Enterprise 2.0 and The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration. There is no doubt that SAP has had huge success in reaching out and getting their community involved on the SAP Developer Network. However, there is still a [...]
If you don't know what the cluetrain is, then you need to hop over to www.cluetrain.com and check it out. For now, here is the quick and dirty: A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, [...]
Good: It is good when your users are excited about your product. When they tell their friends about it, blog about it, and even shoot videos of it, you are doing something right. Check out this video of Robert Scoble talking and getting excited about Twitter. Click To Play Bad: It is not good when [...]
I often wonder if there are actually people who buy things from the ads that they see on websites, blogs, etc. I really don't think I have ever bought a single product from this type of advertising model. This seems to be the current way to monetize users, so I suppose there is someone out [...]
I used to think I was half way competent until I recently tried to order a pen and some laser printer toner using the newly implemented procurement application at my workplace. Boy, was I wrong; it turns out that I must be flat-out, stupid. I tried, I really did, but upon entry into a maze [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock since last December, you have undoubtedly heard about Nintendo's latest generation game console, Wii. Wii has taken the world by storm with it's innovation and simplicity. Perhaps the most intriguing feature of the system is the Wii remote control, also known as the Wiimote. The Wiimote looks [...]
I often wonder what meetings and presentations were like in the business world before there was PowerPoint. I believe that PowerPoint can be effective when used properly, but why is it that 95% of all presentations are boring with some monotone person standing in front of the room reading off bullet points? A colleague, Dan [...]
How many people have you encountered that you would be confident enough to run a small 2-3 person startup with? To make the question a little more interesting, let's say that company was going to be 100% funded by you or your mom (assuming you actually like her). Try to think of some of past/present [...]
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. In a world [...]
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 mini; however, [...]
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. I have [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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