Musing about Flickr and YouTube and mobile phone cameras in the enterprise

Recently I spent some time considering the differences between traditional office e-mail and facebook e-mail: the lack of bc, cc and forward buttons, the way links and videos and sound files are attached, the absence of spreadsheet and document and presentation attachments, and so on. All that got me thinking. For a while now I’ve … Continue reading “Musing about Flickr and YouTube and mobile phone cameras in the enterprise”

Unintended consequences

]I was due to meet my family at Miami airport earlier this evening; we had these wondrous plans that involved me driving from Sundance to Salt Lake City, flying from there to Denver and on to Miami, reaching there just in time to collect my wife and children as they flew in from London. I … Continue reading “Unintended consequences”

A Sunday sideways shufti at mail

We have mail. Maybe I should say: I have mail. For sure I do: Physical or snail-mail arriving at work and at home “Work” e-mail, usually received via BlackBerry “Personal” e-mail, which for me consists of mail received at my .mac mail account “Social network” mail, which for me consists mainly of Facebook messages (and … Continue reading “A Sunday sideways shufti at mail”

Musing about enterprise information and flow

The diagram above is from an article headlined “The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You” which appeared in Wired about a year ago. Go read the original, the diagram is interactive and instructive. Why instructive? After all, doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, … Continue reading “Musing about enterprise information and flow”

Walking the Plank: A Sunday Stroll through Piracy

Yossi Vardi has been an inspiration to me for many years, and thanks to him, I was able to make DLD in Munich this year. [Thanks, Yossi]. Who else but Yossi would seek to prove, definitively, that snails dragging CDs or DVDs could outstrip ADSL? It was partly through his example that I learnt about … Continue reading “Walking the Plank: A Sunday Stroll through Piracy”