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QUOTE: On technique

“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.” — Raymond Chandler (Thx Signal vs. Noise)

8 June

Friday nonsense: How to be happy in business plus assorted (but very useful) links

I’ll begin with Bud Caddell’s smart Venn diagram illustrating how to be happy in business: …to which Caddell appends the following: Over the years, I’ve found myself facing the following scenarios. (and I’ve added my two cents on how to move forward) We can’t determine how to make enough money from the things we want

5 June

Palm Pre review roundup (includes Pre welcome video)

Looks like the iPhone had better bring its game face to WWDC and OS 3.0, because the Pre isn’t kidding around. It gets high marks for its WebOS, which allows real app multitasking, and reviewers unanimously praise its OS speed, browser, screen and overall user interface/experience. It gets nicked for a fairly poor keyboard, some

4 June

Good luck with that

DigiTimes reports that Steven Guggenheimer, General Manager of the Application Platform & Development Marketing Division at Microsoft, plans to re-brand “netbooks” as “low cost small notebook PCs”. Guggenheimer pointed out on June 2 in Taipei during Computex 2009 that since some of the mini-notebooks already feature capabilities more than just purely Internet browsing – which

3 June

How ERP vendors can change the world and create new adjunct markets

Vinnie Mirchandani has some interesting ideas about how ERP vendors could be truly disruptive and create thriving, adjunct markets around the concept of sustainability. There’s a truism underpinning Mirchandani’s post, which I have mirrored in its entirety below. The truism is that sustainability and energy science is one of the emerging, global, multi-billion dollar industries

2 June

An introduction to PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM): Part I

We’re asked very frequently about PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM), so perhaps it’s time to lay down a few primer posts about what ALM is and why enterprises are becoming so interested in it. This post, the first of four parts, will discuss PeopleSoft’s ALM solution suite. As a general intro, the product was released

2 June

Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant update secretly installs Firefox extension

Community backlash is building against a routine .NET Framework update for Microsoft Windows that quietly installs a browser add-on for user who surf the Web with Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser. From WaPo’s Brian Krebs: I’m here to report a small side effect from installing this service pack that I was not aware of until just

1 June

Twitter as viewed by those who don’t understand Twitter

I know several people who acutely suffer from this affliction. (Via teh tumblr)

29 May

Happy Friday: this week’s links

Lot of interesting things going on this week that can’t get their own blog post, but nonetheless are worth checking out. Enjoy. Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee interviewed at D7 about the reinvention of Palm and the buzz surrounding the Palm Pre. Lots of conference notes here, but the video demo of the latest Pre

29 May

Why should you consider a Real Estate Management application?

If you’ll indulge me a moment: our firm has become a noted authority on the PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution suite, particularly along the Maintenance Management (MM) and Real Estate Management (REM) lines. (Our own PeopleSoft Maintenance Management whitepaper is a popular download.) It’s in this context that I’m going to recommend Joshua Greenbaum’s

28 May