Dell, in a brilliant display of PR savvy, has tried to trademark “cloud computing”. Per The Standard: After witnessing countless corporate attempts to patent common practices or trademark common terms, and seeing the resulting PR fallout, one would think that companies would just stop trying. Dell, however, seems to think that it should be able
Read More...Quite a bit, actually. This is one that you should look at deeper than the headline. Last week, Appirio announced that it bagged Series B funding upwards of $5M by Sequoia Capital. It’s worth noting that Sequoia is the same firm that underwrote upstarts such as Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and PayPal. The pedigree is Midas-esque
Read More...If you take this blog’s RSS feed and drop it into Wordle, you get a neat word cloud composed of oft-used words found in the feed’s RSS data. The cloud for Unfiltered looks like this (click to enlarge): Nice idea for a web app, and good design aspects too. All you need for Wordle to
Read More...If you made it past the long headline and would like to come talk to us in person, we’ll be at the Quest Northeast conference this week from July 16 through July 18 at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Ledyard, CT. We’re in booth 208 and would love to hear from you. Come on
Read More...Phil Wainewright: Enterprise software giant SAP has lost one of its brightest software-as-a-service stars to SaaS titan Salesforce.com, I can exclusively reveal. Steve Lucas, who spearheaded the development of SaaS at Business Objects, acquired by SAP last year, left the company at the end of June and began work straight away at Salesforce.com, where his
Read More...One of the most difficult things to do is to walk away from an opportunity. Even though you know in your heart it’s the right thing to do, it is always difficult. A few weeks ago we made a tough decision that only recently demonstrated that it was the right course of action. One of
Read More...Let’s have some long weekend fun. As we approach the holiday break (at least here in the US), I’d like your thoughts on the ongoing iPhone vs. BlackBerry debate. I ask mainly for my own purposes, but I know for a fact there are others out there considering a similar move, so I hope this
Read More...Must be the season for social-engineering spam, because if you thought this was bad, get a load of what just showed up in my inbox: This is a well-done ploy on many counts: it appears to be from the IRS, implicates my employer, looks official, and logically follows tax season. The attachment, a Word DOC,
Read More...I’d like to share with you page 59 of Andy Sernovitz’s excellent book Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking, because it’s the page that’s worth the entire price of the book. Back when I tried to explain what this blog was all about — and by extension, what our company is
Read More...Oracle Corp. impressed the street by exceeding analyst expectations for its 4Q in a conference call Wednesday. For the period ended in May: Net income rose 27% to $2.04B (.39/share) from $1.6B (.31/share) in the year-ago quarter. Oracle’s previous revenue growth projection was 14% to 18%. Revenue increased 24% to $7.24B, and net income (excluding
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