by Gene Phifer | November 30, 2008 | 2 Comments
The Gartner analyst community has been having a fun internal debate over the last couple of months over the validity of Web 2.0 user demographics. For a while we have been talking about digital natives, those who grew up in the era of the Web and who naturally gravitate toward Web 2.0 concepts and technologies, [...]
Category: web Tags: digital immigrant, digital native, web 2.0
by Gene Phifer | November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
I’m at the IBM Software Group Analsyt Summit today and tomorrow. I am sitting in the keynote, which is being delivered by Steve Mills. The focus of the keynote is IBM’s industry solutions. I heard Steve mutter the word ‘application’ more in this speech than I have in any other. And he used the term [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: application, IBM, IBMAnalystconf/08
by Gene Phifer | November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Last week I was in Detroit delivering a local briefing. The majority of the audience was from the automakers. You can guess what they were dealing with: cost cutting above all else. Being in IT in automakers (and many other industries) is not fun right now. But in our zeal to cut costs, which usually [...]
by Gene Phifer | November 10, 2008 | Comments Off
I ran into an interesting problem last week while doing sales calls. The client was in an industry where they sell to corporate facilities, not direct to the end user of the product. The client was trying to find a similar company where social software was used to interact with end users. We have lots [...]
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Category: web Tags: social software, web 2.0
