Guy Creese

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PLATO: Social Software, 1970′s Style

by Guy Creese  |  May 25, 2010  |  Comments Off

A recent post on Peter O’Kelly’s blog took me to a web site entitled, “PLATO History: Remembering the Future,” which focuses on the history of PLATO, a computer system originally developed at the University of Illinois. As a blurb for the PLATO @ 50 Conference states, “Come find out what social software, e-learning, online community, [...]

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Navigating the News Stories: An Office 2010 Example

by Guy Creese  |  May 13, 2010  |  Comments Off

When a major high tech news story comes out, I often use it as a way to analyze not the news story, but the commentators. Microsoft’s Office 2010 announcement yesterday is a perfect example. You see stories from the pro-Microsoft camp, the anti-Microsoft camp, and “unbiased” reporters. It’s not an easy task to figure out [...]

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Guy Who?

by Guy Creese  |  May 12, 2010  |  Comments Off

Larry Cannell and I are the two Burton Group CCS analysts who have so far been added to the Gartner Blog Network (GBN in internal Gartner parlance). Larry had a great initial post, so I thought I’d follow his lead and describe myself. I… …am an analyst in the Collaboration and Content Strategies team in [...]

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Hi!

by Guy Creese  |  May 12, 2010  |  1 Comment

As you can see–since you’re reading this–I now can post on the Gartner Blog Network. So get ready for a steady stream of posts on subjects such as Office 2010, rival productivity suites, and Software as a Service solutions.

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