Entries Categorized as 'Fun'
by Jack Santos | August 24, 2012 | Comments Off
Just got back from Gartner Catalyst late last night. Awesome conference – thanks to all that reached out and introduced themselves, stayed attentive during my presentations, asked questions, interacted in one-on-ones, and commented on my blog and research. I can’t say enough about the Erik Wahl keynote – evidenced by the crowd jumping out of [...]
Category: Catalyst 12 Fun Future Innovation Mobility Social Media Wireless Tags: 3g, Catalyst-NA, Cloud, consumerization, mobility, privacy, Social media, Wireless
by Jack Santos | July 17, 2012 | Comments Off
All the wires are hot about a new role for Paul Maritz at VMware….probably with a spinoff. It reminds me of a time when corporate shenanigans in a company I was with resulted in some major cutbacks – including at senior levels. Imagine my shock at the time when hearing about a recently let-go divisional [...]
Category: career Catalyst 12 CIO issues Fun Tags: career, Catalyst-NA, CIO, management
by Jack Santos | June 28, 2012 | Comments Off
I have the Outlook Social Connector on my work Outlook email, and it has had some interesting side effects. For the Facebook neophyte, that hasn’t paid attention to privacy settings, I now see work colleague’s Facebook posts. Do I really need to see you dressed in a chicken outfit for your nephews birthday party? Or [...]
Category: Cloud Fun Future Innovation management Managment Social Media Tags: Cloud, management, Social media
by Jack Santos | March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
This email came in: Hi all, Since you haven’t all gotten into the habit of checking the <enter you favorite collaboration product here: Lotus Connections, MS SharePoint>, let me repost this important discussion topic via email. In the spirit of a discussion thread, don’t answer me here…post your replies in the <your favorite collaboration product> [...]
Category: Cloud Fun Information Management Tags: consumerization, culture, data management, mobility, UI
by Jack Santos | February 28, 2012 | 1 Comment
A group of us has been sharing a great doc by one of our editors (Vince Earl) that is a quick and extensive guide to Windows keyboard shortcuts. KEYBOARD shortcuts? Oh that is so 90s. Who needs them on an iPad? I have some analyst side bets in the works over how much longer the [...]
Category: Fun Predictions Uncategorized Tags: mobility, UI
by Jack Santos | September 23, 2011 | Comments Off
Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop It Timothy Leary said it in a slightly different way… It’s that time of year when parents and school systems start publicizing “Turn off TV” month. Our local paper ran a piece on it – and in some cases it has been extended to ALL electronics (TV, radio, video games, [...]
Category: Fun Mobility Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, culture, IT relevance, Predictions, security, Strategy
by Jack Santos | August 31, 2011 | Comments Off
The title refers to a news piece about X5 music group in today’s Wall Street Journal. Which makes me think of this fictitious dialogue excerpt: But, Herr Gutenberg, if you are able to use your new technology just think of all the income we lose from pilgrims traveling to monasteries. Lost lodging revenue, religious trinket [...]
Category: Externalization Fun Strategic Planning Tags: consumerization, culture, Externalization, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | June 6, 2011 | Comments Off
First there was “The Bunch”: Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control data, and Honeywell – the gang of five (2 more made 7 dwarfs) that tried, and failed, to take down IBM in the 60s and 70s. Through the ages of Amdahl, Cray, DEC, Compaq, Digital Research..and now… We arrive at “The Gang of Four”, or the [...]
Category: Fun Tags: consumerization, words
by Jack Santos | May 19, 2011 | Comments Off
Hanging around Wednesday at the MIT CIO conference. Great opportunity to reconnect – and even get caught up on the latest campus news. I hadn’t heard that Frank Moss left Media Lab. Frank and I worked together at Bowstreet (he was a major investor and Chairman); Frank also was an IBM Research guy from way [...]
Category: Fun Mobility Predictions Wireless Tags: 3g, CIO, consumerization, mobility, Predictions, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 17, 2011 | Comments Off
175 Years ago (in 1836), Texas beat the Mexican army to become an independent state….and eventually a US state. Today, the Alamo (the battle loss that led to the war win) is a car rental agency, and a tourist attraction. The “I don’t knows” (abbreviated phonetically in the post title) are the segment of the [...]
Category: Applications Cloud Fun Mobility Wireless Tags: consumerization, culture, mobility, Wireless
