by Jeffrey Mann | January 1, 2013 | Submit a Comment
For the last several years, I have written a series of blog posts on my anti-resolutions for the year. It’s easy to publish predictions and yearly previews in a blog around this time of year. So I won’t. If lots of people do something, that usually is a pretty good reason for me not do [...]
Category: anti-resolutions Apple being an analyst blogging Cloud Google Microsoft Tags: anti-resolutions, Cloud, new year, Office365
by Jeffrey Mann | November 12, 2012 | 3 Comments
A columnist at VentureBeat recently wrote about the supposed Dropbox Effect and whether it is real or not. I think it is, but not the way most people seem to be using the term. I see three aspects the supposed Dropbox effect: What the people saying it think it means What it really means What [...]
Category: Apple Cloud consumerization startup Vendors Tags: accellion, Box, Dropbox, file sync, gdrive, sharefile, skydrive, syncplicity, yousendit
by Jeffrey Mann | October 19, 2010 | 7 Comments
In an announcement from San Francisco today, Microsoft provided more details about next year’s planned revamp of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) cloud-based collaboration suite. Gartner’s official take on this announcement can be found here, but here are some of my thoughts. The new brand name is the most striking part of this announcement. [...]
Category: Cloud collaboration Google Microsoft social software Tags: BPOS, Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365, SaaS
by Jeffrey Mann | April 18, 2010 | 26 Comments
I spent a good part of the weekend surfing web sites to find more information about how the volcano eruption in Iceland is decimating travel in Europe; partly because it is a fascinating event, but mostly because my wife is in Canada and wants to get home. I booked her tickets using points on KLM.com, [...]
Category: Cloud europe Personal social media social software Tags: #ashcloud, #ashtag, airfrance, Facebook, klm, social media, twitter, volcano
by Jeffrey Mann | February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
You may not have realized it, but today is the third annual Safer Internet Day, a day to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially for children and young people around the world. The awkward name, doofy logo and stiff language quickly identify this as a government initiative (with [...]
Category: Cloud collaboration consumerization Facebook privacy security social media social software technology Tags: children on the Internet, EU, Facebook, Insafe, privacy, Safer Internet Day, social networking, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | December 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
It was a hectic, but fun and informative two days at entrepreneur Loic Lemeur’s LeWeb conference for high tech startups in Paris earlier this month. I was looking for exposure to new ideas and activities, and mostly achieve that. That’s me at the lower right of the picture. For those not there, Ustream has posted [...]
Category: Cloud europe Events Facebook Google LeWeb social software startup Vendors Tags: europe, Facebook, lemeur, leweb, venture capital, youtube
