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Looking Back on Cannes Symposium

November 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The time period after an intense conference like Symposium closes down is always a bit strange for analysts. We inhabit an isolated world with the delegates, revolving around presentations, workshops, 1 on 1 meetings, receptions, meals and (usually not enough) sleep. It’s the same for attendees, but there are a slew of people making sure [...]

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Tags: Events · Google · IBM · Microsoft · being an analyst · collaboration · symposium

Watching Waves of New Technology

July 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

Tonight I finally took time to watch the entire demo of Google Wave from the recent IO conference. I had already read a lot about it, but had not yet found an hour and a half to watch the entire presentation. This is a pretty busy period, so finding that much time to do anything [...]

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Tags: Google · collaboration · social software

Reassuring Ambition and Activity at PCC Conference

June 15th, 2009 · No Comments

We went into this year’s Portal, Content and Collaboration (PCC) Summit event with a bit of trepidation, or at least I did. With the somber economic news leading to reports of spending cuts and travel bans, I expected light attendance and listless participants with no room to initiate new activities. That is what I remember [...]

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Tags: Events · collaboration

Social Software at the Japanese BI and IM conference

June 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I wire this on my way home from 9 days in Hong Kong and Japan. It was a great trip, partly because I love traveling to Asia. It also is a chance to get exposure to some very different markets and trends than I usually deal with when talking with EMEA and North American customers. [...]

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