Jeffrey Mann

A member of the Gartner Blog Network

Entries Categorized as 'Hype Cycle'


Of Microblogging, Twitter and Hype Cycles

by Jeffrey Mann  |  August 19, 2009  |  14 Comments

This is Hype Cycle season, which always leads to lots of comments on blogs and other social media sites. I wrote the Microblogging technology profile, and have been alternately bemused and amused about the reactions to its position this year. Talking about Twitter always generates reactions, especially on Twitter. This year, Microblogging (which includes the [...]

14 Comments »

Category: Hype Cycle Twitter being an analyst blogging consumerization microblogging     Tags: , ,

How Blogging Is Like Salted Caramel

by Jeffrey Mann  |  December 31, 2008  |  1 Comment

I was just reading an article in the New York Times, and something felt very familiar. My wife has been telling me for about a year that caramel is the new chocolate, and this article backs her up (much later than she realized it, of course). Previous inexplicably popular food fads like asiago cheese, chipotle, [...]

1 Comment »

Category: Hype Cycle caramel     Tags: ,