by Jeffrey Mann | February 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
Good systems have good user interfaces. They anticipate what we want to do, learn our preferences and foibles; protect us from mistakes. As devices get better at anticipating what we do, they gradually become a part of our personalities, as we get more and more accustomed to how they learn about us and come to [...]
Category: Applications devices predictions Tags: design, travel, user interface
by Jeffrey Mann | January 1, 2011 | 5 Comments
For the last two years, I have done blog posts on what I call my anti-resolutions for the year. Many bloggers publish their predictions, personal resolutions and highlights around the end of the year. So I won’t. If lots of people do something, that usually is a good enough reason for me not do it. [...]
Category: anti-resolutions blogging humor microblogging Personal predictions social media social software Tags: anti-resolutions, blogging, happy new year, humor, ipad, microblogging, twitter
by Jeffrey Mann | March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
It is hard to believe that the Twitter phenomenon is only four years old, but it’s true that the Twitter.com service went live on March 21, 2006. It has enjoyed a meteoric rise into common consciousness, such that even people who never use it know what (more or less) it is, and have heard celebrities [...]
Category: humor microblogging predictions social media Twitter Tags: humor
by Jeffrey Mann | December 30, 2009 | 9 Comments
Last year, I did a blog post on what I call my anti-resolutions for the year. Traditionally, many blogs publish their predictions and personal resolutions around the end of the year. So I won’t. Instead, I want to talk about my anti-resolutions for 2010.They are “anti” in a couple different ways. The main one is [...]
Category: being an analyst collaboration email humor Magic Quadrant Microsoft predictions social media social software symposium technology Vendors Tags: a android, chromeOS, humor, integrity, Mac, Magic Quadrant, reply all, scuzzball, sharepoint, social media, Vendors
by Jeffrey Mann | February 18, 2009 | 7 Comments
NOTE: This is a work of fiction. When I first heard about Facebook trying to change their Terms of Service to give them perpetual rights to users’ content, even if they delete their data, I was not too fussed. I figured it was to avoid any possible legal complications rather than a sinister secret plan. [...]
Category: Facebook predictions social software Tags: Facebook, IP, patent trolls, privacy, social media, TOS
by Jeffrey Mann | January 1, 2009 | 5 Comments
Many blogs publish their predictions and personal resolutions on the first day of the year. So I won’t. Instead, I want to talk about 10 anti-resolutions for 2009. They are anti in a couple different ways. The main one is that these are not things that I intend to do, but stuff that I hope [...]
Category: being an analyst blogging predictions social software Vendors Tags: 2009, collaboration market, predictions, resolutions, social software market, video conferencing
