by Jeffrey Mann | April 12, 2010 | 5 Comments
Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) are a continuing source of controversy and aggravation in the industry analyst world. I thought that most vendors have learned how to deal with these in a good way, but the experience I just had makes me wonder. NDAs are where an analyst agrees not to talk publicly about some of the [...]
Category: being an analyst Vendors Tags: NDA, non-disclosure agreement, secrecy
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 | March 8, 2010 | Submit a Comment
I can tell that I haven’t taken a long flight or train trip recently, because I haven’t blogged in a while. That’s when I get the most reflective. In the train from Amsterdam to Brussels this morning, I saw a recruitment ad that might be the best indicator that the dark days of recession are [...]
Category: europe Uncategorized Vendors Tags: 1990s, HR, recruitment, werving
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 | January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Internets are agog with speculation on numbers showing that the previously meteoric growth in Twitter users is beginning to sputter and slow down. Is this the end of the road for Twitter as the media darling? I’m not so sure. First, Hubspot’s measurements show that the rate of growth is slowing, not that Twitter [...]
Category: consumerization microblogging social media social software Twitter Tags: #SOTwitter, Hubspot, microblogging, twitter
by Jeffrey Mann | January 8, 2010 | 5 Comments
Like many places in the northern hemisphere, it snowed here last night. So like many people, I started the day clearing the driveway and creating a path to the front door. This takes some time, and since it is fairly mindless activity, my brain wanders while doing it. I get lots of ideas when I [...]
Category: collaboration social software technology Vendors Tags: adoption, pointless, snow, social media, tagging
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 | 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
by Jeffrey Mann | December 18, 2009 | 8 Comments
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting a lot of flak for a statement he made about privacy in a CNBC interview. Here is the quote that many people are upset about: If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. Wow! What an [...]
Category: Google privacy technology Tags: cnbc, Eric Schmidt, Google, privacy, something to hide, spanking
by Jeffrey Mann | December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I am sitting in the audience, waiting for the LeWeb conference in Paris to start. I am more accustomed to being backstage, waiting to speak at conferences. Organizing and speaking at Gartner conferences has sort of ruined me as an attendee at most of these things. I get antsy after a few minutes of sitting. [...]
Category: Events startup technology Vendors Tags: europe, innovation, leweb, startups
