by Jeffrey Mann | April 1, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Gartner’s popular Hype Cycles are getting a real world accessory: The Hype Bicycletm! Specially designed to help navigate the peaks and troughs that IT managers encounter every day, the Hype Bicycletm is your vehicle for IT success. After last year’s Magic Fractals and the year before’s Real Quadrants, this new addition to Gartner’s branded research [...]
Category: April Fool's humor Hype Cycle Tags: April Fools, cycling, Hype Cycle
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 [...]
Category: being an analyst blogging consumerization Hype Cycle microblogging Twitter Tags: Hype Cycle, microblogging, twitter
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, [...]
Category: caramel Hype Cycle Tags: caramel, Hype Cycle
