Well, it was a busy week at Oracle World in San Francisco. A massive event that was well run. It was so big it felt like the days of Comdex in Las Vegas, before Vegas was a big convention city. The only thing missing was the Chili cook-off. Other big providers should take note of [...]
Entries from September 2008
Back to Planet Earth from Oracle World
September 26th, 2008 · No Comments
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Are Gamers The Next Generation of Business Leaders
September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
At Gartner’s Portal, Content and Collaboration Summit, John Seely Brown delivered an incredible closing Keynote. The former Chief Scientist and Director of Xerox PARC really delivered some powerful stories about people, social communities, competitiveness and learning.
One of the most interesting stories was about all the skills that networked gamers are building in recruiting users [...]
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Is Apple back in the Workplace game?
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments
This week at our Portals Content and Collaboration Conference in Los Angeles, we will be discussing Apple in one of our presentations. You can’t go anywhere these days without seeing an iPhone or a MacBook and in our calls with clients they are indicating that users have one or both of the devices in the [...]
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Putting the C in PCC
September 15th, 2008 · No Comments
The Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit kicks off on Tuesday afternoon with some interesting opening presentations. While the formal event starts on Wednesday, you don’ want to miss the chance to catch some of these sessions that focus on the Collaboration part of the PCC Summit.
Two sessions that I will be attending include:
Presence Is [...]
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iPhones, Browsers and my Wish List
September 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I live in Northern California now and have visited the Apple Store a lot lately. Yes, the iPhone is flying off the shelves, with or without 3G bugs….What is even more amazing is how many parents are buying them for their kids.
The startling thing about the iPhone is the web pages that have been viewed [...]
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Under Construction: 2008 Social Software Magic Quadrant
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments
The 2008 edition of the Social Software Magic Quadrant. Gartner Research Director Nikos Drakos is hard at work with the rest of the Social Software team rating providers and writing the research note. Gartner was the first Research firm to rate Social Software providers and the first edition of that Magic Quadrant that was published [...]
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Going Live in LA
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments
My new Gartner Blog is live….and I am personally excited about our Portals Content and Collaboration Summit that is being held in LA next week, in part because John Seely Brown is a keynote speaker there. I worked with John a few years back when I was based in a building next to PARC (and [...]
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