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Archives for June, 2009


Serious applications for Microblogging are starting to emerge

by Mark Raskino  |  June 17, 2009  |  1 Comment

Over the last couple of weeks 3 major value delivering uses of Twitter have been revealed. Sales revenue Dell has attributed significant sales to Twiiter Scientific Research An article in New Scientist describes a mass social experiment conducted quickly and cheaply Democracy The Iran elections aftermath. Which reminds me of SMS text messaging importance during [...]

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Should IT fight recession with Cloud or COBOL ?

by Mark Raskino  |  June 10, 2009  |  1 Comment

Do you think the IT industry should fight its way out of this recession with nostalgia for the apparent certainties of the past, or a determination to progress into a new future?  It’s a reasonable question. In other domains, marketers are using nostalgia and innovation as strong alternative paths to appeal to customers. Here are [...]

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Have we just seen a tech-enabled great escape from depression?

by Mark Raskino  |  June 5, 2009  |  1 Comment

Perhaps we have just witnessed the biggest and most important ‘wisdom of crowds’ experiment we could never have imagined. Over the last 18 months we have all read about recessions of the past century; searching, sometimes desperately, for leanings from history.  Maybe its time to start taking stock of how this one played out.  Here’s [...]

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