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Archives for December, 2008


Hidden Messages in the Google Zeitgeist – The Ultimate Risks of Consumerization

by Tom Austin  |  December 10, 2008  |  3 Comments

People now dominate the Google Zeitgeist Check out Google’s 2008 Zeitgeist site. And browse through the various tabs on that page (e.g., US Zeitgeist and Trendsetters).  What’s remarkably clear is the total absence of Information Technology related terms or issues. Not that information technology isn’t important. Without information technology, we wouldn’t have the Internet or [...]

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Peace Down Under – at a price

by Tom Austin  |  December 2, 2008  |  5 Comments

I was “out of office” for the entire month of November, between travel to Symposia in Cannes and Sydney as well as client meetings in Melbourne and family get-togethers in Los Angeles and New Jersey. A month out isn’t the same thing as a month off but ten days down under (after a week in [...]

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