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Archives for May, 2009


Will the Google Wave inspire a Revolution?

by Tom Austin  |  May 29, 2009  |  6 Comments

Google inspires and frustrates, leads and lags, marches to the beat of a different (non-enterprise) drummer and wants everyone (including enterprises) to love and adore it. What a mix! I have been looking at Google Wave and I am really, really impressed. At the same time, I have serious misgivings about whether Google understands what [...]

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The iPhone is not a Phone

by Tom Austin  |  May 5, 2009  |  3 Comments

Daryl Plummer and I have been carrying on a conversation (with several others) about understanding what an iPhone is. First and foremost, it is not a phone. The iPhone is the first clearly visible member of a new class of Internet-savvy populist toolkits that you can carry with you. (Insert list of newly introduced competitors [...]

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Twitter Quitter Critters

by Tom Austin  |  May 4, 2009  |  2 Comments

Where have all the users gone? The press has been repeating a piece today covering a story (originally from Nielsen) that Twitter quitters found to outnumber tweeters.  So…are you a twitterer? Have you twittered more or less in the last 30 days than in the previous 30 days?

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