Whit Andrews

I get it. I don’t necessarily think Google will succeed, but I get it.
My son, Joe, is entranced with a PC game called Spore. You tragic readers who have been reading this for a while may remember some lengthy and muddled consideration about whether to get it or the following self-congratulatory post noting its virtues. [...]

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This is a kid’s party at an elementary school. They now have live video of the kids for the kids! Not having fun if it ain’t on video!
Before you know it, they’ll need cameras in the boardroom to know they’re having a meeting.

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Yahoo pre-dated launches. There was a moment when they asked the question “Do You Yahoo?” I remember that. It was verbishly precious, and it never took off. (Wonder if that sort of thing ever will? If only one needed “to Gartner” things. Wonder if any company name will ever be a verb.) Lycos was, hmmm [...]

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I was talking to the folks at Nstein today about their product roadmap and current position. (100+ customers, mostly big media who believe in the value of intelligent content delivery as a business model. Don’t we all? Here in the ITE bunker, anyway.)
Anyway, they said they’ve developed a new taxonomy development and management tool. Who’s [...]

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The key premise of the Hostile Information Ecosystem is that mechanisms created to highlight or illuminate information for relevancy purposes that are founded on people’s good behavior are inherently vulnerable. What is vulnerable is attacked. The essential nature of seething human competition and conflict is that people will try to subvert any proper, decent system [...]

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I’ve got in draft now a document which we intend for people to download as part of the Gartner for IT Leaders program, a toolkit with a policy for how to manage an internal YouTube as well as a role description for the manager for that Thing. (You got a name for it better than [...]

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I took great pleasure the last few days in reading Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge, which bears a text badge on the cover that reads “[A View From Europe]“, which is a duh-to-the-max addendum if there has ever been one such. The book is deeply non-American, and was a pleasing wake-up call for [...]

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OK, so my sense of direction is definitively the worst of any living Gartner analyst. I freely admit this. This is why I have as a standing request on my rental car profile that I get a GPS Thingie in the car.
I got in the car this morning in South San Francisco, which is exactly [...]

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We’re just getting started here, but the room is full of lawyers. So far, two lawyer jokes. That’s what you’re looking for, along with advice lawyers can actually follow, and also i would like a power outlet. Got the cord stretched across a gap. Anybody trips, it’ll be easy to find a lawyer. [rimshot]
John Bace: [...]

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