Pre-mashed online suites: Google Calendar plus Gmail plus Maps plus Search plus ...
I can't wait to get a beta invitation to Google's calendar. That's one of the missing applications in my quest for an online home in the cloud.
Tom Foremski: IMHO
Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski writes about Silicon Valley business trends and the intersection of technology and media.
Tom Foremski
Tom Foremski reports on the business and culture of Silicon Valley at the intersection of technology and media.
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Blogging is crucial to SAP's attack Oracle plan
Part 3 of interview with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's top strategists.Part 2 is here and it discusses SAP's competitive landscape.
SAP's Jeff Nolan says his mission is to disrupt Oracle
[Part 2 of my meeting with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's key strategists. He runs the Apollo Group, a strategy and communications organization within SAP that is sometimes referred to as the "Attack Oracle" group.
Talking IT strategy with SAP's Jeff Nolan
...is Oracle-JBoss deal imminent?I'm running late for my meeting with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's key strategists, and a former venture capitalist at SAP Ventures.
A reader writes...on conversationisms
This was in response by reader yusoshi to my post on Conversation Overload, I dragged it out of the comments section because because it is well written and adds to the conversation (!)"I think Tom really hits the nail on the head with this article.
Nakedness, overload and other maladies of the Conversation Age
Last week I was speaking on a couple of panels at the New Communications Forum in Palo Alto, about journalism and about new media business models. This is a fun conference with many familiar faces and it always seems to end too quickly (and we've not even scratched the surface!
Ingres CTO says Oracle will fail in bid to control open source
More fuel to the fire over attempts to control open source by Oracle (and others?).
Google says it will run out of people
According to the latest report from Merrill Lynch, authored by Lauren Fine, GOOG CFO George Reyes spoke at the Merrill Lynch investor conference and said: "importantly, for the first time, Reyes did say that the law of large numbers will likely start to come into play."If you are wondering what the law of large numbers means in the context of Google, here is a quote from GOOG CEO Eric Schmidt in a Washington Post story from May 13 2005.
Where is the outrage as mainstream vendors acquire open source software firms
I am glad that some of my fellow ZDnet bloggers have caught up with this issue of Oracle buying up the open source movement. George Ou points to my Feb 16 post and references Dana Blankenhorn's Feb 17 and Feb 21 post.
Anti-censorship and anti-click fraud?
San Diego based Anonymizer is developing a technology to help Chinese internet users avoid the Chinese government's censorship efforts. It is a neat idea, however, it looks like it would make it nearly impossible to detech click-fraud--the practice of clicking on ads to make money.