Quick Note: Gartner Data Center 2008

Just got back from the Gartner data center 2008 show.  Attendance was slightly down this year, but only by about 10 percent or so.  Not bad for the economy we’re in.  I’m going to be posting a lot more thoughts about the show over the next week, but one thing that really stood out was [...]

Newspapers: The End of Dailies

We’re seeing obits for the lowly newspaper now, most notably at ValleyWag and other places, especially since the recently-announced sale of all but three of its newspaper holdings.
The Austin American-Statesman, to which I am a daily subscriber, is among the papers included in the sale.  It has 925 employees and a circulation of 150,000.  I [...]

The Power of Facebook

I joined Facebook in late June, 2008.  Two months and 184 friends later, I am shocked and amazed at the power of this site.  It presents a profoundly different way to interact with people, and in many ways delivers on early predictions for what the Internet would become.
I worked in the Bay Area during the [...]

On “Mad Men” and Agency Change

The first episode of Mad Men’s season two aired last night on AMC.  I love this show.  It’s witty, smart, clever and has the right balance of drama and style that really can suck a person in to the point where they truly care about the characters involved. Everything about the show is superbly handled…particularly [...]

Off Topic: Batman The Dark Knight

I saw the new Batman film last night and frankly am still recovering from it.  This is an incredibly powerful and intense film – it grabs you in the first 10 minutes and will not let you catch your breath for two hours, and there’s still 30 minutes more to go.  It starts out meeting [...]

A Laptop Look Back

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Yikes

According to the Independent (UK newspaper) today, we could have no ice at the North Pole, as soon as this year.  Traveling across the pole in a boat in the open water?  What a scary thought.

HP + Oracle = Great Green Partner Marketing

Today’s press release: “HP Introduces World’s Fastest, Most Energy-efficient, 1-to-4-terabyte Offering for Oracle Optimized Warehouse.” Per my previoius post, this is exactly the kind of partner marketing that customers need to see to deliver tangible business results and be “green.”  It speaks to how customers think and shows how two companies together can solve their [...]

Developing An Eco-System For Green Tech

I haven’t seen this evangelized much, but there’s at least one dirty little secret in Green Marketing, particularly in Green Tech: your one widget, by itself, is not going to improve climate change in any appreciable fashion, nor are business customers likely to flock to your product because you tout its green benefits.  This is [...]

I joined Facebook

I can’t get over the power of Facebook.  Others had mentioned it, but I finally was pressured into joining by my old friends Alyson and Mary at dinner in San Francisco.  And I’m so incredibly pleased that I did it.   This is a fantastic way to reconnect with old friends and colleagues, many of whom [...]