Archive for May, 2007
Let Freedom Ring
I was helping my son study this morning for his 5th grade test on the American revolution. (I always feel like I have to apologize to my British friends when I write about our country’s rebellious beginnings.) Nonetheless, one of the questions on his study guide was, “Who was Swamp Fox?” I laughed and immediately [...]
ThinkFiftyBucks would have worked for me…
Earlier in the year, ThinkFree offered bloggers a free version of its portable office software. I passed on that offer, but when it came around again last week, I said I’d give it a go. I remembered that Ismael Ghalimi has been a big fan of ThinkFree for a while now and thought I recalled [...]
The CEO Whisperers
During the 90s, when I was tracking the IT services market, there was a continuous blurring of roles and activity between Management Consulting firms, Strategy firms, and good ole’ IT services firms. IBM had IBM Consulting, CSC had CSC Index, EDS bought A.T. Kearney– throw in a few strong boutiques, and they all competed against [...]
THIS changes everything— Now it gets interesting.
5/18 OKAY. Just got a WSJ alert that Microsoft is buying aQuantive which owns Avenue A|Razorfish. More on this later. 5/20 Update: I was going to write a new post, but I didn’t want the headline I feel I must attribute to this acquisition to show up on feeds… which is this: It’s the People, [...]
Big Animal Pictures
Back in the stone ages, I had the good fortune to work on Madison Avenue before the digital age had arrived. One campaign I was working on was IBM’s launch of its long-awaited mid-range series, the AS400. We grappled with the positioning of the product and did focus group testing across the country. When it [...]
Wiki Witch of the East– C’est moi.
I fear a house will soon fall on me. I am finding myself increasingly frustrated when I can’t persuade non-e2.0 evangelists to use wikis. DEATH to group email is my new motto. Jeff Nolan wrote recently about how Workday had mimicked Apple’s fabulous spots for the Mac comparing the dweebish PC guy to the cool [...]
