Cheery Waves: Quote on Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer

All that money, and no far future strategy…. A former Microsoft exec, who has experienced C-level meetings with CEO Steve Ballmer, said he doesn’t think Microsoft would have bought Skype to help Facebook compete with Google. “Steve is one of the smartest people you’ll meet, processing-power smart,” he said. “But he’s not a complex multivariate …

Stephen E. Arnold : The Landscape of Enterprise Search

Stephen E. Arnold: The New Landscape of Enterprise Search. A Critical Review of the Market and Search Systems. Published by Pandia, Oslo, Norway, 2011. ISBN: 978-82-998676-0-3 Pandia Book Page The following enterprise search companies are covered in detail: Autonomy Endeca Exalead Google Search Solutions Microsoft and Fast Vivisimo   Phi Beta Iota:  For over fifteen …

Mark Zuckerberg: What To Do Once People Are Connected

Mark Zuckerberg Social networking is at “an inflection point,” Zuckerberg said. “When you think about what social networking meant for the last five or seven years, since Facebook has been around, the narrative has mostly been around connecting people,” he said. “Until the last couple of years, most people really had open questions about whether …

Tom Atlee: Global Interdependence Movements Et Al

GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS, DECLARATIONS AND DAYS by Tom Atlee It is so good to celebrate INdependence Days in the United States and the many other countries that have successfully gained and defended their independence from colonial rule. For countries as well as individuals, independence is a dramatic move from dependence into a more self-defined, self-created …