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Stupid Marketing Tricks

Another stupid idea that devalues the concept of social recommendations. If any of my friends sign up for this I am un-friending and un-following you. [ READ MORE ]

Apple Takes Lossless Audio CODEC Open Source

For all of those who demonize Apple as closed, remember this and WebKit. The code is available under an Apache license. The Apple Lossless Audio Codec project contains the sources for the ALAC encoder and decoder.  Also included is an example command line utility, called alacconvert, to read and write audio data to/from Core Audio Format [ READ MORE ]

Grandpa Box

Dilbert is still funny [ READ MORE ]

Part 2: Breaking Down Forrester’s Seven Pragmatic Steps to Improved Software Quality

Following my last post, I wanted to look at each of Forrester’s recommendations and add a little color commentary where I thought that they either don’t go far enough or have some gaps that you should not overlook. Improvement No. 1: Define Quality To Match Your Needs. When you read the headline, it sounds great. But [ READ MORE ]

Refections on Forrester’s 7 Steps to Improve SQA (Part 1 of 2)

Forrester’s Lisa Visitacion and Mike Gualtieri wrote an interesting report a few months back entitled “Seven Pragmatic Practices To Improve Software Quality” (subscription required). The crux of the report is that development teams are constantly and consistently under pressure to deliver software faster and therefore don’t have the time to implement a true best-in-class quality [ READ MORE ]

Switch + Linchpin: More than the Sum of their Parts

After having recently read Seth Godin’s Linchpin: Are You Indespensible, I’m just finishing up Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath.  Both books are great reads by themselves, but I think that adding them together makes a more powerful combination than they are separately. Godin sets a great vision [ READ MORE ]

Adobe Evangelist Blogger Breaks Communications Rules

I’m sure many of you saw the Mashable and TechCrunch posts about Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow’s latest post on the Flash Blog where he ends the post “Go screw yourself Apple.” As the Mashable piece states, it’s understandable that the folks at Adobe are hopping mad at the latest move by Apple which appears to [ READ MORE ]

Erply: Skype of Business Software? Is that Good?

In the post by TechCrunch’s Evelyn Rusli, introduces many to Erply a new firm that just raised $2M from some reputable sources and was a 2009 Seedcamp winner.  Apparently they have a number of customers and are profitable.  All good things and I look forward to seeing what they do in the future. But there was [ READ MORE ]

I Wonder What Benioff is Thinking about Google’s Apps Marketplace?

The march of the app stores continues, but this time for the enterprise, not the smartphone.  Earlier this week Google launched their Apps Marketplace to much fanfare with about 50 apps including Intuit, Concur, TripIt and Zoho and reportedly bigger players like Netsuite are on the way.  The App Marketplace provides very tight coupling with [ READ MORE ]

The iPad’s First Commerical

This was the only commercial that my wife and I actually watched as we sped thru the Oscars on DVR.  But I was very disappointed.  Apple advertising usually hits it out of the park, but in my opinion this had no impact. It didn’t spend time really communicating any of the capabilities of the device. [ READ MORE ]

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