Last week, Mary Meeker revealed the newest in her annual Internet Trends reports, this one for 2014. The big news? Mobile and tablets. Mobile — Mobile phones are now in the hands… Read more »
IBM is involved in a major reboot of its positioning and architecture for work tech. The mail, chat, meetings, office tools, and content management have all been pulled under the IBM Connections… Read more »
I am attending IBM’s Connect conference in Orlando, and there’s some really interesting development work being demoed here, in particular a new take on enterprise email that might be the social… Read more »
I pinged Mike Barlett of Gitter, a GitHub-based chat tool, now in limited beta, and we chatted about the tool which is geared to use by developers. Gitter is a shining… Read more »
Hootsuite, the social media management company, has announced an integration of the Hootsuite dashboard with IBM Connections. This means that IBM Connections users will be able to see IBM Connections streams… Read more »
I want to talk about the role that social scale plays in organizations, especially in cultural change. But before doing that, I want complain about our language, which lacks some fairly… Read more »
In the early days of the web, one of my first areas of concentration was the rise of instant messaging tools like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ, and Jabber. In fact… Read more »
IBM posted their 2nd quarter results, and they are a stand-in for the broader market trends, since the company is the largest seller of IT to governments and corporations, worldwide. Revenue ($24.9… Read more »
I heard a lot about social email at the IBM Connect conference, but it’s not what I wrote about recently: Stowe Boyd, Somewhere, someone is building the successor to email, and it… Read more »
I had an interesting discussion with Mike Rhodin, IBM’s SVP Software Solutions Group, at the recent IBM Connections conference. Instead of focusing on products, we relatively quickly started to discuss social… Read more »