Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
The gang at the Never Work Alone blog have a fantastic post describing some of the solutions to the Introverted IT / Extroverted Sales-Marketing integration issue.[here]
The best points:
When hiring, place a premium on being able to explain technical issues to users and determine whether they’ve mastered the material. Expect this to cost more.
Offer raises for [...]
In: RANTING
19 Oct 2005Seems there is an unannounced little issue sending mail from Comcast to Hotmail. [here]
I use a Web mail program; guess the twits at comcast think that everyone should be.
Technorati: hotmail, comcast, foobar
IceRocket: hotmail, comcast, foobar
The CTO of the blogosphere asks: What kind of software would you like developed?
Option 1: Build a product in 12 months that is simple and easy to use but only meets basic requirements. Upon completiion, this company will only fix bugs and provide minimal updates every six months; training through FAQs and some [...]
In: GrabPERF
16 Aug 2005In the GrabPERF system, all of the detail charts are built off of the raw data table. Now, for some insane reason, I was storing 50 days of raw data. The furthest back that any of the configured raw data graphs goes is 7 days.
I reset the data purge script to drop data older than [...]
In: smp
28 Jun 2005Geek News Central is reporting that their server is getting crushed with all the new iTunes 4.9 users. You had to know this would happen. People have heard the buzz and want to hear what it’s all about.
From a Web performance perspective, podcasts are hellish: large, uncompressible binary files. At least they are able to [...]
In: RANTING
27 May 2005This week, I had a conversation that included a discussion of whether Microsoft Office applications should be webified.
I think that this is the only way that MSFT is going to be able to get people to support a new version of their product. A web application running on an IIS server (you think they would [...]
In: smp
19 May 2005Over the last few days, there has been the start of Bzzzzz around the sneak peeks people are getting into the new Office 12 for Windows.
I haven’t read them. I don’t care. Guess I am a dinosaur.
On my work laptop, I am very happy with Office 11 (2003). My wife is very happy with Office [...]
In: smp
16 May 2005Predictive technologies are becoming recogmized as a very important comonent in any large information system. The data that these systems contain is useless, unless the patterns inside can be drawn out.
The Business Intelligence companies take these massive amount of existing data, crunch it, and find patterns within the data. Based on these patterns (or rules), [...]
In: RANTING
10 May 2005Oh look! Brand managers think that the Dinosaur campaign is a clear and concise way to break through the clutter…[here]
…and insult users who have a perfectly functional piece of software (Office 97, 2000, XP) by calling them dinosaurs.
Hugh is right: Branding is Dead
In: smp
2 May 2005The firm I work for is currently shopping around for a new PR agency. On Thursday of last week, we went over to one of the candidate firms to hear their approach and how they think they can help us.
35 slides. Densely packed. No information. All about what they have done, not how they think [...]