From the category archives:

Misc

Tibco’s Greg the Architect: ROI

November 25, 2008 Business

Now this is one of the better offbeat advertising campaigns I’ve seen for enterprise software:

Tibco, a major player in the SOA space, came up with the Greg the Architect campaign.  It’s a pretty funny look into the world of the IT foot soldier in a big company.  I particularly liked the episode I embedded above, [...]

Read the full article →

Been caught up with too many things on my plate, will return to regular blogging soon

October 22, 2008 Misc

It’s been a busy few weeks.  I’ll be back to posting on a regular basis soon.
Nitin

Read the full article →

James and Kevin join Om

July 23, 2008 Blogs

Image via CrunchBase

Wow, this is big. Small, but big. Last night Om Malik’s GigaOmni Media announced the acquisition of jkOnTheRun, which I believe is the premier gadget blog with an end user’s perspective. James Kendrick founded jkOnTheRun, and Kevin Tofel joined him over a year ago. This is really cool news [...]

Read the full article →

Ryan Block is moving on…

July 22, 2008 Blogs

Image via CrunchBase

Engadget, the standard bearer for blogging in general and especially gadget blogging, is losing it’s other founding editor, Ryan Block. Along with Peter Rojas, Ryan and the gadget-crazed writers at Engadget pushed the envelope for technology coverage like no one else has this decade. I briefly met both of them in [...]

Read the full article →

TechCrunch calls for the Firefox Tablet

July 21, 2008 Blogs

Image via Wikipedia

Although I’ve tried several attempts by Nokia and others, I haven’t seen the perfect ‘Firefox computer’ that TechCrunch has just challenged it’s community to build:
TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » The Techcrunch Web Tablet Project
Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device. This all stems back from [...]

Read the full article →

US Airways continues to lead in the race to the bottom

February 27, 2008 Travel

Image via Wikipedia
I just got an email from US Airways (really the old America West) that has this charming message:
Today, US Airways announced a change to our baggage policy. Beginning May 5, 2008, we’ll charge $25 for a second checked bag. As a Preferred member, you and anyone traveling on the same reservation, are exempt [...]

Read the full article →