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10.25.09Email archiving vendor claims that Gartner Magic Quadrant lacks legitimacy in US lawsuitGartner is defending a law suit in the US against a company that is challenging the legitimacy of its Magic Quadrant rating system. The company - ZL - has been listed in the 'niche' quadrant in every email archiving industry report since 2005. Gartner is arguing that the quadrant is 'clearly opinion'. More from ZDNet, including all legal submissions, here. This seems like a very long shot for ZL. The majority of vendors in their industry sector are ranked as 'niche' players. Here is the Email Archiving Magic Quadrant for 2009. ZL's is arguing that the quadrant favours large vendors but this seems ...
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10.24.09Alltop provides digital magazine rack for web content aggregationI just signed up for and created my own Alltop account. Alltop acts as a magazine rack for online content - it basically allows you to aggregate a large number of feeds on a wide range of topics. Users create their own customised magazine racks - my rack is focused on social media and technology related sites, mainly blogs. You can check it out at my.alltop.com/contactdjy. I have selected a small-ish number of feeds to get started. My one immediate complaint about my customised page is the poor presentation - headlines are very small and too much of the page is taken up ...
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09.09.09Google and Hasbro team up to offer Monopoly game via Google MapsAre you concerned about Google's market power? In recent years, there has been growing scrutiny of Google's market position with some arguing that it is now effectively a monopoly. Unfortunately, this can be the curse for the market leader as there are challenges in delineating between leadership and monopoly - a topic that I posted on here. I punched the keywords 'google' + 'monopoly' into Google Insights for Search. The following graph shows the interest in these terms over time: Google will announce Monopoly later today in the form of a tie up with Hasbro. Together the companies will create a live worldwide version of the classic board game using Google ...
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09.08.09From the handwritten journal to blogging to a continuous record of your lifeHumans seem to have an innate urge to chronicle their lives and experiences. From handwritten journals (think Samuel Pepys and the Fire of London) to blogging, Twitter and lifestreaming, its clear that writing about and recording life is an important aspect of our self realisation. Technology has dramatically improved and enhanced our ability to capture and relate events and developments. At some point the human brain will be integrated with technology. Lets imagine that the technology is a camera and a hard-drive. We'll effectively have a video recorder built into our heads with our eyes acting as the camera lense. You'd ...
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09.01.09My highlights from today’s Future of Influence Summit #foi09The ability to effectively filter information is a new 'literacy' that our society requires in order to sort the valuable information online from the crap. This Crap Detection was one of the opening gambits provided by Howard Rheingold during today's The Future of Influence Summit 2009. My firm - Burson-Marsteller - sponsored the Summit, which took place today in Sydney and San Francisco. The event is produced by The Insight Exchange and was chaired by Ross Dawson. The Summit covered a wide range of topics relating to the somewhat nebulous concept of Influence. It's really hard to summarise the findings or conclusions ...
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