Not a Good Fit
I have to admit that I am not surprised that the Microsoft – Yahoo! deal fell through — in fact I thought it would. It is not the issue $33 per share or $37 per share. The issue is a mismatch in culture. I remember when Jerry Yang and David Filo, both Ph.D. candidates in […]
IBM Happenings: April 2008
It has been a busy week for me here in Los Angeles at the IBM Business Partner Leadership Conference learning about many new announcements from the company and getting to hear visionary guest speakers on a broad range of topics. More stories to come about this over the next few days and weeks. The whole […]
Yottabytes – Part 2
A reader of the story about the hospital SmartCard project asked me if the card could store an MRI. The short answer is no, not today, but in the long term, yes for sure. The most important short-term role for the smartcard is authentication. The best example to explain that is Clear. The Clear smartcard […]
Chocolate and Gum
In the story about the hospital SmartCard project, I made a reference to both Wrigley’s Gum and M&M Mars candy. Little did I know that a few days later would come an announcement that Mars Inc. — with some financial backing from billionaire Warren Buffett — is buying The Wrigley Company, the one-hundred year-old powerhouse […]
eLearning Guild AG08 Keynote
On April 16th, I gave a keynote at the eLearning Guild AG08 Annual Gathering where I talked about the future of the internet and implications for learning. Below is a video clip [6:31] of the address, and a mindmap of the presentation created by Clark Quinn who attended the keynote – click the image to […]
