The Critical Path

So what if we could use sheep to calculate popularity? What if we could throw all that cool data into an OLAP cube and mash it up with job, skills and interests? Then we could identify the most popular people within a given area of influence . . . .

New Year. New Start. At least I’m sure that’s what I said to myself last year when I declared email bankruptcy and started again. It’s always hard to stay on top. Regardless of your job eventually “stuff” sneaks up on you, and if you’re not prepared wait you could find yourself quickly sinking under the weight.

“Guessing Twitter’s financial prospects has been a favorite Silicon Valley parlour game, given its rapid growth and status as the new “It” company” says Wired magazine.

Thanks for reading – Have a happy festive season and a great new year.

Following some of my recent experiences in “the cloud” I want to extend an invitation to any business or bloggers to submit content for a “Cloud Computing” carnival month on my blog.

Woo hoo – Wordpress 2.9 is in the shops and looking very cool.

The CRM market is huge and the recruitment space a notoriously difficult one to fill. The following 5 companies would be on my shortlist.

I was going to write a huge complimentary article about the amazing Cloudforce 2 event in London until I realised it had been the best sales pitch I have ever witnessed. Period.

“The market for BPM-related tools and services is one of the fastest-growing in IT, Companies have been focused on understanding and improving their business processes since the days of Adam Smith and F.W. Taylor”

“A whole new computing paradigm” Marc Benihoff