Archive for June, 2008

GlassDoor.com Company Ratings, Reviews, and Salaries

Remember the days of an HR administrative person who sent the spread sheet of the company payroll out to "All" at XYZ Company?  And remember the fuss about it all?  Well that day has evolved into a social network of sorts  Check out GlassDoor.com Company Ratings, Reviews, and Salaries….yup salaries.

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Identity Management Analysis – Are we there yet?

Most definately not.  This is a very brief snap shot of analysis at the current Burton Group Catalyst Conference North America 2008.
With over a decade of sustained development on identity management (IdM) technologies, the market is both flourishing and flailing. As IdM vendors swarm around the most lucrative IT projects, the demand for compliance software [...]

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Single Sign On Digital Identity Unique Identifier Basic Landscape

I wanted to see what the landscape was looking like for digital identity also known as unique identifiers and open id’s and single sign on and managing ones’ identity in a network filled world with several different protocols across several different devices and several different companies.
 
This post only scratches the surface and does not provide [...]

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Collaboration Tools on Steroids Cisco Telepresence ‘on-stage’ Holographic Video Conferencing

Cisco is pushing the envelope with a virtual real life experience in a corporate environment.  If you notice there is synching on the YouTube Video and less synching on the Eyeliner Video.  Next we will see it coming to small businesses and eventually to the consumer market.  The sky is the limit as far as [...]

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High Fuel Prices No Problem for Collaboration Tools Web Conferencing and Social Media

With the high price of fuel going up and up and budgets being constrained more and more business people are turning to web conferencing and collaboration tools.  Here is a recent video from the BBC talking about how Gensys Conferencing is addressing the issue.  While audio conferencing is highly popular there are communication limitations.  "They" [...]

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Wireless Social Networking to Generate Trillions?

This is what one research copmpany says.  $2.5 Trillion by 2020 with including products, services, applications, components and advertising.
Here are some amazing claims on the social networking space I found today in reading this press release by iSuppli Corporation (I like the name) iSuppli is a trusted provider of industry market intelligence and advice, affording [...]

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Peak Oil Will Change Everything for Everyone

Weather we like it or not here it comes.  A big ass Tsunami in many forms according to David Walker, US Comptroller General.  I don’t want to be a naysayer but we have to pay attention to this.  Check out this video on YouTube about Peak Oil.  Oil prices will become more volatile.  Our defecit will teeter [...]

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Baby Boomer Purchasing Influenced By Word of Mouth

"Word-of-mouth: Boomers participate in viral or word-of-mouth marketing as much as or more than younger age groups. Ninety-three percent of respondents were very or somewhat likely to share product information or news with friends."
As the article states "this is a big surprise" I think not, but it does reaffirm that we use other human beings [...]

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