I just finished watching Charlie Rose’s interview of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on PBS. Most of the conversation focused on the Amazon Kindle, an amazing new device that embodies a vision to improve the act of reading. Kindle was the chosen product name specifically because it means to start a fire. The creative fires surrounding [...]
Entries from November 2007
A fire has started, indeed
November 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Books, Content management, Inspiration, Reading
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Prelude to a product offering
November 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Content management, Ideas, Inspiration, Services
Although I’m posting this today, I originally sent the following thoughts via email on 7/3/2002 to my GM at the time–subject “Preface for our 1-1 about future architecture (.NET & J2EE) - some (hopefully) thought-provoking analogies.” The email in its entirety (and unedited) follows.
At the time I sent my remarks I wouldn’t have thought [...]
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Wikify Documentum already
November 18th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Content management, DFS, Ideas
“The companies that figure out how to harness the power of open platforms while providing adequate incentives to all stakeholders are poised to reap great rewards.” -from Wikinomics
A few months ago, I blogged about this thought-provoking book. Around the same time I began to promote the idea of taking aspects of our product documentation (e.g. [...]
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Conversation in Monaco
November 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Content management, DFS, Inspiration
Today I had the privilege of talking about EMC Documentum Foundation Services (DFS) to roughly a 100 or so customers, partners and integrators at Momentum Europe 2007, held at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco. As promised, my slides are here, and the demo client in both Java and .NET (C#) can be downloaded via Zip archive here.
Before [...]
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Blue eyes, too
November 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Alas, the green colored streaks and lines are not Photoshop artifacts–my daughter thought she’d learn what green tastes like.
Blue eyes, too
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