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Stoicism Redux
Warning: what follows contains materials of philosophical nature that might offend religious readers. Such is not my intention, but reader care is advised. Also, the reason why such an article was published on a blog usually covering enterprise software and personal productivity is that it relates to a book that might be of interest to some readers of David Allen’s Getting Things Done, which itself was covered repeatedly on these pages. Subsequent writings on the subject will take place at ghalimi.name, which is a more appropriate venue for such topics. [Continue…]
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BuzzGain
One of the goals of our Dogfood Project is to automate our Public Relations process. In a PR 1.0 world, press releases would be sent to a handful of analysts and journalists from a Friends & Family list, and pushed on some wire service like PR Newswire. In today’s PR 2.0 world, this approach simply does not scale anymore, and we need something quite a bit more powerful. Here comes BuzzGain. [Continue…]
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A First Taste of Dogfood
Our Project Dogfood was launched just two weeks ago, but it’s running full speed ahead. Among the most active projects, the Customer Support Process lead by Gene Grell — Intalio’s new Director of Support — and the Marketing & Public Relations Process, which I am working on with Rick Geneva and Antoine Toulme. Here is a quick update on both, plus a really cool side project that emerged from one of them. [Continue…]
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Motivated Marketing Intern Available
From time to time, I use this blog to promote a cool product or service I came across, or help a friend out. Today, this friend is actually a family member: her name is Sarah, she is my younger sister, 25 year old, studying marketing and business administration at Audencia (one of the top management schools in France), and looking for a one-year internship to start in February or March 2009. [Continue…]
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Where is the Redux Model 1?
Earlier this week, Michael Arrington created quite a flurry of interest by announcing the TechCrunch Web Tablet. Of course, any resemblance with the Redux Model 1 is purely coincidental. Nevertheless, Michael and his team might learn a couple of things from our own experiment, started ten months ago. [Continue…]
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Happy New Year
Regular blogging to resume soon…
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Idea Exchange Rocks
A couple of weeks ago, I explained how Intalio is outsourcing its product management function to customers using a process we call Demand Driven Development. Following the release of this article, I have been exposed to the Idea Exchange, and must say that I am very impressed by the quality of the implementation that Salesforce.com developed for an idea quite similar to ours. [Continue…]
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Feed Update
When we upgraded IT|Redux to its new design, we made some changes to its RSS feed as well, and more changes might be made down the road. So, in order to avoid any service interruption, I strongly encourage you to check that your feed reader is using the correct feed URL. [Continue…]
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EveryTrail
From time to time, you stumble upon an new application that radically changes the way you look at things around you. Mosaic changed the way I look at computers, Google Earth the way I look at the world, and EveryTrail the way I look at my trips. Today, I had lunch with Joost Schreve, EveryTrail’s CEO, and got to use his application for one of my favorite activities: flying with friends in the San Francisco Bay Area. [Continue…]
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Contact Managers Roundup
Here is the third edition of our Weekly Office 2.0 Roundup. Today, we will review 4 contact management applications, from Big Contacts to Xing. We will identify some unique features that might help your own selection process, and you will get a chance to cast your vote for the best online contact management application. [Continue…]
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Who Are You?
On any given day, this modest blog receives about 500 visits, and is read by a little bit more than 500 subscribers to its feed. I get to know a few of my readers through the comments that are posted, and from the trackbacks that I gather using Technorati. For the rest of you, and you represent the vast majority of my readers, I have no idea of who you are. So how about you tell me? [Continue…]
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Inferences for ‘07
Last year’s inferences lead to an unexpectedly high 83% success rate. This will be hard to beat, especially because my new batch of nine inferences will be stated in more measurable ways, leaving little room for history rewriting. Let’s give it a shot anyway, and meet again on December 31st, 2007 for our yearly performance review. In the meantime, happy new year to all! [Continue…]
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Scorecard
364 days ago, I published my inferences for ‘06. A year has passed, and time has come to take a look back and see how good (or bad) I did back then. Tomorrow, I will publish a new batch, and review them a year from now. [Continue…]
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Improved LinkedIn User Interface
The LinkedIn social networking service recently improved its user interface, following a major overhaul released in March and described in this past article. Among other things, the new user interface adds a hierarchical Inbox, and improves the way profile updates are presented. [Continue…]
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I Need Feedback
As of today, IT|Redux has 415 subscribers, and a daily average of 355 visits and 880 pageviews, 44% of them by returning visitors. This makes for a regular readership of about 800 people. I estimate that about 100 people posted at least one of the 900+ comments that have been published on the blog, which means that I do not know who the 700 others are. I would love to hear from them, for it would help me better address your needs and expectations. [Continue…]
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In Search of Stickiness
Some web services have stickiness, others don’t. The first will draw users to make use of the service on a regular and voluntary (pull) basis. The second will get infrequent use, most of the time in response to external requests (push). If two services compete for the same audience, the one with the higher level of stickiness eventually wins against the other. This is especially true for services that rely on Metcalfe’s law in order to deliver value to their users, chiefs among them social networking services. [Continue…]
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Networking is an Art
As much as I like networking today, it is not something that came naturally to me. Instead, it took me quite some time to become comfortable with its basic principles. My education process included reading books, such as Keith Farrazzi’s Never Eat Alone and Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point, following Guy Kawasaki’s advice on The Art […]
New LinkedIn User Interface
Somehow, the LinkedIn user interface has always been quite confusing to me. I could never quite explain why, and a lot of users had similar complains, without being able to provide much more insight either. The good folks at LinkedIn diligently acknowledged the problem and came up with a brand new user interface recently. They […]
Things are Coming Together
Yesterday, someone reacted to my recent article covering jotForms and Wufoo, and asked me what the use could be for an online form builder that does not offer proper database support and integration capabilities. The short answer is: not much! But this should not let us discard such services right off the bat. Instead, I view them as fantastic proofs of concept that are demonstrating what Office 2.0 is capable of. Such attempts provide us with all the pieces we need, which we can then integrate into a broader framework. Initially, syndication interfaces and open APIs will let us build such mashups ourselves, but moving forward, most of the pieces will come together into unified platforms.
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The World is Flat
I just finished reading The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree. In his last book, Friedman identifies ten events and trends that are flattening the world we live in today. I agreed with most of the thesis, and tried to relate to it my own experience working at Intalio.