Bullpen Bulletins

Executive perspectives on business interaction

This is a round table discussion that I moderated for the Economist Intelligence Unit. We explored how executives are handling effective communications in a globalized marketplace. I chatted with Joan Parsons, head of US Banking at Silicon Valley Bank and Morten Hansen, author and professor at UC Berkeley. Cisco was the sponsor.

Business leader insights into consumer-driven technology

This is a round table discussion I moderated for the Economist Intelligence Unit with Steve Ellis with Wells Fargo and Dr. Alan Weston with NASA. CA Technologies was the sponsor.

User interface and the network

This is the third of a three-part series that I hosted for the Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with Juniper Networks' NExTWORK program.

The third one entitled: INNOVATION IN USER INTERFACE is a conversation between myself, Bo Begole, Aza Raskin, and Tim Twerdahl.

How will we interface with the network as our physical and digital worlds converge?

Entertainment and the network

This is the second of a three-part series that I hosted for the Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with Juniper Networks' NExTWORK program.

The second one entitled: INNOVATION IN ENTERTAINMENT is a conversation between myself, Mark Cuban, Dermot McCormack, and Ben Huh.

How did the entertainment industry shape the Internet? … and vise versa?

 

Education and the network

This is the first of a three-part series that I hosted for the Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with Juniper Networks' NExTWORK program.

The first one entitled: INNOVATION IN EDUCATION - Lessons for enterprise

is a conversation between myself, Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Dr. Jill Tarter, and Salman Khan.

What lessons can enterprise and academia learn from each other?

 

Chat with Intuit CIO Ginny Lee - The Importance of Cloud

Intuit CIO Ginny Lee spoke with me at the SIIA All About the Cloud Conference about the important role cloud computing and mobile play in serving customers and enhancing Intuit's business. Here are the two segments I found most interesting.

Hijacked!!

Anyone reading this blog yesterday may have seen a subject line that read:

"my girlfriend's self-view video"

There was also a link inside that enticed people to see this video. Obviously, someone has hacked my account. The hacker also sent the link to my e-mail list. Thankfully, a guy named Dennis let me know about this blog post. (thanks Dennis)

My apologies to anyone who accidentally clicked on the link.

To the hacker or hackers out there... not cool guys.

<update> - Security software tells me the hack came from China on October 20.  Definitely not cool.

Agent of Change?

I had a conversation the other day with a writer colleague from another publication. He noted that as tech writers the only impact we truly have is with the PR agencies.

The vendors apparently care very little about who or what is being written about them.
He said the true change comes from within the company.
He now works for Microsoft as an evangelist, so I took that with a grain of salt.

But, does that mean the last 10 years have been for the amusement and entertainment of PR firms and not for the readers of my publications?

I'm Video Blogging on Internet Evolution

For the last week, I've been taping video segments as part of Internet Evolution's video blog series.

Expect to see more of these in the future:

From Internet Evolution 10/01/2009

EBay hired data mining expert Eric Brill as its vice president of research and applied science. What does this mean for business analytics?

Watch the video here...

'Brain'-Fueled Internet Could Change CIO Thinking

From Internet Evolution 9/21/2009

If the brain is a network of neurons and the Internet is a network of nodes, can we develop the Internet to be a brain? Well, evidence suggests the Internet is already a brain and we're in the process of developing it into something larger and more useful.

At least that's basic precept of a book I've been reading this past week, Wired for Thought, written by Jeffrey Stibel, in which he discusses the implications of the evolution of the Internet as a brain -- not as an evil overlord that will one day replace humans, but as a sympathetic, predictive, and well intentioned network designed around the concepts that we carry around in our own brains.

Please read the rest of the article.