http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/ Predictions on the future of technology through a broad and self-proclaimed humorous look at the applications, technology, and cast of characters that make up my daily technology life. en-US Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:30:25 -0600 http://www.typepad.com/ All audio blog content (c) Niel Robertson, 2006Niel,Robertson,,Parallax,,Newmerix,,SAP,,Oracle,,Microsoft,,PeopleSoft,,Packaged,Applicationsnielr@newmerix.comNiel RobertsonNiel RobertsonnoNiel,Robertson,,Parallax,,Newmerix,,SAP,,Oracle,,Microsoft,,PeopleSoft,,Packaged,ApplicationsThoughts on SAP, Oracle, and the future of Enterprise 2.0.Thoughts on SAP, Oracle, and the future of Enterprise 2.0.40.020885-105.296733http://parallax.blogs.com/http://parallax.blogs.com/dscf0033.jpgThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~3/5krq5sMiIQw/great-books-i-am-reading.html http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/10/great-books-i-am-reading.html Some random books that are informing my thinking these days: Jeff Howe, Crowdsourcing Stephen Baker, Numerati Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everyone John Winsor, SPARK!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~4/5krq5sMiIQw" height="1" width="1"/> Crowdsourcing Niel Robertson The Long Tail nielr@newmerix.com (Niel Robertson) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:30:25 -0600 http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/10/great-books-i-am-reading.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~3/7RoiwvSjX48/trada-customer-posterbrain.html http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/09/trada-customer-posterbrain.html Trada's rocking along and growing quickly. Just wanted to give some blog-love out to one of our customers: PosterBrain. Here's their blurb: www.PosterBrain.com is a local Boulder/Denver company that makes it addictively easy to turn any picture into a poster...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~4/7RoiwvSjX48" height="1" width="1"/> nielr@newmerix.com (Niel Robertson) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:04:11 -0600 http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/09/trada-customer-posterbrain.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~3/3ANHgYS-XTA/the-death-of-newspapers-and-the-rebirth-of-the-editor.html http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/08/the-death-of-newspapers-and-the-rebirth-of-the-editor.html TechCrunch had an interesting link today to this article written by a newspaper industry pundit on the "Link Economy". His basic point is that the value of inbound links to news sites is overshadowed by the ability of site scrapers...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~4/3ANHgYS-XTA" height="1" width="1"/> nielr@newmerix.com (Niel Robertson) Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:37:05 -0600 http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/08/the-death-of-newspapers-and-the-rebirth-of-the-editor.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~3/RdFousM3H40/techstars-global-domination-step-2.html http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/02/techstars-global-domination-step-2.html The very successful TechStars mentorship-based incubator program has spread its wings to Boston: http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=4714 Congratulations to Brad Feld, David Cohen, Jared Polis and all the mentors that have made Boulder's first version of this so successful.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~4/RdFousM3H40" height="1" width="1"/> nielr@newmerix.com (Niel Robertson) Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:41:25 -0700 http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/02/techstars-global-domination-step-2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~3/5BHwd1UXFWw/i-am-being-stalked-by-the-state-of-colorado.html http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/01/i-am-being-stalked-by-the-state-of-colorado.html Dear The State of Colorado, I'm starting to think you're stalking me. 4 times in the last 2 days (including right now, on the weekend) your automated dialing system has called me resulting in the following back and forth: IVR:...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~4/5BHwd1UXFWw" height="1" width="1"/> nielr@newmerix.com (Niel Robertson) Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:54:42 -0700 http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2009/01/i-am-being-stalked-by-the-state-of-colorado.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~3/wsj0krZIhMo/putting-the-cro.html http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2008/09/putting-the-cro.html In my recent post The Wisdom of Sales Crowds i talked, among other bigger things, about the idea of crowdsourcing your dating choices. It seems like the folks at SideTaker probably agree with me that crowdsourced dating is coming and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ParallaxCalculatingTechnologysFuture/~4/wsj0krZIhMo" height="1" width="1"/> Crowdsourcing nielr@newmerix.com (Niel Robertson) Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:45:56 -0600 http://parallax.blogs.com/parallax_calculating_tech/2008/09/putting-the-cro.html All audio blog content (c) Niel Robertson, 2006Niel Robertsonnonadult