So this thing seems to be getting off to a good start. I know I’m just some dopey puppeteer, but the way I see it social media might have a chance of becoming interesting if the enterprise understands how to harness it and actually communicate with everyone in their network more efficiently and effectively. No [...]

Steve Gillmor Editor of Techcrunchit sits down with Sun CEO Jonathon Schwartz

What do the financial markets mean to the enterprise? Reduced spending across the board in all segments thats what. I have a feeling the “Cloud” guys are going to be out pitching hard in this climate.

Steve Gillmor lays into Sun. Full Article

As the slowdown begins to tickle the Internet economy, voices from unlikely places are grappling with the “opportunity” the possible worldwide depression presents for the tech industry. Steve Ballmer is on a barnstorming tour about Microsoft’s move into what he temporarily calls the Windows Cloud OS> IBM is busy opening 13 cloud computing centers around the world. And Jonathan Schwartz has slathered lipstick all over what purports to be an internal memo that he then decided to release as a blog post. My guess, jaundiced as it may be in the wake of a month of Palin/McCain bottom-is-up sideways speak, is that the memo was always designed primarily for the public.

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