Tag Archives: Quora

January 18, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Microsoft and the Lack of Startup Cred

By Ben Kepes

The recent domain profiling of Y Combinator startups was interesting reading from a “how far ahead of corporate IT are startups when it comes to cloud services?” question, but also interesting was a look at Microsoft‘s performance among the companies. Startups are cool right? And large technology companies want to

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January 7, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Quora’s Uptake Velocity, and Unintended Consequences

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a few days thinking about the seemingly rapid rise of Q&A site Quora. While a great case study for the value that utilizing Cloud infrastructure can bring, my thoughts are more about the speed at which Quora seems to have become the property du jour. I only started

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January 6, 2011 Posted in Business 25 Comments

Gartner’s “Creative” Cloud Magic Quadrant – On Analysts, Cogitation and Vested Interests

By Ben Kepes

Earlier this week Dennis Howlett posted on ZDNet a fairly scathing attack on poor analysis and its creators – be  they traditional firms or people with a different approach. In his post (in which I came in for a lambasting myself) Howlett makes a call for a change in the

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