Michael Porter

OK, so I’ll admit first off that you really should ask more than 10 questions.  But you have to start somewhere.  Since a portal has the capacity to bring together so many moving parts, these questions can be quite broad.  So here are my top 10. How many people will be using the portal and […]

Christopher Monier blogs about a new iPhone ECG app that is something I don’t think I ever envisioned from a smartphone. The brilliance of the iPhoneECG is that, since it’s coupled to the one device people tend to bring everywhere, it dramatically increases the odds that a person who may be experiencing some abnormal heart […]

I like where Alinean is going with this article / white paper.    When Goldman Sachs invests $450 Million in facebook and thinks it’s a $500 Billion company. When MySpace is laying off employees. When you see a lot of articles about how to manage your social media, then you have to question what is the […]

Aaron Levie of box.net fame posted a really interesting article on that disruptive technology called the cloud. It’s on Techcrunch.  I’m starting to see this a lot in the portal and collaboration world.  You should read the entire article. It’s well worth it.  Also, I couldn’t resist the Dilbert cartoon. Cloud in the enterprise is […]

GateIn Portal 3.1 is built on the foundation for  JBoss’ Enterprise Portal Platform 5.  It runs on top of their solid JBoss Application Server and has a number of updates as they enhance the services provided by the base portal and by Exo’s content management platform.  It includes: Presentation Services with features like site creation […]

Alinean, an ROI and TCO research firm, just completed a study on which industries and companies were the most popular in social media and why.  Tom Pisello blogs about it. The findings highlight distinct differences in popularity based on company practices and customer profiles, with many companies and industries displaying an enormous leveraging of social […]

IBM announced that on December 17th they will release their Hypervisor edition.  It’s optimized to run on VMWare ESX and supports the Open Virtualization Framework (OVF).  IBM WebSphere Portal Server Hypervisor Edition V7.0 and IBM Lotus Web Content Management Hypervisor Edition V7.0 are special editions of IBM WebSphere Portal Server and IBM Lotus Web Content […]

Mashable.com has a post on a study done by Facebook intern Paul Butler.  It’s interesting to see how the world looks according to Facebook.  I think it’s also interesting to note that analyzing these relationships will become far more common.  Social Analytics is a nascent field but I don’t doubt we will see more.  Click […]

Mashable.com has a post on a study done by Facebook intern Paul Butler.  It’s interesting to see how the world looks according to Facebook.  I think it’s also interesting to note that analyzing these relationships will become far more common.  Social Analytics is a nascent field but I don’t doubt we will see more.  Click […]

One of the key trends you see within IBM is the concept of connectors.  You shouldn’t be forced to use a web interface to use a web based tool when you could connect to it from email, Office, Windows, and other platforms.   Suzanne Livingston on the Connections Blog just posted on the refresh of their […]

Since portals are very comfortable with the concept of extending a site using portlets, web parts, or widgets; having a portlet catalog or app store seems to be a no brainer.  I actually posted on this about a year and a half ago lamenting how poor the various vendors have done in giving solutions.  The […]

My original post on the top 5 people in a social software project seems to have gotten some attention.   A number of people tweeted on it and gave some initial feedback.  I want to address two items in the feedback since they have some merit. Who is valuable jasperdevalk on twitter noted that he would […]