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  • Moving up the Stack–VMware and the Software World

    June 19, 2012

    Business
    Cloudfoundry, opensource, OpenStack, Platform as a service, sliderocket, SpringSource, TriCipher, VMware
     

    Summary – Another long post so here’s a summary. Infrastructure will become commoditized and because of this VMware is moving up the stack. Ecosystem partners involved with CloudFoundry are best to partner with multiple PaaS vendors rather than CloudFoundry…

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  • Socialcast Goes Free to Increase Adoption

    June 6, 2012

    Business
    sliderocket, Social collaboration, Social enterprise, Social network, Socialcast, Tim Young, VMware
     

    There are a number of vendors trying to determine the best way to increase adoption for enterprise social tools – but no one has yet found a more compelling proposition than giving a product away for free. It’s a…

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  • About Cloud. And SaaS. And How “Big Apps” Will Always Stay Local

    October 13, 2011

    Business
    adobe, cloud computing, google docs, microsoft office, Photoshop, Prezi, sliderocket, Software as a Service, Zoho Docs
     

    I’ve been doing this whole SaaS thing for a few years now, and fondly remember at the start when people said that only the most svelte of applications (or, more correctly, the applications with the most svelte of payloads)…

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  • VisualBees–Trying to Automate Creativity

    October 3, 2011

    Business
    Creativity, Microsoft PowerPoint, Presentation, Prezi, sliderocket, SlideShare, VisualBee
     

    Like many people in the technology industry, I’m regularly tasked with creating and delivering presentations – it’s something I really enjoy – spreading the message of cloud to the world. One of the things I don’t especially enjoy however…

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  • VMware Getting Seriously SaaSy. And PaaSy. And IaaSy. Dang, They Do the Entire Stack Now

    May 17, 2011

    Business
    google, opensource, sliderocket, VMware
     

    The announcements are coming thick and fast for VMware – once pigeonholed as a provider of core infrastructure tools, they’ve rapidly been building a portfolio hat sees them offer tools at all levels of the stack. Let’s recap on…

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  • Downstream Effects–The Salesforce Mafia

    May 6, 2011

    Business
    BrightEdge, cloud computing, PayPal, Salesforce.com, sliderocket, VMware
     

    We often here about the alumni from companies like Google and PayPal, and the startups they’re involved in – indeed it seems that having one of these elite put their name to a startup holds a cachet similar to…

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  • SlideRocket Provides Inspiration for New Users

    February 8, 2011

    Business
    Microsoft PowerPoint, sliderocket
     

    Sometimes vendors need to do the heavy lifting for users in order to encourage adoption. This is especially so in situations where vendors are trying to disrupt an existing market player. Case in point: SlideRocket, the presentation application that…

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  • SlideRocket Goes Mobile with HTML5

    November 16, 2010

    Business
    Adobe Flash, sliderocket
     

    SlideRocket, the online presentation company that seeks to break organizations out of the PowerPoint gridlock, today released its HTML5 mobile presentation players. I’ve spent lots of time talking with SlideRocket CEO Chuck Dietrich so appreciate what a big deal…

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  • Sliderocket – Doing for Presentations what Blogging has Done for Media (Trolls Included)

    October 5, 2010

    Business
    Chuck Dietrich, sliderocket
     

    I’ve written many times in the past about Sliderocket – the company that is reinventing presentations for a live, on-demand and insight driven world. Sliderocket is a cutting edge content creation tool, a useful asset store, and an analytics…

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  • Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, what were you thinking?

    July 26, 2008

    Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
    Facebook, sarah lacy, sliderocket
     

    I like Sarah Lacy, I kind of felt for her when she was torn apart for her interview of Facebook founder mark Zuckerberg last year. True she came across that time as something of a sycophant – but she…

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