Cloud Talk

Every company on earth wants to do a better job at engaging customers and driving employee productivity. It's serious business for sure but the key to unlocking this may lie in something called gamification. According to Gartner, gamification is... Read More..

Beginning the year with top 10 (or 12) predictions is so... well, predictable. Not to mention, perhaps a little pretentious. So let's dispense with that charade and talk about what a new, emerging class of SaaS/cloud applications will look like.... Read More..

My last post covered the some challenges related to monitoring cloud applications. However, at the time, I offered no suggestions regarding tools that might help alleviate those problems. In this blog post, I'd like to draw attention to a... Read More..

Cloud application monitoring is the Rodney Dangerfield of cloud technologies - it gets no respect... but it ought to. Notice how much of the discussion around cloud computing is about how to design, build or deploy cloud applications. There... Read More..

If you're developing applications for the tablet market, until now, the conventional wisdom has been to develop for iOS and forget the rest. It makes complete sense when iPad traffic accounts for 97% of all tablet related Internet traffic in... Read More..

Last week's announcement of Apple's iCloud at the WWDC was notable in a couple of ways. First, Steve Jobs publicly relegating the Mac to just another device is remarkable. - "We're going to demote the PC and the Mac... Read More..

If you're selling anything - software, services, widgets - you are likely marketing online. If so, you are undoubtedly invested in web analytics - measuring the effectiveness of your marketing programs in terms of page views, unique visitors and... Read More..

It's not often that you'll hear a negative statement on the mass adoption of cloud computing (although here's one). However, when you do, much of the concern is typically centered around security. Yes, it's true that security concerns still loom... Read More..

If you think of Facebook as the most popular social network in the world, you're not thinking big enough. Check out this rather impressive infographic on Facebook (courtesy Online Schools) and it becomes apparent that for an increasing populace, Facebook... Read More..

Last Friday, I had the opportunity to hear fellow ebizQ blogger, Dion Hinchcliffe speak about the emergence of Social Business (a slightly unfortunate naming since it often gets confused with this). Dion presented a compelling picture for Social Business that... Read More..