“Over the next three years, social CRM will continue its exponential rise, software as a service (SaaS (News
- Alert)) will become routine, salesforce.com will reshuffle the market order, and consultants and system integrators will sell their own CRM software,” said Ed Thompson, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
The survey suggested that by 2013, spending on social software to support sales, marketing and customer service processes could exceed $1 billion globally. The $1 billion prediction for spending on social CRM compares with Gartner’s forecast of more than $12 billion for overall spending on CRM software in 2012, means that social CRM will encompass approximately 8 percent of all CRM spending in 2012, up from approximate 4 percent in 2010.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
CRM Software - #Social #CRM to Explode in the Immediate Future says Gartner Study #scrm
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Free Space Optics :: Technology
How it Works
FSO technology is surprisingly simple. It's based on connectivity between FSO-based optical wireless units, each consisting of an optical transceiver with a transmitter and a receiver to provide full-duplex (bi-directional) capability. Each optical wireless unit uses an optical source, plus a lens or telescope that transmits light through the atmosphere to another lens receiving the information. At this point, the receiving lens or telescope connects to a high-sensitivity receiver via
optical fiber.This FSO technology approach has a number of advantages:
- Requires no RF spectrum licensing.
- Is easily upgradeable, and its open interfaces support equipment from a variety of vendors, which helps enterprises and service providers protect their investment in embedded telecommunications infrastructures.
- Requires no security software upgrades.
- Is immune to radio frequency interference or saturation.
- Can be deployed behind windows, eliminating the need for costly rooftop rights.
FSO: Optical or Wireless?
Speed of fiber — flexibility of wireless.
Optical wireless, based on FSO-technology, is an outdoor wireless product category that provides the speed of fiber, with the flexibility of wireless. It enables optical transmission at speeds of up to 1.25 Gbps and, in the future, is capable of speeds of 10 Gbps using WDM. This is not possible with any fixed wireless or RF technology. Optical wireless also eliminates the need to buy expensive spectrum (it requires no FCC or municipal license approvals worldwide), which further distinguishes it from fixed wireless technologies. Moreover, FSO technology’s narrow beam transmission is typically two meters versus 20 meters and more for traditional, even newer radio-based technologies such as millimeter-wave radio. Optical wireless products' similarities with conventional wired optical solutions enable the seamless integration of access networks with optical core networks and helps to realize the vision of an
all-optical network.
Monday, February 7, 2011
It is the structure of social networks that shapes influence… and the structure is changing | Trends in the Living Networks
A recent great study by Yang and Leskowec at Stanford University titled Modeling Information Diffusion in Implicit Networks provides an underlying model and brings up some interesting findings
Source: Modeling Information Diffusion in Implicit NetworksFindings include that professional blogs are the most influential news media in sports and the second most influential media in politics and national news, while personal blogs are the most influential in entertainment and the second most influential in technology. In general the influence of blogs tends to decay more slowly than other media.
One of the most intersting conclusions is that the most visible agents may not be the most influential when it comes to “social ” phenomena such as hashtags.
“As the adoption of short, news-related textual phrases appears active users, each of which has relatively less influence. Moreover, we also observe that users with the most followers are not the most influential in propagating hashtags.”
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Turning 11110
ROCKET SURGEON'S WARNING:
- HIGHLY SARCASTIC CONTENT
- CONSULT AN ASTROPHYSICIST BEFORE READING
- CONTENTS SHOULD NOT BE USED TO CREATE PSYCH PROFILES (i will find you)
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The only reason why it's important to turn 30, is the fact that we have ten fingers.
Ten fingers give us the decimal system. If we had one less finger from each hand, I'd now be 36 (*1). If we had one more finger (*2), I'd turn 30 at an equivalent of 36 years in the decimal system. Weird. Weirder still, if we had somehow managed to survive with two stumps for hands -and no feet I assume, we'd be relying on the binary system in which case I'd be 11110.
I try to imagine what it would be like in a world where binary was the mainstream counting system. I wonder if that would have actually sped up the development of computers; you know, because we'd come to develop all the AND/OR gates sooner. I'm sure it would get really boring really fast to celebrate a "big" birthday every two years though.
But I digress.
Thank you all for all the birthday wishes. If all goes according to plan, this message will appear online publicly at 2011-02-03 23:59+02:00 and hence become a part of history.
never deleted;
constantly replicated;
cached;
indexed;
saved;
analyzed;
sorted;
linked;
ranked..
Anyway, what I'm trying to get to is that, if you still haven't wished me a happy birthday, I'm sorry..
You had a window of opportunity, where you could have become a part of something monumental. Something that you could tell your grandchildren about while they mocked the way you walk behind your back.
If you are one of these people, I forgive you. But god never will.. This day will eat at your conscience for the rest of your life.. Some of you can thank your inability to decode timezones (*3) to calculate for that, BUT I DON'T CARE!
For all practical purposes, you are dead to me.
For all theoretical purposes, I've killed you.
For all rhetorical purposes, "didn't I just kill you?"
For all realistic purposes, of course I'm joking..
(hey, it made me laugh..)
Seriously though..
(really? serious? we're doing this for real now? ok, if I say so..)
I love you all.
Statistically speaking, I can safely assume I've forgotten at least one of your birthdays. And I will most probably miss one in the future as well. I hope you are this full of love when I do.
[PAUSE FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT]
If we come to those who did congratulate me.. WOW.. well done you guys.. I love you all so much more that those other guys.. but don't tell them.. It will be our secret.
But OMG I got over 70 posts on my Facebook wall? I feel so popular. Regardless of the fact that I haven't spoken to that many people in real life in the past week; or past month, if you don't count cab drivers and the awkward nods you give people when you can't remember their name.
Like I said, regardless..
Here I am, ready/willing to abuse the once a year attention boost Facebook gives me. (Last year, I tried using it for a job hunt.. it didn't help. true story.)
If we haven't talked in a long time and you feel upset about it, please write about your emotions on a sandpaper with your bare finger -in blood of course. And mail it to the attention of Garry Busey, somewhere in the USA. Your feelings are important to me and Garry.
(You see what I did there? just blatantly threw myself back at sarcasm, that's how I roll.. defensive mechanism you say? I'll see you try to prove that in court..)
Anyway.. I haven't written anything this long and coherent (hey, this is as coherent as it gets for me) in a long time.. and I can't believe that I had the attention span to do it in a single sitting. (Mr. Howard, eat your heart out.)
Atta boy me.. Turnin' 11110 and bein' all serious n' shit..
Peace!
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1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_8
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
3: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
How 3M Gave Everyone Days Off and Created an Innovation Dynamo
Still, it’s a rare perk at most companies, technical or not. For starters, it’s expensive. 3M invests more than $1 billion in R&D alone; 15 percent of that starts to be a sizable outlay. Author Scott Berkun writes about business innovation. He says these policies only work when the outcomes are backed. “Many companies have tried to emulate the ‘20 percent time idea’ but failed because they remained conservative about supporting the new ideas,” he says. And experts agree that this kind of nudging probably works best at companies where there’s a high level of creative competitiveness; that is, where impressing peers is just as important as the innovation itself.
Some have tried to emulate 3M's program but failed because they wouldn't support the new ideas.
3M’s got that in spades. Once a year, about 200 employees from dozens of divisions make cardboard posters describing their 15 percent time project as if they were presenting volcano models at a middle school science fair. They stand up their poster, then hang out next to it, awaiting feedback, suggestions, and potential co-collaborators. Wayne Maurer is an R&D manager in 3M’s abrasives division and calls it a chance for people to unhinge their “inner geek.” He elaborates: “For technical people, it’s the most passionate and engaged event we have at 3M.”
via: fastcodesign
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along | Cracked.com
The Hyenas (The Lion King)
The "villain":
In one of Disney's finest rip-offs to date, The Lion King hyenas were the mangy lowlifes who tried to kill Simba, assisted in the assassination of Mufasa and utterly destroyed the Pride Lands after helping Scar take over as king. Jesus, what is those assholes' problem?
Hyenas, chief douchebags of the Serengeti.Hold on a minute there:
They want something to eat. That's their problem, and it's only a problem because Mufasa banished them from the Pride Land and forced them to live in an elephant graveyard, which is no place to raise a child, hyena or otherwise. We never know why they were banished to the Pride Slums, leaving us to assume Mufasa's unedited explaination of the Circle of Life went something like this:
Mufasa: Everything you see exists together, in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance, and respect all the creatures-- from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Simba: But Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become grass. And the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
Simba: Wow... Say, Dad, where do the hyenas fit into the great Circle of Life?
Mufasa: Ugh, the hyenas. No, f#@k those guys.
Simba: Yeah, that's fair.
That's the only way to explain how Scar got an entire army of these animals behind him with such dissident slogans as "Stick with me, and you will never go hungry again!" Scar wasn't promising them unlimited power, just the ability to eat and function as members of society. The hyenas were pissed because the oppressive lion regime had reduced them to second-class citizens, hoarding all the pie for themselves.
Hooray for racism!No wonder they followed Mufasa's brother. What Scar offered the hyenas was a revolution of the common man. He was more or less their four-legged Lenin.
