Startup Lifecycle a’la ABBA (Are We in a Bubble?)
Humor, Startups June 5th, 2011
No kidding… it all started with a tweet by Box Lead Magician Aaaron Levie:
@levie
We must be in a tech bubble given how much ABBA I’m listening to.
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My first though was:
@ZoliErdos
@levie As long as it’s not only Money Money Money 
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Then I had this crazy thought of trying to remember more ABBA titles… it took me about 3 minutes to see ABBA’s wisdom … LOL.. I mean to come up with a full startup lifecycle, purely based on ABBA titles:
Tags: bubble, CloudAve, entrepreneurship, Just for fun, music
KaaS: Kiss as a Service. Really. Really?
Humor May 3rd, 2011
If you think the guy above is slurping down a milk-shake, you’re wrong. Very, very wrong. He is French kissing teaching his computer and a remote device to French kiss. Here’s the formula of kissing digitized:
I can see unlimited prospects for a new Cloud-based Kiss as a Service, where you select your Kiss based on profiles. Perhaps even sample them first. iTunes will sell them for 99cents, until Amazon comes along with the 69c price:-)
OK, back to Earth. This is not a prank, it’s serious study conducted by researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. How long will it take for them to get to Third Base? (there’s nothing a straw hooked to a PC can’t do…).
But by then.. why bother… who needs feelings anyway? Let the machines make digital love to each other. 
Tags: CloudAve, Just for fun
… is to upgrade to IE9. No kidding:
It’s not even April 1st anymore…
Tags: advertising, CloudAve, internet explorer, Just for fun, microsoft
Variations on Hype Quadrants.. no Magic Hype… no, Hype Cycle.. or is it Magic Quadrant?
Humor April 1st, 2011
Gartner introduced their Real (Magic) Quadrant:
Not bad. But let’s not forget the customers’ prospective. Welcome to the Magik Kvadrant:
But perhaps most revealing is Phil Fersht’s Painsharing Paradox:
Tags: CloudAve, Gartner, gartner hype cycle, hype cycle, Just for fun, magic quadrant
Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets
Humor January 25th, 2011
Time Magazin’s Technology and Person of the Year: the iZuck
Humor December 16th, 2010
List, list…like I’ve said, it’s THAT time of the year. So let’s consolidate, where we can. Why bother having a separate Technology and Person of the year:
…when we can have it combined. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the iZuck:
Slim, portable, does not talk back
Tags: CloudAve, IPad, Just for fun
Unhyping Gartner’s Hype Cycle, Part 2.
Humor July 22nd, 2010
Here’s Part 1. The reason I’m doing it again is that Michael Krigsman just published the Wailgum Hype Cycle:
Not bad. Still a bit complex. Me thinks the simplified, geekified, scobleized, oprahized, too-oh-ized version of the Gartner Hype Cycle still works:
And if it doesn’t – well, it’s almost Friday. In fact for some of our readers it already is 
Tags: CloudAve, Gratner, Humor, hype cycle
That’s not Email
Humor July 11th, 2010
This Reminds Me of My Old Boss (Dilbert)
Humor, Personal Productivity July 6th, 2010
At least the ‘write down part’. His process for dealing with email was:
- Have Assistant print and fax email to whichever hotel he was staying in
- Make handwritten notations on fax, ask hotel to fax it back to his Assistant
- Assistant would then type it as email using his account
The whole process would take only 3 days or so …except when the fax had to be forwarded to another hotel since he had already moved on.
Oh, btw, he was a VP at a very big, very hi-tech company
Zoli Erdos
