Simplifying the Gartner Hype Cycle – 2.0 Style
Enterprise Software, Humor August 26th, 2009
Fellow Enterprise Irregular Vinnie Mirchandani did a good job of un-hyping the Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies.
He points out some inconsistencies comparing this year’s chart to the 2007 version. He should know, he is a Gartner Alumnus himself. But I’ve been wondering if there was a way to further simplify it, i.e. make it digestible to average folks like yours truly .. and I’ve just found it.
Ladies and Gentlemen, here’s the simplified, scobleized, oprahized, too-oh-ized version of the Gartner Hype Cycle:
Courtesy of Geek & Poke.
(Cross-posted @ CloudAve)
Tags: analysts, Gartner, gartner hype cycle, Humor, oprah, scoble, web 2.0
Ballmer for President
Humor May 24th, 2008
Dan Farber calls Steve Ballmer a flip-flopper for casually re-evaluating his pursuit of Yahoo during a speech in Moscow:
“Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business…We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with 50 billion dollars.”
This Eastern-European tour didn’t start quite well for Ballmer, who received the egg-treatment in Budapest, but now it may just take a positive turn. After all, being a certified flip-flopper qualifies him as a Candidate for President (not of Microsoft, but the USA). He needs a new job anyway, now that Scoble is about to take over at Microsoft.
Update: OK, so he’s late to run. I hear there will soon be another vacancy he can apply for…
Tags: ballmer, microhoo, microscoble, microsoft, scoble
MicroScoble: Scoble to Become Microsoft CEO
Humor May 19th, 2008
While outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is being egged in Budapest Fake Steve Jobs is already running a poll to find his replacement. Ex-Microsoftie, current Uber-Blogger Robert Scoble seems to have a solid lead:
Congrat’s, MicroScoble! 
Update: Robert did not hesitate to declare his first move as CEO: Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed.
Tags: ballmer, budapest, facebook, fake steve jobs, fsj, Humor, microscoble, microsoft, scoble, scobleizer
Naked Buddies @ FastCompany
Blogging, Marketing / PR January 28th, 2008
Naked Conversations co-authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel are finally co-working again, as video-bloggers @ FastCompany TV. Shel’s show will be GlobalNeighbourhoods TV (GNTV), while Robert’s is – what else? – Scoble TV.
Congrat’s and have fun! (naked or clothed
).
P.S. On second thought, if they plan to do a lot of Naked business together, they might invite the CEO if Zivity.
Update (1/30): Robert posted the same pic explaining that they were NOT naked. Of course not! I remember, as I was there, at the 5th TechCrunch party, which became the Naked Conversations launch party. So it’s a promo shot at a promo party – and hey, there is strong symbolism in the title, the co-authors did not get undressed just for fun (or who knows?
). They are the Naked Buddies – as in co-authors of Naked Conversations.
Tags: Blogging, fastcompany, naked conversations, scoble, scobleizer, shel israel, video blogging
Zoli Erdos
