Archive for March, 2007

What If Conventional Internet Marketing Wisdom Is Wrong?

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Intuitively, you already know most of it is wrong. You’re jaded enough to mistrust what seems like millions of online experts peddling ideas that prey on a simple truth.
Every business can use more effective marketing across all channels (not just online).
The paradox is that when you are small you need the most help when you [...]

American Honda Data Center Construction Underway

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Progress is evident on the eleven acre American Honda Data Center site in Longmont. A review of the City’s permits show The Crosby Group, Inc. filed the application consisting of one building totalling 60,700 square feet on the site to include office space and data center space. The Crosby Group is a Colorado-based architectural firm [...]

Has something taken over your e-mail form?

Friday, March 16th, 2007

E-mail form spam seems to be growing in popularity where automated programs fill out web e-mail contact forms. There are various opinions about why they do this including exploiting vulnerabilities for doing injection or using the form to send the spam directly.
However, for the cases I’ve inspected, I’ve observed that there is no injection attempt [...]

The Game is Called Connect The (unrelated?) Dots

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Cisco announced it will acquire WebEx for $3.2 billion dollars. Now it’s time to play the Connect the Dots game where everyone struggles to understand the deal on a number of levels and backs up the speculation with a series of dots (including unrelated dots) to bolster their thesis.
1. Did they pay too much?
2. Are [...]

No Love for NAC (Network Access Control)?

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

The main message of CIO Insight’s article is that NAC could require expensive network upgrades and is not ready for prime time. The market will ultimately decide if NAC makes an impact or falls back to earth failing to escape gravity.
Before deploying a NAC solution, ask yourself some questions to determine if you’ve even picked [...]

Big Blue’s Acquisitions will Continue

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Perhaps the most telling item in the 2006 IBM Annual Report is this simple statement:
“The company’s continued investments in Software have led to this segment’s emergence as a strong source of revenue growth and the largest contributor to the company’s profit in 2006.”
If you read carefully, you’ll learn that IBM spent $3.8 billion on [...]