Rob’s Digital Life

Chris Anderson (author of the long tail) has written a post on his view of the CIO’s and their relevance moving forward.
This follows on from a post I wrote back in May 2004, “Will we need IT support in the future?” which was prompted from reading Peter Cochrane’s post “Are IT departments doomed”.
But I still [...]

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off to Frankfurt for a couple of days tomorrow lunch time. We’ve got our quarterly alliance meeting with AT&T covering the quarters operational issues and issues specific to Germany this quarter, hence the trip to Frankfurt.
Flying Lufthansa out of Manchester, not flown with them before, so it’s another carrier I can tick off the list.

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I splashed out on another gadget yesterday, slightly behind the crowd on this one as it was the hot Christmas present of 2006, but hey, can’t always be first.
Anyway, I’ve only just regained my calmness as the software supplied with the device is very very poor.
The install app still has the name of the company [...]

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Josh is currently enjoying his fifteen minutes of fame and manages to make the state papers.
Nice going Josh!

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The MyBlogLog Blog has a post on the recent spam activity. I got spammed too, I still haven’t checked out whether I got auto added or not yet…yikes.
Technorati Tags: MyBlogLog, Spam

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YES..
I saw this question, or a version of it, in an email today, we’re trying to renew a large contract and somebody had written that ‘networking wasn’t a core competency’
This drove me a little nuts, sure Networking is a core competency, how else do they think all the servers talk to each other?
Networking is a [...]

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I’m sorry Robert, but you’ve just become like any other tech blogger out there.
I think you’ve lost the usp that made me want to read your blog. You blog had weight when you were at MS, I don’t think it has the same ‘weight’ now.
When you were at Microsoft it was really cool to see [...]

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Yep I got this too.
I just ignored it, having read this post, maybe I should check it out to make sure I haven’t been auto-added.
Technorati Tags: MyBlogLog, Spam

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managed to find some time to have a very quick look at Yahoo Pipes. It looks really simple to set up and use. I don’t have any real need or maybe just haven’t had the time to think of a search in anger that could really test it..but it looks really cool.
 
Technorati Tags: Yahoo, [...]

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Just reading my Business2.0 mag online and they had a feature on this startup Jaiku and it’s presence streaming…really really cool…but only Nokia phones at the mo.

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woot…I got the unlimited data anytime enabled on my account!
So as soon as my next billing data clicks over, I’ve got 24/7 unlimited data access on Orange for £8 on top of my bill.
It’s capped at 4gb a month, but that’s plenty.
I’ll only use it for push email and if I can get Orb working [...]

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Jason has this video of the new features of WM6

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Following on from my last post, all the interesting VoIP start ups are listed here  [via]

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Yep and he’s right.
But it will have a very small impact.
For the impact to grow the mobile needs to get smarter. ‘Smart phone’ are only a small part of the huge Mobile phone market, so out of those small number of smart phones, only a small number of people bother with VoIP.
The apps such as [...]

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