SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT investments

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Other investments

Other investments 12/17/2003 07:12 PM
Don't forget about the $100K check he wrote to help start some company a couple of guys were thinking about calling Google. Yeah ...

Why MSN is smarter than AOL

Why MSN is smarter than AOL 01/11/2004 10:28 PM
ZDNet Jan 11 2004 9:16PM ET

"One of us is smarter than all of us"

"One of us is smarter than all of us" 03/28/2005 03:18 PM

Buy smarter

Buy smarter 05/11/2004 11:56 AM
Computer Weekly May 11 2004 3:24PM GMT

Smarter Than the CEO

Smarter Than the CEO 05/31/2004 05:26 AM
Success, most corporations assume, depends on the efforts of a few superlative individuals. As a result, they treat their CEOs as superheroes. In doing so, firms are neglecting their most valuable resource: the collective intelligence of the organization as a whole. By James Surowiecki from Wired magazine.

Smarter Than Me

Smarter Than Me 12/29/2003 11:44 PM
Sometimes I'm accused of being "smart," which bothers me since I don't know what it means. It's a comparative label: if this one is smart, then others are equally smart, smarter, or less smart. Yet all generalizations are false, all comparisons fail. There's no way to measure these things, not really. It's a bogus idea. That's not exactly right. I quickly identify folks smarter than me, but it's not empirical, just a cocktail party chat I have with myself. Probably...

Investments in RSS Companies

Investments in RSS Companies 06/24/2004 05:04 AM
Ross notes that Newsgator got funded recently. There I noticed a trackback from rtwodtwo's posting: I never thought RSS programs would get VC’s cash. What do they think their exit will be? What revenue will this software have? Selling it to the warez loving public? Looking at its download.com count (<2000 downloads) the VC decision to invest looks very very strange. Well, I'm not sure what download.com has to do with this. RSS software isn't at the point yet where...

Keep your eye on govt investments

Keep your eye on govt investments 12/27/2004 06:44 AM
The Star Online Dec 27 2004 9:34AM GMT

Viaticals as Investments

Viaticals as Investments 08/16/2004 10:23 AM
Learn more before investing in viatical settlements -- they do have drawbacks.

Investments Up in Smoke

Investments Up in Smoke 04/30/2004 02:50 PM
Would you accept $800,000 to quit smoking?

Investments and perceptions

Investments and perceptions 08/27/2004 01:41 PM

When I look up Technorati on Technorati today, the top results (e.g. Michael Fioritto, paid Content, Om Malik, and John Battelle) carry news that we've received venture funding. Some of you may wonder why we generally don't bother talking about investment stuff. Isn't it news, after all?

Making a big deal about VC investments is unnecessary, it seems to me. One of the biggest reasons for the dot-com crash was an imbalance of attention: far too much on investments, and far too little on building real businesses with those investments. In a sane and sober business environment, the proper ratio should be completely customer-focused.

In our case, we're putting our investments to work building infrastructure and providing service to a population that's growing at an explosive rate. Frankly, we'd rather talk about that than about the money others have invested in us. Right now our staff is just thirteen people, all sprinting a marathon. As you probably know, our struggles have been no secret. My last two posts were about those problems and what we've done to get past them. We'll have more problems, I'm sure. (Esther Dyson says "Always make new mistakes.") But I also think we've made good progress, especially considering the steepness of the hill we've chosen to climb.

Perception is often a trailing indicator. That's how I regard remarks like Michael Fioritto's "Maybe now the site will start working, for a change..." That change came several weeks ago. Technorati's performance is far from ideal; but it is improving. Please keep banging on it and let us know how we're doing and what we can do better. That's the kind of investment that helps the most.

Cars as Investments

Cars as Investments 04/12/2004 02:20 PM
Don't count on becoming rich by buying cars -- they're not great money-makers.

spambots get smarter

spambots get smarter 01/06/2004 01:03 PM

Since today started as a "spam kind of day"...

Something I noticed over the last few weeks is that I've started to receive spam that is way more targeted than before. In what sense?

Well, let's say this: I'm getting spam that not only knows my full name, but also my address. Okay, not my current address, but I've already gotten spam that explictly mentions both my New York address (from 5+ years ago) and my SF Bay address (from 2+ years ago). This is bad, not only they know my email address, but they also know where I live(d)! Yes, we know that with time and money you can get a lot of information on anyone, but this has to be done automatically and massively, or otherwise it wouldn't be a practical option for spammers.

Clearly, one way this could happen is if someone (say, buy.com) has been selling their customer information. Since I usually take care of buying online only when my privacy is more or less protected, this is unlikely, though certainly possible.

There's a more likely way in which this connection was made: Google.

Google not only knows the web, it also knows other information... like phone numbers (at least in the US). Jon mentioned this some time ago.

A spambot to get "connected information" would work like this. Say you write an automated script to go through phone numbers on Google. Then the script takes the address data and the person's name, and then googles the person's name. It takes the first few results (or maybe only the first one) and scans the resulting pages to match an email's name to the person's name. Sure, this won't be 100% correct, but spammers don't care about that. And Google's reach makes it reasonable to think that you'd have a reasonably high hit rate. You could even write a program that uses the GoogleAPI for it.

Sure, we could say, as Scott McNealy does, that "you're privacy is gone, get over it". Even if you don't agree with that statement (and I don't, at least I want to resist it!), this is nevertheless disturbing. And the question that follows is: does Google have any responsibility for this? They'd probably say that they're providing a service by integrating yellow pages information, which would be true.

I'm not picking on Google, rather Google is the example here because of its reach and pervasiveness, but I'm sure that similar things can be done with other search engines and if not it won't be long before you can. Can we fix this at all? If so, how?

Since this is the tip of the iceberg, my main thought at the moment is that I'm a character from Lost in Space and all I hear is "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!".

Living Smarter

Living Smarter 06/05/2004 10:24 AM

Meta-Efficient points to ways to live your life using up fewer resources -- doing right by the planet, and yourself.

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter 03/22/2005 04:58 PM
Matt Neuburg (~210 words)

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter -- Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox has been upgraded to version 2.4. Tinderbox (see my review in TidBITS-651) is a superb way to create heavily hyperlinked text; text snippets are stored in a hierarchical structure and can be exported as Web pages. I used Tinderbox to create the online help for the Perl editor Affrus, which blogger John Gruber has called "the finest software documentation," in part because it is "cross-linked out the ying-yang." Tinderbox 2.4 makes outlines smarter by permitting any entry to have a rule for updating itself periodically; for example, if you're using Tinderbox to maintain a to-do list, a parent item (representing a category or group of tasks) might have a rule that its "completed" attribute should be true if and only if the "completed" attribute of all its children (the actual tasks) is true. There are also many small bug fixes and aesthetic tweaks, and Tinderbox's Web-page export continues to evolve strongly. Tinderbox runs in both the classic Mac OS (Mac OS 9.2 recommended) and Mac OS X 10.0 and later. Tinderbox costs $165, plus $70 annually for free updates. A demo version is available for download. [MAN]

VCs Distancing Themselves From Spyware
Investments

VCs Distancing Themselves From Spyware
Investments 06/17/2005 03:33 PM
A year ago, we were surprised that VCs would bother invest ing in spyware/adware companies when they were so universally hated -- which seemed like it would come back to bite them pretty badly. There were even VCs who went through convol uted arguments trying to define "good" and "bad" spyware companies to figure out who to invest in. In the past six months or so, something changed. Suddenly, the place to be investing was an ti-spyware companies, which meant that VCs were basically funding an industry based on wiping out an industry they had funded last year. This even resulted in a few situations where VCs had bets on both sides of the battle. However, with the shift to backing the anti-spyware side, something funny has happened. Almost no one associated with the most famous name in spyware, Claria, will admit to being involved with the company any more. The folks at Silicon Beat heard a rumor that Microsoft was trying to buy Claria -- a bizarre rumor, and one that was quickly denied. However, all of the VCs they tried to reach claimed their investments in Claria were a long time ago, and they had nothing to do with the company any more. The same could be said for the investment bankers who once tried to take the company public. It seems that all these folks who got blinded by the dollars, have finally realized that a business model based on tricking people and pissing them off probably isn't one that's worth being involved in. Not only that, but they're recognizing that it reflects very poorly on them for thinking it was a worthwhile investment in the first place.

Foreign Investments Increase 2.7 PC To
$142.46 Bn: IMF

Foreign Investments Increase 2.7 PC To
$142.46 Bn: IMF 02/15/2004 05:02 PM
Financial Express Feb 15 2004 9:40PM GMT

Top 200 co.s to expand facilities
investments by 30.5%

Top 200 co.s to expand facilities
investments by 30.5% 07/29/2004 08:17 AM
Maekyung Internet Jul 29 2004 12:02PM GMT

Infineon ups Asian investments

Infineon ups Asian investments 12/21/2003 08:29 AM
CNET Asia Dec 21 2003 7:36AM ET

First Impression: Concrete Investments

First Impression: Concrete Investments 03/14/2005 06:02 PM
"The days of funding just an idea are gone."

-Jason Caplain , Partner, Southern Capitol Ventures

Venture Capital Investments Stabilize

Venture Capital Investments Stabilize 04/27/2004 06:49 PM
Venture capitalists invested $4.6 billion during the first quarter as the once-staggering industry continued to regain its financial equilibrium, according to figures released Tuesday.

Microsoft boosts partner investments

Microsoft boosts partner investments 07/12/2004 10:41 AM
Company also reallocates one-third of its worldwide direct customer-marketing to joint-marketing with partners.

IT investments failing to provide
returns

IT investments failing to provide
returns 06/28/2004 08:32 AM

Intel's Digital Home Investments

Intel's Digital Home Investments 12/29/2004 04:39 PM
WebProNews Dec 29 2004 8:08PM GMT

Hutchison remains commited to 3G
investments

Hutchison remains commited to 3G
investments 06/04/2004 05:37 PM
PMN Publications Jun 4 2004 8:49PM GMT

Report: Banks to shift IT investments

Report: Banks to shift IT investments 01/23/2004 05:19 PM
Focus will be on improving CRM systems, satisfying regulatory requirements and improving business processes.

$5.3 bln of US venture capital
investments in Q4 2004

$5.3 bln of US venture capital
investments in Q4 2004 04/03/2005 07:58 AM
ZDNet Apr 3 2005 11:03AM GMT

VC investments in Silicon Valley rise

VC investments in Silicon Valley rise 01/28/2004 05:24 AM
NDTV Jan 28 2004 9:03AM GMT

IBM Q4 income up; Palmisano cites
investments

IBM Q4 income up; Palmisano cites
investments 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
The company's solid financial performance revolves around investments made during the economic downturn that helped position IBM for a rebound, Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano said.

Phishers using smarter hooks

Phishers using smarter hooks 04/20/2004 11:19 AM
Personal Computer World Apr 20 2004 3:20PM GMT

The Perils Of Ego Surfing: There Might
Be A Smarter You Out There

The Perils Of Ego Surfing: There Might
Be A Smarter You Out There 08/17/2004 05:32 AM
An LA Times reporter finally did what most people discovered long ago: the ability to search Google for your own name. However, he came to a horrifying realization: he wasn't the only Geoff Boucher. Even worse, in his opinion, it looked like the other Geoff Boucher might be smarter than he was. Once again, we discover the dangers of a combination of too much free time and Google.

E-mail viruses getting smarter

E-mail viruses getting smarter 08/18/2004 01:32 AM
CNET News.com Aug 18 2004 5:49AM GMT

Sleep makes you smarter!

Sleep makes you smarter! 01/22/2004 02:45 AM
An AP article says that the first "hard evidence supporting the common sense notion that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep" will be published in tomorrow's issue of Nature. Finally, proof that my nap habit is actually beneficial to my productivity! Link

Man smart, voter smarter

Man smart, voter smarter 05/15/2004 06:56 PM
Mid-Day Mumbai,India-3 hours ago ... They can just do a Google search right there in their own villages. ... They’re all too busy doing Google searches for Infosys results. ...

OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching

OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching 03/14/2005 04:50 PM
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ICT venture coaching just got smarter

ICT venture coaching just got smarter 05/12/2004 01:21 AM
Sunday Times South Africa May 12 2004 5:54AM GMT

New Cell Phones Smarter, More Fun

New Cell Phones Smarter, More Fun 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Record-breaking sales in 2002 put the cell-phone industry on top of the world. Manufacturers hope to stay there with a new crop of handsets that offer gaming, picture-taking, multimedia messaging and more. Elisa Batista reports from New Orleans.

Designing a Smarter Shoe

Designing a Smarter Shoe 05/05/2004 09:28 PM
Adidas's new shoe, named 1, is sleek and lightweight despite its battery-powered sensor, microprocessor and electric motor.

Smarter Content Publishing

Smarter Content Publishing 08/26/2002 12:34 PM

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