Started reading Blink the other day… Through the first 4 chapters and still waiting for this “eureka”moment to hit… I get it that we can make very accurate decisions without 12 months of analysis… But still waiting for something other than, what to this point, are somewhat weak analogies… Should I keep reading, or is it more of the same throughout?
“Wow” is all I can say about the Social/Twitter generated campaign intended to get MSFT to change from using Word in Outlook… Prior to the onset of Social media was there any way to get a behemoth like the Redmond giant to react to user’s requests? Send an e-mail through the “contact us” link… call in to customer service… sign an online petition… Send feedback via the “tell MSFT” button… Let me know that last time any of those options got a response. Despite MSFT sticking to their guns on Word/Outlook, they responded in a big way… showing the power that Social media can have from a business standpoint…
Bing keeps surprising me… Saw a music documentary the other day on Fuse with some bands at Abbey Road… I didn’t know of the band they were showing but typed some of the lyrics into Bing… Came back with direct links to the band, but also had thumbnails of various videos there… and when you mouse over the videos, they actuall play the song… If Google does this already, it certainly hasn’t been that clear in the past…
This certainly has been the week or two of the “product release” in PLM… Siemens with Teamcenter and Tecnomatix… as well as Oracle and Dassault… with PTC doing so last week… No one is sitting still… Good.
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