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How to be an Expert in Absolutely Everything
Did you ever come across someone who seemed to know everything? An expert in not just one thing, but many things across different disciplines? Who not only stunned you with a wealth of trivia, but also...
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“I’m sorry, but I never signed up to be your customer”: when your supplier...
Fact of life in technology: smaller companies get acquired by large ones all the time. If, like me, you tend to favor best-of-breed solutions; where you’re an important customer to a medium sized...
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Streaming Video: Would you do a stop-over in Frankfurt, on a flight from...
Streaming video in the Middle East at a good quality, without buffering, is still much harder than it should be: there is no real central point in the region to serve everyone from, so in most cases...
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Managing Content in the Middle East
It’s been two years now since I graduated from being “regular visitor” to “permanent resident” in the Middle East. In the digital space, it’s an area of huge potential, and that’s of course what...
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“Visitors”: between Big Data and CRM
If you’re a media company, or a publisher, and you look at “Big Data”, chances are you’re not talking about something like the 25 Petabytes produced annually by the Large Hadron Collider. The visitors...
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Presentation: From Pages to People
At the end of June, I spent a few days in Basel, Switzerland at the Magnolia CMS Conference. In my presentation, in forty minutes, I tried to cover how a modern site needs to change from funnel to...
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The Problem with Hadoop
First, let’s be clear: I really like Hadoop, and not just because it’s named after a yellow toy elephant. But over the past few years, “Hadoop” has also become an almost mystical term, happily...
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How to be an Expert in Absolutely Everything
Did you ever come across someone who seemed to know everything? An expert in not just one thing, but many things across different disciplines? Who not only stunned you with a wealth of trivia, but also...
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Building for Failure
If you’re running an online business, it’s one of the worst things that can happen: your site could fail or your app could break. And you’ve probably heard of the famous Silicon Valley mantra “Fail...
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Social Media in One or Two Words
It’s an interesting question: what is social media, anyway, to a modern professional? As a hectic work week was dwindling to an end on Thursday afternoon (Dubai work weeks are Sunday to Thursday —...
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The difference between CMS and ECM
There’s a lot of alphabet soup in online and digital. One distinction that keeps confusing us is between CMS and ECM. What’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM)? How is it different from Content...
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“I’m sorry, but I never signed up to be your customer”: when your supplier...
Fact of life in technology: smaller companies get acquired by large ones all the time. If, like me, you tend to favor best-of-breed solutions; where you’re an important customer to a medium sized...
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Streaming Video: Would you do a stop-over in Frankfurt, on a flight from...
Streaming video in the Middle East at a good quality, without buffering, is still much harder than it should be: there is no real central point in the region to serve everyone from, so in most cases...
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MVPs, Achilles, and Conquering Product Launch Paralysis
Are you ever ready to launch a new product or service, or to set a new update free into the wild? After all the time and effort in brainstorming, planning, designing, and building, you have to decide...
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Why My Book Is Free
As you may have noticed (I hope), I wrote a book this year. It’s not an epic volume, more of a novella than a novel; except, of course, it’s entirely non-fictional. I’ve written analytical books...
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