22 days ago
Linkorama : Why Many Social Software Projects Fail - Many social software projects fail because IT managers wrongly believe that successful communities form spontaneously after social software tools are installed, according to Gartner Inc. IT and business managers in charge of deploying social software need
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1 month ago
Linkorama : Getting good at screwing up - Like JP, I am not really sure what Enterprise 2.0 is, but if someone were to ask me, I would say that one of the secrets of Enterprise 2.0 is in being really good at failure.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : How I lost $20,000,000 in 18 months! - I learned a lot, made a lot of mistakes and ultimately became a better businessman and hopefully a better person as a result.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : 21 Great Technologies That Failed - The most innovative tech doesn't always succeed. Here we present 10 great technologies each from Apple and Microsoft that were simply too far ahead of their time.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Diary of a Failed Startup - I'm going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit's Law: "Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization".
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Linkorama : Most companies who try to do Enterprise 2.0 will fail - And it will be for these reasons in no particular order:
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4 month ago
Linkorama : The liberating effect of failure - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld knows failure. A professor at the Yale School of Management and founder of the non-profit Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Sonnenfeld has risen to leadership-guru status by becoming the expert on how CEOs stumble and bounce back.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Why Startups Fail - An entrepreneur recently asked me why startups fail. Startups fail because they run out of money.
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5 month ago
nelson : Xbox 360: 30% failure rate - My console died. Apparently that's not uncommon.
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Linkorama : The importance of pigheadedness - But we also need to recognise that the biggest speed bump in social software projects is invariably going to be the social, not the software. The technology is improving every month, mainly because it's being developed by small, nimble vendors who use the
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10 month ago
Linkorama : The major incidents on the internet in 2007 - Should have included the Estonia Cyberwar
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Failing Fast It's a good thing - I'm not sure its quite a good thing for a whole company. Otherwise, that would have been the story for Vista, eh? Besides, most of these stories are about how to succeed fast.
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14 month ago
nelson : Skype outage cause - Windows update causes reboots causes Skype overload
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15 month ago
deusx : OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan - American Grit - We can't fire the president right now, so we're waiting it out. - "President Bush was hired to know more than the people, to be told all the deep inside intelligence, all the facts Americans are not told, and do the right and smart thing in response."
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16 month ago
deusx : A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease - washingtonpost.com - It really seems like this article wants me to cry for poor lil confused and misunderstood Bush. You know, it pisses me off how "serene and calm" the bastard is. I have no sympathy for him.
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Innovation Ecosystem - What is happening in Europe that is enabling regions to start becoming low risk environments to do high risk things in, is the ascension of a class of entrepreneurs that have had success.
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Failing Cheaper - What has changed is that you can now fail faster and cheaper than ever before.
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24 month ago
deusx : The Unsolved Case Of Anthrax - washingtonpost.com - "It's been five years since the anthrax attacks shook our country and took the lives of five Americans. We cannot permit another five to pass before we close this chapter and prepare for the next one."
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24 month ago
jkottke : The story of Friendster's failure - The story of Friendster's failure. By way of illustration, the people involved all blame each other for the debacle. I've gotta say, I loved watching Friendster fail...they were the poster child for stupid dot com companies during a time when that crap wa
Linkorama : Wallflower at the Web Party - There is no single reason that explains Friendster’s failure...“It’s a power story,†he said. “It’s a status story. It’s an ego story.†But largely, he said, Friendster is a “very Silicon Valley st
Andy Baio : Wallflower at the Web Party - in-depth NYT profile on Jonathan Abrams and the demise of Friendster [via]
philgyford : Wallflower at the Web Party - New York Times - Why Friendster floundered. I love reading technology failure (or not quite success) stories. (via ChrisDodo)
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25 month ago
deusx : Best-Connected Were Sent to Rebuild Iraq - washingtonpost.com - "O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror?"
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27 month ago
deusx : Just a Bump in the Beltway: Losing the Right - "That's the record. That's the policy. A total failure."
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28 month ago
Linkorama : How Failure Breeds Success - "The performance culture really is in deep conflict with the learning culture," says Paul J. H. Schoemaker, CEO of consulting firm Decision Strategies International Inc. "It's an unusual executive who can balance these."
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