Yearly Archives: 2008

Business Without Fear

Posted: 11:55 pm
February 7, 2008
IT Business
on Business Without Fear

Being a business owner can be an intense, scary, anxious lifestyle. It gets worse when you find out who your competitors are and when you look at what analysts predict your market to look like* (note to self: blog about … Continue reading →

When you’ve got nothing good to say…

Posted: 1:45 pm
February 7, 2008
IT Business
on When you’ve got nothing good to say…

Point to someone that does… The Killer Objection by Karl Palachuk I’ve said this a million times, there is only one proven sales strategy out there short of outright intimidation and its called “sold you a dream” – if you … Continue reading →

Microsoft blows the Zimbra Pig House

Posted: 12:31 am
February 6, 2008
Exchange, IT Business
on Microsoft blows the Zimbra Pig House

In another desperate Microsoft-bashing event, eWeek (surprise!) is predicting the end of Microsoft in a desperation move to buy Zimbra. Yeah. Forget the advertising. Forget IM share. Forget the webmail dominance in the consumer space.. It’s all about Zimbra.. Yeah. Sure. … Continue reading →

The Joy of Mailbombs

Posted: 8:59 am
February 5, 2008
ExchangeDefender
1 Comment

One of the coolest things you can do once you’ve built a really, really large network is to look at the network patterns that emerge, hour to hour, day to day. For example, every Monday at about 11 AM EST … Continue reading →

The Eve of Shockey Monkey

Posted: 5:21 pm
February 3, 2008
Shockey Monkey
4 Comments

It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly two years since I first shared the vision of Shockey Monkey, even harder to belive the amount of people and effort that went into building this beast. Tomorrow I get to … Continue reading →

Working with EU: Does location matter?

Posted: 1:22 am
February 3, 2008
Shockey Monkey
2 Comments

With the launch of SM 2.1 (yeah, yeah, looking forward, you’ll get the details on Monday folks!) and its commercial nature I have to cross the unglobalization bridge that the US has been burning and pissing on for quite some … Continue reading →

Poor Google?

Posted: 9:27 pm
February 2, 2008
Google
1 Comment

I’ve been watching the outrage over the Microsoft-4-Yahoo! bid with mild interest and surprise at the angle that the general blogging public has taken against Microsoft! If I didn’t know any better it would seem like Microsoft is this giant … Continue reading →

The only good thing about Microsoft buying Yahoo is the Microsoft Partner benefit

Posted: 6:20 pm
February 1, 2008
Microsoft
5 Comments

Microsoft has proposed an acquisition of Yahoo! and you can read the multitude of opinions at techmeme but I figured I’d offer you one more: The only side to benefit from the potential merger will be the Microsoft partner. Microsoft … Continue reading →

What is your biggest fear as the CEO of a software company?

Posted: 5:02 pm
January 31, 2008
IT Business
on What is your biggest fear as the CEO of a software company?

I got that question posed to me today in an entrepreneur interview for UCF. What I proceeded to say was a PG-13 rated response of tourette’s syndrome that most VARs, partners, techies and CIO’s spout about nearly every company they … Continue reading →

Figuring out naptime for programmers (and other DND tasks)

Posted: 6:54 am
January 31, 2008
Misc
7 Comments

I’ve been up since roughly 9 PM last night working on the Shockey Monkey service desk enhancements and so far the evening has been quite productive. I’d venture to guess that my output tonight has been greater than it has … Continue reading →