I just booked my first flight with Ryanair. In January, I’ll be going to London for a day, so I was looking for an inexpensive trip there and back, preferably from Hamburg. Easyjet doesn’t fly from here to London, DBA and HLX both depart from here but don’t go to London, so I ended up [...]

I was just invited to join a Virtual Cocktail Party, as Jeff Pulver puts it. Through a number of referrals, I eventually got my invitation from my former META Group colleague Dave Yockelson. (Thanks, Dave, glad to have you back in the analyst rounds.) The idea of blog-tagging is, to ask 5 bloggers to [...]

What’s with all the 2.0-ishness that everybody jumps on as if their life depends on it? Maybe it’s all Tim O’Reilly’s fault, since he created this Web 2.0 buzz, although a 2.0 moniker has been around for years, such as in Business 2.0. More recently, companies on my radar also start to use the term [...]

I’m in Athens today to deliver presentations at our BI event, but I’m curious about this other meeting that runs in another room here at the Ledra. Is Microsoft going into the clothing business?
While we’re at it… I wonder how people book rooms using the URL on the shuttle bus. Unless I completely misunderstand top-level [...]