Chris Lau
Chris held a number of IT-related positions over the past 10 years in banking, government, and in small businesses. He has experience in database design and administration but is a spreadsheet guru and all about numbers, formula and macros. He believes that Excel can support anything, including enterprise business requirements (albeit not effectively).
Homepage: http://twitter.com/chrispycrunch
Posts by Chris Lau
Is LinkedIn Worth 9 Billion Dollars?
May 19, 2011 - 5:40 pm
Tags: LinkedIn, social network
Posted in 4) Social Media Service, Misc | 1 comment
ZeroHedge is a prominent blog site in the blogsophere. Today, LinkedIn went public. The company, worth $4B in the morning, was worth double that value by the end of the day. The post deserves a re-post here for all blog idol contestants to read, comment, and perhaps write about. Here’s the story: Why LinkedIn Sucks [...]
Review: RIM Playbook
April 23, 2011 - 10:46 am
Tags: blackberry, html5, Playbook, research in motion, rim
Posted in 2) Strategies, 3) Tablets and Mobility, 4) Social Media Service, 5) Bring Your Own Technology, 6) Cloud Computing, Misc | 7 comments
After getting a Playbook early last week (thanks to the community support here) , I wondered what it would have been like to compete on blogidol this year if writing entries on a tablet. In addition to responding to topics posted by other competitors, responding to others’ posts, and trying to keep up with the level [...]
RIM Blackberry Launches Playbook Giveaway Contest on Twitter
April 13, 2011 - 12:36 pm
Tags: blackberry, research in motion, smartphone
Posted in 2) Strategies, 4) Social Media Service, 6) Cloud Computing, Misc | 6 comments
Greetings, blogidol contestants. Research in Motion this morning launched an usual contest on twitter, leading to the Playbook launch on April 19th. Is this advertising strategy bleeding edge, or viral? Blogidolers, be aware that this post will not count for ComputerWorld’s own blogidol.ca contest. I was last year’s winner, but this year’s judge. My contest [...]
About 10,000 followers on Twitter
May 11, 2010 - 6:25 pm
Tags: facebook, social networking
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives | No comments
Video about social networking.
Socialnomics
May 10, 2010 - 8:12 am
Tags: facebook, flickr, social network, socialnomics, youtube
Posted in Misc | No comments
Socialnomics (video)
Lessons for Bloggers vis-a-vis Financial Journalism
May 6, 2010 - 6:07 am
Tags: blogging, blogosphere, finance, newspaper, return on investment, ROI
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives, Misc | 3 comments
Bloggers in the field of IT and IT marketing can learn from the lessons of financial journalists in how to develop a successful blog.
Staying Relevant for all Things Enterprise IT
May 5, 2010 - 6:00 am
Tags: architecture, eam, enterprise IT, IT, pmi, pmp
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives, Misc | 2 comments
What was the key ingredient in successfully managing enterprise IT projects? It is more than Project Management. It involves Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM).
Notes on the HP acquisition of PALM
May 4, 2010 - 6:00 am
Tags: android, blackberry, google, HP, iPhone, palm, pixi, pixi plus, PixiPlus, pre, pre plus, PrePlus, research in motion, rim
Posted in Misc | No comments
The announcement on HP’s purchase of PALM was a surprise. Yet, the PALM purchase makes good sense. Will HP be able to Grow Palm? Will HP Succeed?
RIM BlackBerry OS 6.0 too Little, too Late?
May 2, 2010 - 11:17 am
Tags: blackberry, blackberry os 6.0, facebook, research in motion, rim, twitter, video, webkit, wes, wes 2010, Wes2010
Posted in Misc | No comments
RIM presented OS 6.0 at WES 2010. Is RIM’s Blackberry OS 6.0 too little, too late?
The Holy Grail to the Knowledge of Everything: Wolfram/Alpha
April 28, 2010 - 7:08 pm
Tags: mathematica, wolfram, wolfram alpha
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives, Misc | 8 comments
A discussion on the holy grail of the Knowledge of Everything. Is this SkyNet (The Terminator, 1984)?
The Case for Deleting My Facebook Account
April 25, 2010 - 9:30 pm
Tags: f8, facebook, personalization, privacy
Posted in Misc | 6 comments
If your privacy was violated by a system, would you still trust that system again even when those past assurances are once again violated?
The answer is ‘yes’ if you don’t value your privacy, and ‘no’ if you read on.
Office in the Cloud Showdown: Office Web Apps vs Google Docs
April 23, 2010 - 6:45 am
Tags: google, Microsoft, office
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives, Misc | 2 comments
Office 2010 is being released this week. Will its Office Web App beat Google’s Google Docs?
RIM: A Future Case Study on How to Fail in Product Development
April 21, 2010 - 6:30 pm
Tags: product development, research in motion, rim, smartphone
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives | 13 comments
This is a “future” case study on RIM’s development of a “hybrid” phone that will address the wants of its customers. This case study presupposes the fact that the new phone will be launched next week. In this entry, it will be argued that RIM should not read nor address the wish list of its customers or potential customers.
Microsoft Enterprise Solutions, Sneak Peak of Windows 7 Phone
April 19, 2010 - 8:10 pm
Tags: Microsoft, SharePoint, sql, windows 7 phone
Posted in Misc | 1 comment
Microsoft illustrates its IT solutions in Azure, SharePoint, Visual Studio, and SQL Server. Microsoft’s application development on the Windows 7 Phone was also demoed.
Twitter to sells Ads to pay the Bills
April 13, 2010 - 9:49 pm
Tags: apple, Bing, google, Microsoft, tweet, twitter
Posted in Blogging Idol 2010 Archives | No comments
Twitter began selling a service called Promoted Tweets today. Will it work? Will Twitter be Profitable?
