On September 6th I posted a blog entitled “Staying current…”. I just started to watch Robert Scoble’s very well done vlog. For those of you who don’t know who Robert Scoble is??? Yes, these people do seem to exist, as bizzarre as this sounds… He is a pioneer in the blogsphere, one of the earliest bloggers at Microsoft to go counter cultural! While working as an technical evangelist Scoble maintained Scobleizer
In the Febuary 15th, 2005 issue of The Economist Scoble’s influence was depicted by this quote:
“He has become a minor celebrity among geeks worldwide, who read his blog religiously. Impressively, he has also succeeded where small armies of more conventional public-relations types have been failing abjectly for years: he has made Microsoft, with its history of monopolistic bullying, appear marginally but noticeably less evil to the outside world, and especially to the independent software developers that are his core audience”
Scoble’s honest unfiltered commentary left uncensored by Microsoft has actually helped better Microsoft’s reputation.
Anyway I am off on that censorship tangent again. Check out the vlog it is very well done and quite informative.
-RJB
October 9th, 2006 by rbocchinfuso Humorous
With blogs now being used as a pervasive guerilla marketing tactic we are all to aware that many of the blogs entering the blogsphere are doing so as corporate marketing machines (wolves in sheep’s clothing). The corporate undertones of many blogs is forcing bloggers to take harsher positions to ward of the stigma of corporate influence. I myself have had corporate lobbyists solicit me to change my tone or more closely tow the corporate line. Will corporate executives every really grasp the concept of a blog and what makes it valuable? The unbridled peer-to-peer communication with no censorship is what makes this medium valuable. Unadulterated opinions from real people with a real voice, a written journal of their thoughts and opinions, not corporate propaganda. Sometimes a bloggers opinions will parallel the popular opinion and other times it is going to ruffle feathers, this is what makes blogging so great. It is the “Naked Truth”.
Interested in your thoughts.
-RJB
October 9th, 2006 by rbocchinfuso Musings
This post is a bit behind considering Mark Lewis confirmed the acquisition of NearTek’s assets on September 20th, 2006 at the Storage World Conference in Boston. Nonetheless I thought I would post my thoughts on the acquisition. For those of you who don’t know who NearTek is they were a VTL startup who sucked up ~80 million in venture capital and built a decent product but failed to gain market traction. EMC is in a win/win position with this purchase but things look grim for FalconStor. EMC has be OEMing the FalconStor VTL code (cleaned up, modified and stabilized by EMC but at the most basic level FalconStor) as the CDL or CLARiiON Disk Library since April 2004. The best case scenario for FalconStor is that EMC continues to OEM their code and uses the threat of NearTek to purchase the FalconStor code at a lower cost. Worst case is EMC actually plans to replace FalconStor with NearTek in the CDL product line. EMC’s market share in the VTL space has grown from 4.6% in fall of 2004 to 17% in the spring of 2006, with this type of growth the loss of EMC as a FalconStor partner could have significant impact. Should be interesting to watch.
-RJB
