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Sphere Leader Has Exited AOL–But Staying on as "Special" Venture Advisor
Tony Conrad, CEO and co-founder of Sphere–the contextually relevant content engine AOL bought in the spring of 2008 for upward of $25 million–left the Time Warner (TWX) online unit last month, several sources have told BoomTown in recent weeks. But, in an effort by AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong to hold onto entrepreneurial talent, Conrad (pictured [...]
Jan 10th, 2011 | Filed under News -
Straw Man Argument About Enterprise 2.0 Doesn’t Fly
Dennis Howlett got the attention of the Enterprise 2.0 community today, with his continued skepticism about “social” technologies and their place in the business world. Here’s a quote from his post entitled Enterprise 2.0 – the non-debate: “Why am I not surprised? I’ve argued for years that the notion of anything that has ‘social’ attached [...]
Jan 10th, 2011 | Filed under NewsTags: Big Lie, Breaking Wind, Burton Group, Business Users, Business World, Claims Processing, Dashboards, Dennis Howlett, Engineering Team, Erp Applications, Industry Analyst, Moniker, Profitable Business, Real Time Data, Sage Software, Services Group, Skepticism, Spacesuit, Straw Man Argument, Technology Company