Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use

An article by Dennis Howlett about Socialtext and Yammer yesterday caught my attention

In essence SocialText announces that they'll sell their product at 80% of Yammer's price (being very brief here) but I think they're both wrong

In retrospect 2000-2010: omphaloskepsis ruled

[Image courtesy of Ben Efros]

A conversation with Thierry de Baillon, a perfectly timed tweet from Brian Kenney and an absolutely great post by Vinnie Marchandani force me to write another post today

I best start with the wiki link to Omphaloskepsis - one down, two to go. Navel-gazing is a frequently used term here in NL to label people who aren't too preoccupied with the world around them, putting it nicely

The conversation with Thierry started with customer service, me stating that

@tdebaillon There's an inverse relationship between product margin and customer service - as illogical as that sounds

The evident relationship between solar and ice?

A (dutch) tweet from Martien de Laat this morning triggered my attention:

Of een elfstedentocht wordt verreden ligt aan de zonnecyclus Jaartallen onder foto: tochten! http://plixi.com/p/67879978 Opmerkelijk! #yam

It states that there is a relationship between the Elfstedentocht and solar cycles.
The Elfstedentocht ("Eleven Cities Tour"), a 200 kilometres skating competition, is held irregularly in the province of Friesland, Netherlands.
The solar cycle is the main source of the on average 11 year periodic solar variation which drives variations in space weather and weather on the ground