Archive for July, 2006

Monday, July 31st, 2006

What IBM’s History Flow should be

IBM Research has built a history flow analyzing changes over time to a page in Wikipedia.  Something I  think is way more useful and way more educational is this time lapse video of a wiki page.  I get a much better qualitative understanding of how and what changes were made to the page, how long it […]

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Sunday, July 30th, 2006

IBM the world’s 3rd most valuable brand

http://bwnt.businessweek.com/brand/2006/ article summary and highlights
http://www.ourfishbowl.com/images/surveys/BGB06Report_072706.pdf full report [pdf]

IBM was ranked the worlds 3rd most valuable brand in the world.  That’s high praise from Business Week (it was actually a company called Interbrand that did the analysis for Business Week).  I’m concerned though that the list is far too stable.  The top 5 were unchanged from […]

2 Comments » - Posted in General by Greg

Friday, July 28th, 2006

IBM Recent Events

There has been a lot going on in the IBM world the past few months that we’ve been down.  I wanted to summarize broader things if only becasue they’ve hit my radar. As a quick overview of some things that caught my eye:

Earnings are up, share price is down
IBM handling CVS HR is a great step […]

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Friday, July 28th, 2006

IBMeye Reloaded

IBMeye is back online, as of today with a new author.  My name is Greg Stierle and I am excited to finally get going.  I’ve had some issues finding the right host and getting a theme going, but all seems well now.  I intend to further customize this theme in the coming days and weeks.  […]

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