Friday, April 02, 2010

Aweekstweets March 28 to April 2 2010: fooling teasing cooling podcasting defending photographing blogging tweeting haircutting facebooking consulting

Greenplum Chorus' teaser:"cloud, social collab, DW, analytics." SWAG: self-svc visual team-dev of MapReduce apps for rich-content analytics? 29 minutes ago via TweetDeck

#Greenplum "Chorus" (http://bit.ly/bF8HEt): JK--Hey Greenplum, what is this exactly? Press are starting to inquire. Brief analysts please! 38 minutes ago via TweetDeck

Cool. Twitter's browser interface now presents tiny pop-up profile when you mouse-over somebody's address in a tweet. Sweet! about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

RT @IntelligentEnt: Harnessing Real-time Process Analytics http://bit.ly/dt99zX: #forrester @passion4process et moi about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

Wrapped up eval of 19 CRM vendors today - Forrester team: @waband @bevelson @rbkarel @rwildeman @jameskobielus @cmooreforrester #CRM #SCRM about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Can't Stand It by Wilco #KEXP: JK--Good one from 1999. Wilco didn't start with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Must remind self. about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

"I forget: what's in-memory?" (http://bit.ly/crHTjB): JK--Another great one by @bevelson. Hi-perf analytics needs MPP memory virtualization. about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

Re "no no no" analytic databases. Blend of old+new platforms feels "long tail." No end-of-life-ing of legacy DBs. Virtualization uber alles! about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

So many irons in the fire. Might as well start a barbecue. about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

@nyuhanna Done! about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to nyuhanna

@merv What! No fangs Merv. Just me in shades. Only thing shady about the photo. Outdoors where I got sheared has brilliant sun today. about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to merv

Taking great briefing from #quantivo on their behavioral analytics-optimized SaaS-based cloud analytics database. about 3 hours ago via TweetDeck

Mid-day haircut on the deck under the big umbrella on a perfect spring day. Contours the cranium inside & out http://tweetphoto.com/16816629 about 4 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Typical Girls by The Slits #KEXP: JK--This song still amazes with its slant-wise lite-rock-reggae edgy bounce. Late 70s. about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck

Daily back-and-forth desktop rhythm: open up apps, windows, and tabs till clutter annoys me, then close most, repeat process, over&over about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @cdetzel: Just got off a call with a client that is working on a big #EDW / #BI Strategy for their #SmartGrid projects #EntArch about 5 hours ago via TweetDeck

"Forrester: SAP data management offerings not ideal in all environments" (http://bit.ly/9FYUpP): JK--Nothing's ideal in all environments. about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck

Interviewed on podcast by Craig Stedman of searchbusinessanalytics.com. Topic: advanced analytics. about 6 hours ago via TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Harnessing Real-time Process Analytics: Forrester Analyst Video Jam Session..." (http://bit.ly/9LzkBB) (http://bit.ly/cKc3rB) about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck

"Collapse of complex business models" @cshirky http://bit.ly/8ZmHGQ: JK--Productivity yield becomes 2 meager, admin overhead 2 burdensome. about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck

"Manure Raises New Stink" (http://bit.ly/czMoGL): JK--WSJ article that the late night comics ignore at their peril. about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck

RIP Jerry terHorst. Great guy, great reporter, took a great stand on principle. I interned under him in Detroit News Wash Bureau, summer '78 about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck

Rumor mining. Love to have a tool that filters the sediment from sentiment & precipitates the golden know-get. Powered entirely by hot air. about 24 hours ago via txt

@SethGrimes You know it. Interest in predictive everything a huge biz/IT priority. Cloud-y futures demand balls of crystal (and brass) 1:25 PM Apr 1st via TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

@toddbiske I thought it was "to peek a" little further and deeper into the big beautiful world of content, via Google's search engine. 1:23 PM Apr 1st via TweetDeck in reply to toddbiske

Facebook's now got more daily visitors than Google. Developments like this signal when the bloom's off the rose of yesterday's pretty flower 1:19 PM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Helping customer estimate ROI of engaging customers via social media. ROI calculators help ground trendy social #crm in payback terra firma. 1:18 PM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

merv That's what I've been informed. Thanks. 12:44 PM Apr 1st via TweetDeck in reply to merv

Pretentious lame-o job titles. "Futurist" & "humorist." Don't need 2 B great seer to tout self as former, or particularly funny 2 B latter. 12:43 PM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Pretentious job titles. "Futurist" & "humorist" another. Don't need 2 B great seer to tout self as former, or particularly funny 2 B latter 12:42 PM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Another obvious joke today, which i don't get. Google's calling itself "Topeka" (http://bit.ly/JZ7Jx) 12:33 PM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

We all know an unbalanced tweetstream profile when we see one: too many vague, context-free replies/retweets; few stand-alone observations. 11:53 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Getting ready for webinar I plan to do next month with Portrait Software, vendor in my recent #Forrester Wave on Pred Analytics/Data Mining 11:48 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Bloody Mary Morning by Willie Nelson #KEXP: JK--And Lord loves ya Willie, warts weed & all. 11:17 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Shout-out to Mr. Glenn Moon, Livonia Stevenson '76, fellow former member of Shoemaker's All-Stars. Lord loves ya Necco-man! 11:16 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Advice to vendors: Don't make an actual egregiously bodaciously important announcement on April 1. Wait a day at least. You know why. 11:14 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Drunk Girls by LCD Soundsystem #KEXP: JK--I recommend these guys for the great new year's party at the end of time. 10:57 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

RT @joeharris76: Broken Bells - The High Road http://bit.ly/aPfiND " JK--Song's in heavy rotation in my head, on my Zune. 10:38 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

April Fools jokes flop 4 same reason clowns not all that funny:U brace 4 "fooling" & "funning" hence more annoyed than amused by what comes 10:28 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Hey everybody, while we're on the subject, #Oracle has acquired everybody else in IT. You can all go home now. 10:20 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

OK everybody, mind the date. The @carterlusher post (http://bit.ly/4vYnbT) was an April Fool's joke. #Forrester HAS NOT been acquired! 10:18 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

#Forrester Analyst Jam Session: Harnessing Real-time Process Analytics" (http://bit.ly/bAnAJE). Me & @passion4process video podcast. 10:12 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Just took briefing from Fleet Risk Advisors, provider of sophisticated pred analytics tools 4 accident reduction in transport/logistics 9:32 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Slapping "social" in front of something means move toward user-generated content, side-to-side conversations, ad-hoc workflows predominating 7:53 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Example of April Fools joke that doesn't fool the foolish: http://bit.ly/bQhtOT 7:30 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Wow. I've seen innovation in analytics arena, but "mind-activated queries"? What's next? DW brain implants? http://bit.ly/aKLmsx #netezza 7:18 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: She by The Method Actors #KEXP: JK--Wow! Haven't heard this Athens GA group since bought vinyl fresh in 1980. B-52s w/grit 7:04 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Fools by The Dodos #KEXP: JK--I think this "Fools" was in a high-tech commercial. Intel? 7:02 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

April Fools jokes flop 4 same reason clowns not all that funny. U brace 4 "fooling" & "funning" hence more annoyed than amused by what comes 7:02 AM Apr 1st via TweetDeck

Hey cust svc ctr! Don't need your FAQs. Tell us your freq ANSWERED questions? Or frequently UNANSWERED questions? Dangerous acronym #crm 7:20 PM Mar 31st via txt

The Onion: True cool means not caring what others think. Worrying who follows your tweets? Uncool. Just plain tweeting. Tres cool! 4:03 PM Mar 31st via txt

The Onion: Lou Reed spent just $11 in 2009 trying to look cool, yet remains as cool as they come. Cool on the cheap = hypercool. 3:55 PM Mar 31st via txt

Always good to see cities demolish old stadiums. These are the most blindingly white elephants in the architected world. Civic eyesores. 2:57 PM Mar 31st via txt

The Falls Church News-Press is very liberal weekly. The Washington Examiner very right wing daily. Both R free. Should move to Falls Church. 1:13 PM Mar 31st via txt

Cherry blossoms are overrated. Cherries are underrated. PR problem, mostly. That "It's the pits" phrase has damaged their image. 12:28 PM Mar 31st via txt

@cselland #crm It can be inherently "social" if all that is delivered via social ntwk paradigm, and if "rep" is single social community 10:04 AM Mar 31st via TweetDeck in reply to cselland

#crm Singular customer service = single call, single agent, single session, single customer record, single version of truth. 9:36 AM Mar 31st via TweetDeck

RT @ashish_bhagwat "Verizon support..nobody has answer" JK--Here's "answer": they removed info from customer acct pages but didn't tell us 9:19 AM Mar 31st via TweetDeck

Here's issue with Verizon "support." Simple questions route u to multiple reps, u enter acct # over & over, waste time, nobody has answer. 9:06 AM Mar 31st via TweetDeck

I just realized why Facebook seems hyper-surreal. Not just people's portraits, but people from all aspects & phases of my life juxtaposed. 9:04 PM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

I just realized why Twitter feels hyper-real. People's portraits accompany their words. You don't get that with email, IM, or SMS. 9:01 PM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

Social network analysis in workplace: identify cliques, honchos, and unsung influencers. When influence a contagion with carriers. 3:58 PM Mar 30th via txt

Still looking for good cases studies of social network analysis in customer contact center, for #Forrester ITF preso. Know any? 3:51 PM Mar 30th via txt

Fleshed out #Forrester process analytics architecture: process dashboarding, process optimization engine, process discovery tools. 3:48 PM Mar 30th via txt

Please vote at "The Battle Of Partner Eco-Systems" (http://bit.ly/cy03VM) #forrester @hkisker 1:12 PM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

Every time I see a "let's lambaste Microsoft for Bob, yet again" story, I'd like to see equivalent story on Apple's flops: Lisa, Newton, etc 12:48 PM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

Strawberries. Somehow, seem like a vegetable that evolved sweetness and crossed over into the honorary fruit category. All berries, actually 11:34 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

Ends of quarters are intense. Especially if your head/projects are all pointing to the next quarter. 11:26 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

@alyswoodward Cool is normal when you're not concerned with being cool or normal. 11:17 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to alyswoodward

Caught Tom Petty & Heartbreakers "Mary Jane's Last Dance" on o-t-a radio (105.9fm) while lunch. First rocker of his I ever dug totally. 10:58 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

Cool to make steady progress: banging out slides for that preso, slides for this advisory, thoughts for inquiry..tweets...normal morning 10:17 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

@saileshkrish Don't quibble over DBMS species taxonomies: Siamese v Shorthair. Virtualize hissing field of felines into purring miracle. 10:00 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to saileshkrish

@CurtMonash I'm not responsible for how others choose to position & compress what I say. 9:30 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

@CurtMonash There too. I specifically state: "traditional, row-based, third-normal form, structured relational databases" 9:29 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

@CurtMonash Also notice that refer to "traditional weaknesses of relational databases" vs "non-traditional databases." Clear to most readers 9:27 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

@CurtMonash Umm, notice in http://bit.ly/bvSQAi that JK calls them "columnar relational databases." Pls read closely before tweeting. Thanks 9:22 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

@CurtMonash Avoid what error? What distinction are you trying to draw? 9:15 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

@CurtMonash "Relational" as shorthand in this context for row-based storage, 3NF. Don't read too much into it. 9:11 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

RT @kexpplaylist: Redemption Day by Johnny Cash #KEXP: JK--Let's admit it. Johnny left so beautifully, it's as if he still among us. 8:40 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

@Dana_Gardner Actually, I think second one is more along lines of "interface is the analytic"...possibly variant of "medium is the message"? 7:45 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to Dana_Gardner

@Dana_Gardner See http://bit.ly/doEtHx. I used a variant of the first. 7:43 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck in reply to Dana_Gardner

Nice to know my tweets from late last night, dead tired, from a waiting room, from my phone, actually read well the next morning. 7:42 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

3-30-10: A day when I contemplate the mathematical relationship among those number. 3-30-20-10: three, three times ten, two times ten, ten 7:40 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

Twitter's DM feature is a conduit for phishing attacks. They should let us turn it off. It's not essential to Twitter experience. 7:34 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Eye For An Eye by UNKLE #KEXP: JK--Great one from 2003. These guys sound like Talk Talk. 7:33 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

"Amazon To Combine Cloud Bandwidth Fees" (http://bit.ly/abbkn1): JK--Key step toward cloud EDW. Unified cloud I/O bandwidth price structure 7:27 AM Mar 30th via TweetDeck

Listening to Muse "Supermassive Black Hole." Thanks to Sonya Kobielus for the tip. These guys have solid sonic guitar thrust. 10:43 PM Mar 29th via txt

Listening to Morcheeba doing "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day." I miss Morcheeba. Awesomely singable pop classics of stylistic variety. 10:36 PM Mar 29th via txt

The unseen homicidal sniper in 2002's "Phone Booth" sounds like "2001"'s unseen homicidal computer. The former is idiot, the latter genius. 10:15 PM Mar 29th via txt

Yes I have a Seattle poem. Bing it. You'll see. 10:09 PM Mar 29th via txt

Looking forward to the TweetUp with Microsoft in Redmond the week after next. The moisture & soft green of Seattle springs spring internal. 10:07 PM Mar 29th via txt

Tough call, but I like Vaselines original of "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam" to Nirvana's unplugged. Girl's background vox adds grace note. 9:56 PM Mar 29th via txt

Wanna wish @drnatalie best in her next. Master James loves her. We'll always have Livonia. 9:43 PM Mar 29th via txt

Tweeting dilates time perception. Active ingredient: TwitterHeadCrunchitall. 9:30 PM Mar 29th via txt

Wondering if should rent ad space in next tweet to whoever can deliver steaming caffeinated beverage to my physical person in next 60 secs 9:26 PM Mar 29th via txt

Discovered that tossed salads topped with assortment of fresh sliced fruits eliminate need for salad dressing. Taste better, less filling. 9:22 PM Mar 29th via txt

Discovered that @passion4process & I share passion 4 #Enya. See jkobielus.blogspot.com last year 4 triple-haiku homage to Celtic chanteuse 9:18 PM Mar 29th via txt

ROI of social media. Try not to pick "winners" among Twitter & ilk. Individually, each'll blossom & wilt. But online society will endure. 9:12 PM Mar 29th via txt

ROI of social media. Do you calculate ROI of having an email system ? A website? An office telephone system? I thought so. 9:05 PM Mar 29th via txt

Calculating ROI on social media 4 customer lifecycle. Soon, social media will be integral to all CRM. ROI will B assumed, not calculated. 8:58 PM Mar 29th via txt

No perfect healthcare system. Dutch friends staying with us criticize its inflexibility. But not its universal coverage. 8:53 PM Mar 29th via txt

RT @GeorgeDearing "can't remember the last time I tagged something Web 2.0..for that term, check please" JK--Soon, "social ntwk" tag archaic 7:03 PM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

Stan Parris dies at 80. Good US congressman from northern VA. Republican. We have moderate, practical GOP, not grandstanding ideologues. 5:42 PM Mar 29th via txt

No one is bottomless well of work capacity. But well is deeper than u realize, an aquifer nourishing new shoots out of sight. Just look. 5:32 PM Mar 29th via txt

My goal isn't maximum influence, wealth, or friends. I live to milk the tangy pleasure of every word that comes to mind. 5:25 PM Mar 29th via txt

Senang baca majalah dalam bahasa Indonesia kalau kami mengunjungi ke Nusantara. Aku perlu belajar bahasa. Belum lancar. Otakku malas. 5:06 PM Mar 29th via txt

WashPost piece on anti-US/pro-China sentiment in Indonesia. Wait til state-run PRC econ slumps, per Japan. Jakarta's freer econ a key asset 5:02 PM Mar 29th via txt

Don't care about approval rating of Obama or any individual Dem. Main initiative is law. GOP can try later to roll it back, at their peril. 4:55 PM Mar 29th via txt

Being a source of complex interlinked assessments, my influence stems on ability to paint simple enough pictures to suggest vast vistas. 4:49 PM Mar 29th via txt

Being fixture in online influence economy, my stature depends on how long continue to stream thoughtful assessments. Shallowness sinks. 4:47 PM Mar 29th via txt

Reading WashPost article on online review sites & their sometimes bias toward advertisers. Tweeters being paid off too. Twitter-ola? 4:25 PM Mar 29th via txt

Wonder who finds time to listen to my podcasts. After hours now, listening to Ben Stiller, serious guy, being interviewed on NPR. 4:20 PM Mar 29th via txt

A relatively tweet-free day. Processing a major volume of tasks, concurrently, converging them to manageability. Like most days, actually. 3:32 PM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

Another day of multitasking, but single-focusing. 1:26 PM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

Another inquiry on real-time decisioning. It's also called decision automation. Check out my blog last month: http://bit.ly/bP3gdh 10:41 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Sweet Disposition by Temper Trap #KEXP: JK--A perfect moodsetter as I settle into the day. 8:25 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

Read read print print staple staple scribble scribble tweet tweet blog blog sing sing sip sip: another normal morning, as mornings go 8:24 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

I always write while listening to music. The best way to concentrate. Keeps my thinking-writing rhythm perking with flow of patterned sound. 8:21 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

My research has been linked to Wikipedia's data mining page at http://bit.ly/3mzJSl 7:50 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: The High Road by Broken Bells #KEXP: JK--Awesome album. James Mercer has done a Jack White: now has two great groups. 7:27 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

Coming and goings, goings and comings. Always a matter of recalculating one's workload on the fly. And just pushing it forward. 7:22 AM Mar 29th via TweetDeck

Actress Stephanie Courtney has Progressive-ly developed a 3-D fictional persona around a 1-D character. One spot Flo-s nicely into the next 9:30 AM Mar 28th via txt

My main beef with bios is that few include timeline. geo map, dramatis personae, photo gallery, or outline of subject's life. Confusing 9:20 AM Mar 28th via txt

Sunday morning. TV talking heads. Mostly political. Mostly just talking. No one diagramming or powerpointing to clarify positions