Stowe Boyd
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Remote Work Update
Various news flashes from Slack, Microsoft, Scribd, Around, and Swit. “Remote Work Update” is published by Stowe Boyd in GigaOm. → Read More
Work Week
2020–02–10 | If anyone needed proof that IBM is out of step with the world, the quote below eliminates all doubt. This is crazy talk from the incoming CEO of IBM. Too early? Nine years after Amazon… → Read More
Benedict Evans on The Next Big Thing
I was wondering if the 63 pages of lead up would wind up with Benedict Evans suggesting AR goggles as the next big thing. And on page 64 he kind of says so. Everything after that page is about regulation, breaking up tech giants, etc. So he never resolves the question mark regarding AR glasses. PS Check out this post about Apple’s soon-to-be AR glasses. → Read More
Yet Another Google Chat Tool?
Google keeps tinkering with its chat strategy. Will this one stick? → Read More
2020–01–27 | Week at Work
This New York Startup Just Raised $25 Million To Challenge Atlassian | Alex Conrad reports on Clubhouse — a software management platform — that has pulled in $25 million in a series B funding round… → Read More
Welcome to the Post-Email Enterprise: what Skype Teams means in a Slack-centered World
Work technology vendors very commonly — for decades — have suggested that their shiny brand-new tools will deliver us from the tyranny of email. Today, we hear it from all sorts of tool vendors: * work management tools, like Asana, Wrike, and Trello, built on the bones of task manager with a layer of social communications grafted on top * work media tools, like Yammer, Jive, and the… → Read More
Work Processing: Coming soon to a ‘Doc’ near you
In June I wrote a piece on what I called ‘work processing’, where I explored some ideas about the use of new productivity apps, like Dropbox Pape... → Read More
Dropbox proactively asking users to reset old passwords
Dropbox users that haven’t updated their passwords prior to mid-2012 will prompted to change it when they next sign in. The company made this anno... → Read More
My Research Agenda for the Fall 2016 and a Call for Participation
After a few weeks of failed vacation — my attempts at unbroken away time kept surrendering to business-related meetings and travel — I’... → Read More
Marketing Goes Agile
Marketing teams are being forced to run at a new, faster pace, driven by the need to juggle a growing array of tools and technologies in an increasingly... → Read More
Logmein to acquire GoTo family of products from Citrix
Back in November, Citrix announced that it would spin out the GoTo family of products (see Citrix to spin out Goto products, will cut ‘investment’ in Podio). Today, the other shoe has fallen, with remote access software company LogMeIn announcing that it will acquire the kit-and-kaboodle from Citrix. The deal has been approved by both companies, and will be structured as a ‘reverse Morris Trust’… → Read More
2016 Work Management Narrative Baseline
1 Summary The 2016 Work Management Narrative Baseline provides an analysis into the drivers and diversity in the work technology that has come to be known as work management. After examining the trends driving adoption, and categorizing the various social groups that use such tools (‘tribes’), this report examines a broad sample of leading work management tools: Asana, Azendoo, Basecamp, Fleep,… → Read More
Apple services are growing, hardware slowing
Apple posted quarterly results, and received a standing ovation: the stock rose 7% at the opening this morning. What’s intriguing is that the numbers show lower sales of iPhone (down 15% compared to last year), Mac (down 10.5%), and iPad (down 8.3%). But Apple has pulled off some hand jive, and drawn attention to what may be the future of its growth engine: services. In the release, Luca Maestri… → Read More
What’s going on in Phoneland?
Connecting the dots on some news stories from Phoneland. First, the CEO of Ericsson has been sacked: > Vestberg’s departure caps a turbulent period for Ericsson, which is cutting jobs while battling fierce competition from from Huawei Technologies Co. and Nokia Oyj. The company said last week it would accelerate cost cuts after reporting four straight quarters disappointing revenue and profit.… → Read More
Slack invests in ecosystem of bot companies
Slack has announced $2 million in funding for bot startups in its Slack Fund, that has been passed out to 11 new companies and 3 existing investments. The list, as reported by Techcrunch: > Abacus is intelligent expense reporting software that brings report creation and approvals right into Slack. > Automat is making it easier for anyone to build a bot that passes the Turing Test. Automat is in… → Read More
Ran Zilca on Millennials Think About Work Too Much
Ran Zilca of Happify ran a study on Millennials that reveals them to be work-obsessed, bed-loving, and irreligious [emphasis mine]. > When asked what they are grateful for, people typically respond with the things they personally recognize as important — what they appreciate and value. Gratitude text can therefore provide a glimpse into the fundamental life priorities of individuals. In our… → Read More
Slack moves past slash commands to message buttons
Slack has announced a new mechanism for third party apps to better integrate with its work chat platform. Rather than relying on so-called ‘slash commands’ — like /trello add Taco Drone Delivery — and then sending subsequent messages to assign values to the metadata of that task, third party apps can be configured to present a UI much more like that in a native app, including buttons that can be… → Read More
Missive is social email with tasks
I have been using a new app for the past week or so, called Missive (missiveapp.com). When I first looked at the tool it was just a social email client, by which I mean a client for email that also support social communications extrinsic to email, but possibly about email. Here’s a screenshot: Above, on the left you see an email being edited — a reply to an email from Carlos Kelly — but on the… → Read More
Adrien Sommier and Amplement
I recently learned about Amplement, an intriguing tool for professionals to communicate and interact, with a clean and minimal design with features drawn from work chat, video chat, and professional networks. I had a chance to ask some questions of the founder, and I’m even more intrigued afterward. About Adrien Sommier Adrien Sommer Adrien founded France-based Amplement in 2010, and leads the… → Read More
Zenefits makes more cuts; Twitter Selfies; Dropbox profitable*
Zenefits, the online HR platform that ousted its founding CEO recently as a part of a regulatory investigation regarding insurance sales (where the company makes its money), has announced more layoffs, an additional 9% of the company’s workforce, around 100 people. 250 were cut in February, as part of a revamp of sales and operations, following David Sacks — the former CEO of Yammer — assuming… → Read More