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Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • UGS Shape Search wins reader's choice award

    Thanks to the reader’s at DE for all the votes.  The recognition is appreciated! Desktop Engineering Magazine – November 2006 – Readers Choice Award

  • Some competition for Google spreadsheets?

    This is a really nice app and the guys at Google should take a look before they release their next rev.  I really like the graphing features, especially the fact that you can get a permalink to any completed graph.  Should make web based reporting, really easy. Online Spreadsheets – EditGrid

  • What will drive the tipping point for the 3D web

    Interesting post from Terra Nova about the key factors in what will drive massive adoption of the 3D experience on the web. It’s amazing to me (perhaps it shouldn’t be) how similar it is to the discussions in the 3D CAD world. First we need interoperability, then we need accessible tools, then we need a…

  • The virtual car show

    .!. GM is one of our biggest customers and this is one of the coolest things I have seen them do in a long time.  I have been thinking about the idea of the virtual car show for a while, and it looks like they may actually get there.  A few suggestions for them: Let…

  • Customer demo day

    I was out for a big customer demo day yesterday.  It has been a long time (3 years+) since I have gone to such an extensive and scripted demonstration of our products.  A few observations: Boogeyman hd We have some smart M*****F******’s working for us.  I thought I had a good handle on what we…

  • Another reason for me to move to Media Center

    brains-N-brawn.com

  • Entrepreneur secret sauce?

    I have developed an idea for a great business.  No I am not going to blog about my idea (not yet anyway…), but I am going to blog about the challenges I have faced so far and the one that is keeping me from moving forward.  At first, I pitched my idea to the company…

  • The paradox of innovation in the corporation

    I’ve spent a lot of time with customers this week at our European users group.  Its amazing to me all of the wonderfully interesting things that our customers are doing with our products.  It was also amazing to me how much the message of innovation has taken hold.  I guess the ‘stickiness’ of the innovation…

  • Do alliance managers have to be two-faced?

    I was sitting in an airport bar last week and struck up a conversation with the guy on the stool next two me. It turned out we both run the alliance teams for our particular companies, me in the PLM IT space, and him in the bio-medical space. After going through a few (very few)…