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Zukmo – Our Five Tech Predictions for 2012

Well, its the season for predictions and we are on time rolling out our Trend spotting dice for the new year 2012. I saw this list from IBM which predicts trends out for next 5 years !

With big blue on their side, who are we to dispute that call ? A lot more has been said from various quarters for sure by now, but we simply had to throw our hat in the ring and add our 5 cents on the tech sector. So, here are our top five spinners for 2012.

1. Our Business Edition scores with SMBRead the rest

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Amazing Rant on the Future by ex Apple UI designer

In our last post on “Why cloud the future of Dropbox and Evernote?”, our simple message was to  dump on certain media bombast projecting the future as a mere extension of current trends. We chose to share a video on Microsoft Vision 2019 that impressed in “Minority Report” style as an evolutionary leap into the future, good enough to shame the extrapolating bots.

Alas, things have prompted a relook on our choice since then. Not the message but just the particular example.

We happened to stumble upon an absolutely BRILLIANT, enlightening curve ball of a post by an ex-Apple UI wiz Bret Victor. … Read the rest

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Why Cloud the future of Dropbox and Evernote ?

Here at Zukmo HQ, we are happily jumping through hoops each day trying to solve the problem of information overload which will be an exponential bother in the future. However, the thing bothering us today is the information overload about that supposed future.

Recently we have been noticing online media outlets of certain stripes going viral with their semi promotional trend castings. Overwhelming our embedded tubes are glorified mirages of their slanted visions and thunderous sound bites from their decaying wisdom teeth. So, we decided to pull the wool over the crystal ball and tell it like it might be … Read the rest

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The Gartner Grind

Being an IT analyst is tough work! You need to stay awake through gigabytes of power-point every day.

Additionally, if the person making the presentation is a paying client who is launching a new product or service, you’ll typically also have a lot of polite moments where you go “Great Idea, but haven’t companies A, B, E & K done something somewhat similar before?”. Typically, the accompanying thought stream is “Yeah, Yeah, tell me something I don’t already know – so I can stop pretending to be excited

When we made an analyst/media briefing ppt for … Read the rest

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