Your email footer is ridiculous and is taking up valuable space on my screen. Your company legal department requires that its appended to every email. The IT department is automating the footer so you can’t do anything about it. I can delete it when I forward it to someone, then when they forward it and no one downstream knows about the disclaimer. How do you track all this, fact is you can’t. The company is trying to limit liability and comply with federal and international laws. Is this ever really enforced? Everyone does the email ‘disclaimer’, there are even websites dedicated to helping you understand why (?) < Email Disclaimer dot com >
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Cloud and Mobile = Perfect Synergies
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Would you ever put a cart before a horse? Would the “cloud” market be thriving without the drastic explosion of mobile computing?
My point is does it really matter whether the chicken or the egg came first? You can’t have chickens without eggs and without chickens you can not produce eggs. They are a complete synergy. Naturally you would not put a cart before a horse because the horse is needed to pull the cart. They also are a complete synergy. Just like cloud and mobile are a perfect synergy. My prediction is that interest in “cloud” would not be nearly what it is today without mobile. After-all, hosted applications have been around a long time. What’s new is that people can afford mobile devices for personal use, bandwidth is more available and the overall experience is much better than a few short years ago. Continue reading
