Nice job, Dons! We made the list of Top 10 universities nationwide for Fulbright Scholars in 2009-10. The occasion provided USF with another excuse to post a stunning JP Allen photo on the newly designed website.
My upcoming faculty exchange to the Azores starts in April.
Tom Foremski at SiliconValleyWatcher did a nice writeup on our Kraków, Poland presentation. Hopefully, the momentum will continue to build for Kraków as a technology hub in Central and Eastern Europe.
As always, the Kraków slides are freely available online.
In other news, the online directory of Kraków IT companies started by Ramon Tancinco and myself is now available to the public. Incomplete as it is, it gives you a feel for how much is going on in Kraków.
Everyone with a computer science degree gets hit up for free tech support. Now, thanks to a column in the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times, my knowledge of tech help for neophytes is finally given its due.
The key observation here: Consumer Reports did a survey of how often people’s PC tech support questions were answered to their satisfaction.
Caring support from your local professor? One hundred and ten percent!
The rest of the economy may be going to hell, but American tech companies are still going strong. Last week’s article in Network World featured some of my thoughts on why tech is holding up, and whether we’re headed for a repeat of the early 2000′s recesssion that started the dot.com crash.
Why might this downturn different from the dot.com days? From the article:
“Back then, company value was based on the stock price and now it’s based on revenues,” Allen says. “We used to talk about the New Economy. Now it’s the Real Economy. . . . You see over and over again that the financial results in the tech industry are based in reality. They’re not based on speculation about share prices or hopes that you can monetize visitors to your Web site.”
I go on to talk about how Enterprise 2.0 and analytics are hot areas for investment growth, how the U.S. IT labor force is larger than its ever been in history (including during the dot.com days), and how there’s real money behind these trends. It sounds like the happy days might be here again. Or maybe today’s days are even better, because they’re no longer based on fantasy (except for the multi-billion dollar online role-playing games industry, of course…).
Network World 4/25/08: “No slowdown for U.S. tech industry”. Also published on CIO.com.
Last night, our local ABC 7 news featured my startling insights into the recent iPhone pricing uproar. When Apple dropped the price of an iPhone from $599 to $399 after only two months, even Apple’s crazed fanbase rebelled. The early adopters got labelled as “losers” (or worse) for buying too soon.
You can find the ABC7 news story and video clip here. If you’d like the whole story in higher resolution, there’s a link to a (large) movie file here.
Remember: when you do a media interview, they usually choose the juiciest soundbites…
Update: my clip went national today on Good Morning America and on the abcnews.com site. Story and video clip are available here.
The national story ran under the titilating title “$599 iPhone Buyers: Hipsters or ‘Losers’?” Where’d they get that word from?
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