Art Rosenberg’s thought piece Using Search Technology to Contact People is worth a read. He observes that business communications is composed of three main tasks: information access, business process transactions, and initiating / receiving contacts with people. Rosenberg posits that search will change the nature of last activity, just as it revolutionized information access. Naturally it’s bound to cause some friction, because without a mediating technology (think iotum) it makes the recipient of those requests far more open and accessible than ever before.Â
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
