Silicon Valley Has OCD

Blind to Folly Silicon Valley has OCD: obsessive cloud disorder. No jargon occupies the Silicon Valley lexicon more than cloud computing — except social media and mobile. Cloud has become an absolute obsession, and a ridiculous one at that. The danger with...

iBranding = iBlending = iBoring

When I took a typing class in highschool, my fellow students and I used typewriters with look-alike blank keys: it was incumbent on us to learn — without looking — the identity, purpose, and position of each key. Likewise, when learning to play musical...

Are You a Jargon Junkie?

The other day, I was discussing one of my pet peeves with a senior officer of a top global corporation: jargon-laced branding. I mentioned a few examples from techdom: Web 2.0, 3G, 4G, cloud, and SaaS. At this point, he sheepishly asked me, “Exactly what is a...

Bad Brands Bounce Sales

You’re an energetic sales rep, armed with product training and imbued with HQ’s brand du jour, sitting before your prospect. When asked to explain your company’s value proposition (brand), you reflexively blurt out the slogan affixed to your...

Apple’s Branding Blunder: iCloud

On June 6, 2011, Steve Jobs, emerging briefly from his medical leave, made a rare branding blunder in a product announcement: incorporating “cloud” in its name. Jobs heralded Apple’s free iCloud service, which allows users to store remotely their...
 

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