Expedia, Yahoo, Amazon are already customers and ClearSlide received $11 million in series A funding led by Greylock Partners in September of last year. “When we looked at the market, all the investment in the space has been in CRM. There’s really nothing for sales to help them communicate with customers. The result?

Email this via Yahoo! In academic libraries, there are usually so many levels of priorities. There are the priorities of the university. There are the priorities of the library. Each unit probably has its own priorities, as does each individual. However, it’s not always easy for the library to support all of those university priorities.

The remarkable news today that, among other important board moves, Ross Levinsohn will take over as interim CEO at Yahoo may well mark the end of an era – should his tenure stick, perhaps we can stop talking about the web pioneer in past or conditional tenses. Media/Tech Business Models Yahoo ross levinsohn web 2 sumit

Email this via Yahoo! So many of us struggle with determining priorities in teaching. Few of us have a workload that would allow us to do everything we would like to do. and we think: wow, I’d love to do that. But can we? And then that goes to the broad vs. deep argument. Neither option is particularly satisfying. Is a deeper (embedded?)

Email this via Yahoo! Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of working at Portland State. I’d wanted to write a post yesterday reflecting on it, but I was driving three hours (to Bend, OR) to give a four-hour preconference. didn’t leave for a promotion. left because I was looking for new challenges. And I have gotten a lot done.

Email this via Yahoo! You know you’re a real blogger when, no matter how absurdly busy the rest of your life is, the thing you can’t do that you miss the most is blogging. It’s been a crazy almost two months and isn’t looking to get any better in the near future. The lovely Megan Oakleaf was the PI. say no) next year.

At Signal SF, we have an extraordinary lineup of speakers from both the platform world (LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft) as well as from independent publishers and service providers (Federated Media, Girl’s Gone Child, Automattic, Lijit). PS, I have ten, and only ten, half price tickets available. So here goes.

At Signal SF, we have an extraordinary lineup of speakers from both the platform world (LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft) as well as from independent publishers and service providers (Federated Media, Girl’s Gone Child, Automattic, Lijit). PS, I have ten, and only ten, half price tickets available. ” ).

He’s always a fun interview, and usually shares very candid opinions of other players in the Internet ecosystem (he was a top executive at Yahoo and Warner Brothers prior to joining LinkedIn). Quick, what’s LinkedIn? If you’re like me, the first thing that comes to mind is “a professional social network.”

In fact, it’s only been done a few times – by Facebook, Google, and arguably Overture (before Yahoo’s purchase and subsequent deal with Microsoft). Last week I wrote a post about Neal Mohan , who will be joining us for this month’s Signal conference in San Francisco. That’s no easy feat.

Dave Rogers, managing editor of Yahoo Kids. Pew Internet & American Life Project’s latest study on the future of the internet examines how young people will be affected by technology. They do not suffer notable cognitive shortcomings as they multitask and cycle quickly through personal- and work-related tasks. Marjory S. Naturally.

Personal tools lead to practical business Flash analysis: the future of Yahoo Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce. Contact management startup Xobni has raised a $10 million round of funding, according to an SEC filing. That brings total funding to $42 million , according to Crunchbase.

Those include Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, Adam Bain, President of Revenue at Twitter, Neal Mohan, who leads Google’s ad products, and Ross Levinsohn, who runs Yahoo! Over at the FM blog , I just posted the draft agenda for the first of five conferences I’ll be chairing as part of my day job at Federated Media.

Email this via Yahoo! I remember when I was in library school, a lot of people talked about librarians who were resistant to change and would try to derail your exciting and innovative projects. Why do people resist change? There are lots and lots of reasons, many of which have nothing to do with being a “stick in the mud.”

And from what I can tell, Apple uses Yahoo, Wolfram, Yelp and others to populate Siri’s search answers, not Google. I also don’t know if Apple is paying Yahoo, Wolfram or Yelp, if any of you do, please let me know…). ( image ) I don’t have Siri yet – I’m still using my “old” iPhone 4.

Yahoo has always been proud of the algorithms that drive its choice of personalized content, but it’s hard to grok exactly what they do behind the scenes to make the magic happen. From a release sent to me by Yahoo: C.O.R.E. Content Optimization and Relevance Engine) is a suite of technologies developed by Yahoo! Yahoo!’s

It was then picked up and reported by Yahoo! also posted a short note about Davison on the Future of Work blog, at this link (which also points you to the Yahoo story): [link]. Pushing the Limits on Workplace Design. Jay Momet of Leapfrog recently sent me a couple of links to some very “far out” workplaces. But it’s mighty interesting!

Email this via Yahoo! There are a lot of popular assumptions people make in this profession that lead us to make classic blunders. These can be assumptions about the change process, assumptions about our colleagues, and assumptions about our patrons. And those failures truly can be avoided. Here’s the first. Tweet This!

Even the major sites like Yahoo and Welie have stalled. The last update on Yahoo was 2 years ago; Welie was 4 years ago. Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Design patterns are generally considered a good thing, but do they actually help run a user experience group? ” What is the solution then?

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And I’m quite sure the folks at Facebook, Twitter, and others (think LinkedIn, Yahoo, etc) are making sure word of this exemplar reaches the right folks at the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, Congress, and government agencies around the world. Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here.

Connected world: the consumer technology revolution NewNet 2012: companies and technologies set to disrupt Flash analysis: the future of Yahoo. It only takes a peek around the desktops of the average office today to see that social network use at work is way up. But by exactly how much is this growth impacting corporate networks?

Yahoo’s been doing it this way from the beginning. ( image ) I’ve just been sent an official response from Google to the updated version of my story posted yesterday ( Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete? ). In that story, I reported about 2009 negotiations over incorporation of Facebook data into Google search.

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Here's just one picture I copied from the yahoo story: That work area is called "Inventalot." Jay Momet of Leapfrog recently sent me a link to some pictures of one of the most unusual workplaces you will ever see. It's at Davison International , in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Check this out: [link]. It's an actual office! What do you think?

Yahoo’s new CEO Scott Thompson knows how to buy companies and has a data focus, for example. Of course Yahoo would vie for Instagram as well, but I’m not sure it could win. Apple is weak in social and one dimensional in ad solutions. Google wants to get better in productivity software, social, and payments. Pinterest.

Flash analysis: the future of Yahoo Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce Finding the Value in Social Media Data. Anyone who’s tried to move their Flickr   photograph trove over to Facebook finds that it’s not easy. “The timeline piece is important.

Prediction 4:  MediaBank  will emerge as a major independent player in the marketing world, playing off its cross channel reach (outside of digital) and providing an alternative to the conflicted digital platforms at Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. 2011 was a strange year in many ways. Doc Searls:  Broadband vs. Internet. No way.

Email this via Yahoo! I have been wanting to write a post on work-life balance for a while, especially after spending a week at ACRL Assessment Immersion with a bunch of people who are deeply committed to their work and all define balance in their lives differently. Most of us probably fall somewhere in between. Is any of this a problem?

Some are financial mishaps: "I thought buying Yahoo at $485 a share was a good idea." Reflective Practice. View more presentations from Michele Martin. Earlier this week I was  honored to do an online presentation for educators in Australia on reflective practice as part of the Sidney Institute's online course, Designing for Flexibility.

Email this via Yahoo! I am a huge fan of research log and research process reflection assignments. Because research is a means to an end (the paper) and because people are often doing it in a rush, there is little reflection on process. What worked? What didn’t? Now that I have a system, research and writing is much simpler. Tweet This!

On the provider side, Yahoo’s Luke Beatty, it’s VP and GM of community, thinks that users understand that the way sites operate and rank them will change. Robertson said Trada requires workers to use their real names, and Beatty said Yahoo does the same for people it pays for content. There might be a limit, though.

Flash analysis: the future of Yahoo A 2011 NewNet Forecast Connected world: the consumer technology revolution. Thanks to global connectivity and networking sites like LinkedIn, workers now have more ability to take charge of their professional lives than ever before. So what is LinkedIn doing to capture more users during this transition?

Bing released its top searches of the year today, continuing the trend of presuming the year ends before December begins (watch for Yahoo and Google’s lists in the next week or so). Once again, the data is utterly uninspiring and shallow. mean, did we really not know that the US is fascinated with celebrities and iPhones?

Yahoo bought Right Media. I hate to pick on the good folks at TextPlus , because I like the service (and my kids do too). But my family recently had an experience that reminded me how stunted the advertising ecosystem remains in the (relatively) new world of apps. More on what I learned from him in a moment. But first, to the problem.

2011 NewNet Forecast Flash analysis: the future of Yahoo NewNet Q3: Facebook remakes headlines in social media. Cutting edge collaboration tools and enterprise social software aside, for the great many of us, email is still how much of our work gets done. What if an app could tap that reservoir of unstructured data to help you get more done?

Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The Case for Increased M&A in 2011: Actions and Outlooks Flash analysis: the future of Yahoo. Salesforce.com on Monday announced its acquisition of Model Metrics, a company that provides mobile and social cloud consulting services.

“Dependent web” platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. This week Ad Age published All Brands Are Publishers, Learn How to Be a Good One , by yours truly. But I hadn’t really pulled all of it together in short form, till now. Old school!).

Similarly, though with more colorful language, past CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz says, I have the puppy theory. The rise of tablets in the enterprise Flash analysis: the future of Yahoo Flash analysis: Steve Jobs. That doesn’t make any sense. This is what’s on my mind. This is quick feedback.” And then I’m on to the next thing.

Email this via Yahoo! For the past six and a half years, I have been teaching Freshman about peer-review and how to find peer-reviewed articles through the library (or Google Scholar). Expecting a first-year student to be able to grasp literary criticism and science articles written for other PhD’s seems crazy to me. Tweet This!

When consumer-based instant-messaging technologies infiltrated the workplace – AIM launched in 1997 and Yahoo! AIM Andy McLoughlin Facebook Future Of Work LinkedIn mobile workers Skype Tim Berners-Lee Twitter World Wide Web Yahoo Messenger2011 has been a year of milestone birthdays in tech. Collaborators welcome. ”. You’ve got mail.

Email this via Yahoo! This summer, I was engaged with quite a few projects (several of which I was in charge of), but was able to make time to focus on scholarship just about every Friday. Part of that, in my opinion, is this blog. This is how I engage with the profession, share my ideas, and have professional conversations with others.

On stage next week, Ross and I will have to discuss Yahoo's top leadership, or lack thereof, save Ross and his interim-CEO boss Tim Morse, who was Yahoo's CFO up until the abrupt firing of Carol Bartz late this summer. Today's news, for example, was that Yahoo stock is up , because potential buyers are "circling" the Internet giant.

On stage next week, Ross and I will have to discuss Yahoo’s top leadership, or lack thereof, save Ross and his interim-CEO boss Tim Morse, who was Yahoo’s CFO up until the abrupt firing of Carol Bartz late this summer. Perhaps no man is braver than Ross Levinsohn , at least at Web 2. But that’s Ross’s job.

They have further enhanced integration of their social media listening and sentiment analysis with Facebook, Yelp, Flickr and Yahoo Firehose (YQL), adding to its existing integration with Twitter, You Tube, Bing, Blogger, and Digg among others.   I recently spoke with Tom Kelly, the CEO, and Azita Martin, the CMO, about their offering.

And not Yahoo purple. Because I want to talk about the Xbox SDK, Microsoft's cloud strategy, Bing, Windows 8, the Facebook and Twitter partnerships, the Skype purchase, Yahoo (again), tablets, the Nokia deal. Day Two at Web 2 Summit ends with my interview of Steve Ballmer. It's worth watching. He kind of turns purple.

And not Yahoo purple. Because I want to talk about the Xbox SDK, Microsoft’s cloud strategy, Bing, Windows 8, the Facebook and Twitter partnerships, the Skype purchase, Yahoo (again), tablets, the Nokia deal… But enough of my questions. Day Two at Web 2 Summit ends with my interview of Steve Ballmer. Next up: James Gleick.

  Ross also showed the top five Web brands and here we can see that Google is much higher in terms on monthly minutes on site in billions than numbers two – four above: Facebook (53.5), Yahoo (17.2), Google 12.5), AOL (11.4), MSN/Bing (9.5). I can remember when Email and Search were the top two in Web usage (aside from porn). and U.S.

Hotmail is the largest email provider in the world, said Microsoft, though it trails Yahoo in the U.S. If you’ve been dabbling in the daily deals market, your email is probably inundated with emails touting the latest discount around the corner. Users can customize what actions they want to add to this pop-up tool.

One that Bijan Marashi, the co-founder of another email-indexing service, Xoopit, which was acquired by Yahoo! There is no shortage of ways to get in touch with people these days – from Outlook to iPhone and Twitter to LinkedIn — nor any lack of options when it comes to sharing their details or notes on your relationship history.

We all know about the innovations of the consumer Web over the past ten years, including the amazing experiences that companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo and others have created by crunching massive amounts of consumer data for personalization. The roadblocks. Social media data requires more structure.

Gil Yehuda , Director of Open Source Technology and Strategy, Yahoo! Today’s post is written by my colleague Connie Chan , Principal and Co-Founder of Chess Media Group. Findings from Chess Media Group’s newly published research report, State of Enterprise 2.0 Where should senior management begin?  What areas should they focus on?

Email this via Yahoo! It’s been extremely challenging to post here regularly (though I’m getting better about it!), not because of a lack of ideas, but because of a lack of down-time. Summer came late (like mid-July!) to Portland and we’re trying to make the most of it before the days of endless gray descend. So far so good!

But Mark is just the starting gun of an amazing opening session, one that will include John Donahoe , CEO of eBay, Marc Benioff , CEO of Salesforce, Paul Otellini , CEO of Intel, Dennis Crowley , co-founder of foursquare, Ross Levinsohn , EVP Americas at Yahoo!, must be a masochist. Because I always love how it turns out. together.

Email this via Yahoo! I have had some great discussions on Twitter. Professional discussions, discussions about parenting, conversations with friends. I’ve been pleasantly surprised that you can have a quality professional discussion with multiple people (some of whom you may not normally follow) in that medium. Twitter. FriendFeed.

Email this via Yahoo! Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. librarian comes into a new job full of enthusiasm. He volunteers for lots of projects and is a generally good citizen at his library. Over time, he notices that a lot of colleagues are not so willing to volunteer to do things. After a while, he begins to resent these people.

Yahoo. ( image ) I just re-read my post explaining What We Hath Wrought , the book I am currently working on. Yes, I know that's a dangling participle, Mom). And it strikes me I might ask you all this question: Which company do you think will be around, and let me add - around and thriving - one generation from now? Sorry about that. Amazon.

Email this via Yahoo! I loved Barbara Fister’s recent post, “Breaking News: Academic Journals are Really Expensive!&# , about faculty who seem surprised that journals cost the library a lot. Kind of amazing to think that these are people who produce and review content for these journals. Abs subscriptions). What then? Tweet This!

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Email this via Yahoo! I figured that since I’ve changed jobs from the last time I did Library Day in the Life , I’d participate this time around to give people a sense of what a Head of Instructional Services does at a large urban university. After writing this up, I realize that this day was no more typical for me than any other.

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Email this via Yahoo! Since having my son, I have not been the best blogger in the world, but that doesn’t meant that I’m not thinking about blogging. probably have a year’s worth of posts in my head, but always time with adorable toddler trumps blogging. I’m really curious!). Let’s face it: I’m a blogger.

It effectively offers a business-focused take on the kind of mailing list functionality provided by Google Groups and Yahoo Groups. It isn’t really doing anything new, as it’s effectively just a slightly more modern take on the kind of mailing list functionality offered by the likes of Google Groups and Yahoo Groups.

multi-protocol mobile chat app that supports AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Yahoo! Another popular “all-on one&# IM app that supports a variety of protocols, including AIM, iChat, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Skype Chat , and works on a number of different mobile platforms.

Email this via Yahoo! In anticipation of my upcoming two-part workshop on mobile technologies for libraries , Dan Freeman of ALA TechSource interviewed me, asking me about my thoughts on the present and future challenges and possibilities for mobile tech in libraries. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on FriendFeed.

SaneBox works with most email services that use IMAP or WebDAV, including Gmail, Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Mail, and Mozilla Thunderbird, so you can keep your current email address and software. When Gmail’s Priority Inbox feature was unveiled last August , I was optimistic that it would solve all my email woes.

Before you get started, you’ll need to fill out a few details or sign up using your OpenID, Google or Yahoo account. If you’re struggling to keep up with a noisy Twitter stream, you should check out Twimbow. It’s an online Twitter client that can help to keep your stream organized by color-coding and filtering tweets.

Email this via Yahoo! At my previous place of work, we had weekly “council meetings&# which was basically all of the professional librarians meeting to discuss issues, make big decisions about the library and manage the budget. Like our entire non-professional staff. how can you expect their buy-in? Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

On any given day (and sometimes every single day) you'd see Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Vevo, Facebook and Google tents and/or parties. This past week I attended the Cannes Lions , one of the advertising industry's most prestigious and well attended events. And, for whatever reason, the drink of choice is Rose. I'm not sure.

Email this via Yahoo! When I wrote my book Social Software in Libraries five years ago, I decided to include a chapter on mobile technologies. As I started researching the topic, I was disappointed to find that very few libraries were doing anything to make their services (including their website) accessible via a mobile device. Tweet This!

We've worked with some of the best brands in what we've come to call "the Independent Web" - that part of the media world that isn't Facebook (though we've worked with them, of course), or Google, or Yahoo, or AOL for that matter. We delivered our first campaigns to FM partners in late 2005, and we've never really looked back.

Of course, you may also want to look at Google Groups , Yahoo Groups , listservs, and Facebook Groups , which were recently upgraded. Convos, a group communication tool that I covered back in 2009 , has notified its customers by email that it will be shutting down as of June 30, 2011. Wiggio. Samuel liked its beta back in 2008. Groupsite.

It also made me think how I only have one Facebook and one Twitter account, but I have several each of Gmail and Yahoo email accounts, so perhaps the email numbers are even less likely than some of the other services to have a direct relationship with the number of individual users? web 2.0

Email this via Yahoo! I’ve never felt like a particularly optimistic person. When we were getting ready to move to Portland, I fully expected that we’d lose furniture on the way or that much of it would arrive severely damaged. It didn’t happen. I’ve never thought of myself as being that way. Here’s hoping!

Yahoo may be nearly as big as Facebook, but it doesn't have nearly the engagement per user. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have tons of email interaction data. As I wrote last month , I'm working with a team of folks to redesign the Web 2 Points of Control map along the lines of this year's theme: " The Data Frame." But how? And so on.

Reimagining Yahoo!: Special thanks to our sponsors: Blackberry, AT&T, Google, Quantcast, Demand Media, Facebook, Outbrain, Pandora, Pixazza, R2integrated, Slideshare, Yahoo!, Everson and I spoke last month as a prelude to our onstage conversation next week at the CM Summit. And then there's the question of privacy.

Reimagining Yahoo!: Special thanks to our sponsors: Blackberry, AT&T, Google, Quantcast, Demand Media, Facebook, Outbrain, Pandora, Pixazza, R2integrated, Slideshare, Yahoo!, The headline isn't really reflective of Lucio's views on Google, but there you have it. Lately those threats have gotten very real.

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but I'll also be asking about his competition, which include Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and a slew of fast growing startups. Those include: Reimagining Yahoo!: Special thanks to our sponsors: Blackberry, AT&T, Google, Quantcast, Demand Media, Facebook, Outbrain, Pandora, Pixazza, R2integrated, Slideshare, Yahoo!,

Yahoo! Both men are energized by the chance to leverage the Yahoo platform, and both are realistic as well - it won't be easy, and it won't come fast. The new service, which is focused on a tablet media experience, is aimed directly at several weaknesses and opportunities in Yahoo's portfolio. Ambitious? intend to find out.

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Dean McEvoy , founder of Spreets , spoke about the success of Spreets, founded in February of last year and sold to Yahoo!7 I am at the launch of Digital Sydney , part of the Vivid Sydney and Creative Sydney festivals. So far that growth has owed very little to government support. Government support is certainly not necessary.

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Since then, a number of companies have sought to cash in on the phenomenon, including Skype, Tango , Yahoo and others. Online and mobile video chat provider ooVoo has just released a new app for the iPhone   that offers multi-platform video chat for Apple devices. The big differentiator ooVoo has is the ability to do multi-user chat.

The start-up, which is coming out of stealth mode, is introducing an app for the new Yahoo Mail that organizes a user’s online receipts, shipping notices and daily deals and helps people make sense of it all, like Mint , but for online purchases. The free app will be available to 89 million Yahoo mail users in the U.S.

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Email this via Yahoo! Greetings from Portland, Oregon! I’ve been wanting to post about so many things in the past two months (especially just about everything Barbara Fister has been writing over at Library Babel Fish — gosh she is insightful!), but it’s been difficult to find the time. As for me, I’m loving Portland.

One of the next layers is the use of phone apps that allow people to share what they are watching and build a conversation around it, notably IntoNow (recently acquired by Yahoo!), The opportunity for television is to become a truly participative media. In my keynote I reflected on how the power of big screen will remain truly compelling.

It continues: Facebook’s large user base will make it the world’s largest online display advertising company by revenue this year, overtaking the comparable businesses of Google and Yahoo, according to analysis published on Tuesday. The comparison makes for great headlines, but I don't really think it's apples to apples.

Thursday’s Yahoo Mail blackout was the source of a lot of headaches, with some 1.2 As of press time, Yahoo’s Wikipedia page has been vandalized (screenshot below) and anecdotal reports continue to pour in from users who haven’t had access to Yahoo Mail for more than 8 hours. million users said to be affected.

The app integrates with a variety of calendar, email and scheduling applications, including Outlook Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Entourage for Mac, Lotus Notes, BlackBerry Yahoo, Windows Live, Facebook, TripIt and Plancast. There are Tungle mobile apps available for iPhone and BlackBerry.

That in itself is enough for me to ignore someone -- if they are claiming to be with an organization but their email address is gmail/yahoo/comcast, I assume they're bogus. A friend of mine just got tricked by a spammer who claimed to be from a university but whose email address was a Gmail account. info-entrepreneurship

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Yahoo and others tried to become portals, losing sight of the users primary goal. It is an honest question: how smart are your users? The answer may surprise you: it doesn’t matter. They can be geniuses or morons, but if you don’t engage their intelligence, you can’t depend on their brain power. An extreme example you say?

Note that despite its name, Snooze Your Email for Gmail also apparently works for Yahoo Mail, although I haven’t tried it. CNN browser Chrome Email extension Gmail Snooze Your Email for Gmail yahoo mailThe danger is that the email ends up being forgotten. Snooze Your Email for Gmail may be able to help.

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The World Wide Web started to take shape, and Yahoo became one of the largest directories for web content. Over the years, there have been numerous articles musing on what the office of the future would look like, but how have those past predictions matched up to reality today? Pake , then head of Xerox Corp.’s is overdue?),