
It’s easier to comprehend why Facebook bought Instagram for crazy money if you ignore the social networking and instead focus on the value in automatic location updates via Internet-connected mobile devices…

Whilst we often talk about how statistics can always provide the answers people are looking for (hence the title of this post), there is another angle to consider – are the underlying numbers even accurate?
A few years ago, I published an infographic showing the history of SharePoint, to help decypher the different twists, turns and acquisitions that influenced what went into (and out of) SharePoint. (May get round to doing an update on that sometime…) A related product has also had a few twists and turns of its own [...]
Hot on the heels of announcing the new PowerPivot for Excel at the SharePoint conference recently, Microsoft’s Live Labs have announced another new tool with a very similar name: Pivot. So it seems we have PowerPivot for Excel and Pivot for the web. There’s no mention of whether or not the products are technically related [...]




