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Friday Roast - can we stop fawning over Starbucks' so-called digital experience? This article is sponsored by:

Usually it's Starbucks doing the coffee roasting. Not this Friday. Time for an overdue questioning of the Starbucks "digital experience." Beware the fugly-channel, a terrifying perversion of the omni-channel.

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Friday rant - Gawker.com shuts down, should enterprises care? This article is sponsored by:

Gawker.com is officially dead. The litigation that caused its demise is disturbing. The rationalizations from Gawker.com are infuriating. That's fodder for a Friday rant, with enterprise readers in mind.

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Friday roast: Heh vendors - give up the buzzword bingo This article is sponsored by:

Buzzword bingo is a reality in technology but it is confusing and undermining vendors' ability to communicate value.

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No, pop-ups can't be part of a good UX - ever. This article is sponsored by:

An article justifying pop-ups as good UX stuck in my craw. I couldn't wait until Friday for this roast.

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Friday roast - Google spins Google+, gives masterclass in bad blogging This article is sponsored by:

Google had a chance to clarify the future of Google+. The result? A masterclass in how-not-to blog. Here's my blow-by-blow transparency translation.

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Friday roast: getting out of spreadsheet hell This article is sponsored by:

Vijay Vijayasankar makes the case for spreadsheet hell as a reality we cannot overcome. I dispute that claim.

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Friday roast: Digital Transformation Accelerator This article is sponsored by:

Made up titles are bad enough but in a post-social era, do we really need a Digital Transformation Accelerator?

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The Friday Roast - 404s This article is sponsored by:

404 URL errors are a royal pain and hurt SEO.Organisations are getting sloppier at cleaning their mess.  That sux.

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diginomica 2014 - Den's choice This article is sponsored by:

Dennis Howlett weighs in with his personal selection from diginomica in 2014.

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Friday Roast: Byzantine CYA paper based processes This article is sponsored by:

Continuing our occasional series, this time it is about redundant paperwork and the pain that goes with CYA

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The Friday Roast - HR tech PR, a strong candidate for TBF 1995 This article is sponsored by:

This week's Friday Roast zooms in on HR tech PR. It's not doing a good job at a time when HR is poised to take a strategic role.

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