Monthly Archives: October 2007

29/10/2007 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Government Procurement – the inside story

By Ben Kepes

With a hat tip to the Silicon Welly blog, here is an event that might be useful for some of you. Half day seminar on selling to the New Zealand Government Industry Capability Network This free half day seminar will give you insights into the processes and challenges of selling

29/10/2007 Posted in Business, IT, Society, Strategy Leave a comment

Orwellian nightmare….

By Ben Kepes

I’m having a continuing “discussion” with a friend who tends towards the conspiracist side of things. He sees Google, Youtube, MS, Facebook et al of being stooges for some kind of big brother who is watching us at all times. After one of his emails where he expressed concern about

29/10/2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Society 2 Comments

Low kiwisaver uptake for 20-45 age group…

By Ben Kepes

You don’t say…. Surprise surprise but the age group which is most likely to be highly in debt on their first home, likely to be a family on a single income, and also likely to still be paying off a student loan is also the age group with worryingly low

28/10/2007 Posted in Business and the Environment, Society, Uncategorized, Waipara Leave a comment

Recreational Sunday…

By Ben Kepes

The boys and I just got back from a lovely jaunt up Mt Cass. Mt Cass overlooks the stunningly beautiful Waipara Valley, not to mention our house – pic below is us on the top pointing to the family digs; Mt Cass is also the site of the proposed Mt

27/10/2007 Posted in Blogging 3 Comments

New name/New look

By Ben Kepes

So… The previous blog name (business, strategy, governance) didn’t really cover the fact that I talk a lot about SaaS, Web 2.0 and that sort of stuff – so I figured tell it like it is and call the blog what it is. I dropped the tagline and thought I

27/10/2007 Posted in Business, Governance, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 3 Comments

1place perhaps bad place…..

By Ben Kepes

Following on from my previous post about the demise and resurrection of 1place I did some digging. Seems there was a parting of the ways between the shareholders. Lead developer Bevan Falloon was ousted and someone else was bought in to do development. It appears that Bevan helped out some

27/10/2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT Leave a comment

Cool mini servers…

By Ben Kepes

Check out these. Fully solid state, no moving parts, ultra low-temp mini servers. I can think of some good applications – as an all in one VoIP box, remote managing of IP cams, in a home network situation – lots really. Technology is cool.

27/10/2007 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Desktop web apps

By Ben Kepes

With a hat tip to Zoli I thought I’d post about something he mentioned – Mozilla Prism. The concept is to create desktop window displayed web apps – one example of a use for this sort of stuff would be having Xero open on one monitor with Google spreadsheet in

26/10/2007 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Google Calendar with offline support coming…

By Ben Kepes

Not sure when but read about it here…. Those thinking of doing cool things with outlook and exchange need to hurry – the window of opportunity is closing fast.

26/10/2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 13 Comments

Broadband – what for?

By Ben Kepes

In response to a post by Rod about Telecom’s announced investment in nationwide broadband, the unreasonable men posed the following question; I’ve got a question for you all. What are you going to do with you’re faster broadband? The speed of the network is only one of many things that

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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