Monthly Archives: February 2008

26/02/2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 4 Comments

Office productivity apps, a rebuttal…

By Ben Kepes

A recent discussion on RWW got a number of people hot under the collar. To summarise, a post was written detailing why the author believed that Google apps was a serious threat to Microsoft office. In a fairly vitriolic response, a commenter left a message titled “Google Docs is full

25/02/2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

The impact of Scale and Economics on SaaS and broadband

By The Unreasonablemen

NOTE: this is a mirror post of my unreasonablemen.net blog. There have been a few posts recently about broadband in NZ, some well thought through, others not so. The crux of this issue is about scale & economics. This of course is massively applicable to SaaS too. So in the

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25/02/2008 Posted in Design, IT, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

On enterprise 2.0…

By Ben Kepes

This morning I had a thoroughly entertaining chat with Michael Sampson. Michael’s work, from his own website, is all about improving the capability of teams that can’t be together, to work together. Or more simply, on collaboration. Michael’s an interesting chap, he sees the reality within enterprise, and appreciates the

24/02/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS Leave a comment

In the clouds DB gets VC funding…

By Ben Kepes

Blist, the in the clouds database solution for dummies, just got USD6.5mill in series A funding. The Blist product looks nice – full of Flex goodness. I’ve been having a play with it at home on my 256k, miles away from the exchange, DSL link and it seems surprisingly speedy.

24/02/2008 Posted in Society 2 Comments

Subprime 101…

By Ben Kepes

It’s been doing the blog rounds but I thought it worthwhile to mention this quick guide to the sub prime crisis. Well worth a look but be warned that the language is a little rough around the edges

22/02/2008 Posted in IT, Web x.0 Leave a comment

SkyDriveLive is ….Live

By Ben Kepes

With a hat tip to the fantastic Mauricio, news that SkyDriveLive, Microsoft’s in the clouds storage system is now up and running. Salient points; It’s free Maximum storage of 5Gb Available in 38 countries Doing all your computing in the clouds is fast becoming a reality!

22/02/2008 Posted in New Zealand, Society 7 Comments

Fighting for peace….

By Ben Kepes

I remember a saying from my youth that “Fighting for peace is like [expletive deleted] for virginity”. In a similar way comes an interesting post from Jim about a novel approach towards getting kids active that has been taken by the NZ sport and recreation commission. MissionOn is a social

22/02/2008 Posted in Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

Microsoft and its own advice.

By Ben Kepes

Over on GapingVoid, the following story is told; During my time in Korea it was relayed to me that Burnett Chicago had a shot at the Microsoft advertising account. Having created icons for some of the most prominent brands in history, Marlborough, Kellogg’s, McDonald’s and the Keebler Brands to name

21/02/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

Accounting SaaS….

By Ben Kepes

There’s an interesting duality going on in Australasia around SaaS delivered SME accounting. On the one side you have SaaSu, the Australian solution with a nine year history of development and deployment. In the other corner we have Xero, the new entrant creating a ground-up SaaS application and with global

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21/02/2008 Posted in Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Society 5 Comments

Peter Griffin on FTTH…

By Ben Kepes

Peter Griffin writes about his experience witnessing the Dutch program of Government rolling out Fibre to the Home (FTTH) throughout Amsterdam. Peter says; The Dutch, you see, are where New Zealand needs to be this time next year – blowing fibre through underground ducts in order to get better broadband

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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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