Monthly Archives: April 2008

27/04/2008 Posted in Blogroll 4 Comments

First Birthday!

By Ben Kepes

One year ago today the first posting to what would eventually become Diversity Blogs was made. It seemed then an opportune time for a little reflection and statistical measurement; 841 posts 1112 comments 8 contributors (some major some less so!) What initially started as a forum to discuss the place

26/04/2008 Posted in Blogroll 2 Comments

Diversity in audio format

By Ben Kepes

Sharp eyed reader will notice that Diversity posts are now availabe in audio format – both streaming and to download. Great for the iPodders and visually impaired out there.The service is provided by Odiogo and thus far seems pretty high quality. Feeds to a myriad of services below; iTunes users

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26/04/2008 Posted in SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

O’Reilly annoints SaaS… And dismisses versioning the web?

By Ben Kepes

Phew – I new I was onto a good thing, and now justification from on high. At the web 2.0 expo keynote, father of all things web 2.0 Tim O’Reilly modified his descriptor of web 2.0 to include; The Internet is the platform Harnessing the collective intelligence Data as the

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25/04/2008 Posted in Blogging 1 Comment

Welcome to seesmic….

By Ben Kepes

I’ve not as yet joined the realm of the podcasters out there, however an invite code to seesmic made me think about starting a foray in vidcasting. Firstly I’d be keen to hear readers opinions on whether vidcasting is a positive step for a blog such as this one; Anyway

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24/04/2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS 1 Comment

Dreaming of a mesh world

By Ben Kepes

The blogosphere is abuzz with discussion about Microsoft’s LiveMesh announcement yesterday. Essentially, and initially, LiveMesh is a platform that allows synchronization (currently PC only) between machines and the clouds by collecting various feeds into one locale. Given the timing of this announcement, it was fortuitous that I was scheduled to

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24/04/2008 Posted in Economic Development, New Zealand, Society 2 Comments

Super normal profits (and it’s not a telco)

By Ben Kepes

It seems in New Zealand that we’re quick to admonish corporates that run high profits and seemingly provide bad service. The excoriation that has been levelled on our telcos of late has been a good example of this. One cannot help but think that much of this criticism is politically

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23/04/2008 Posted in Governance, IT, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Facebook chat is live!

By Ben Kepes

Just in time to watch twitter steal it’s thunder, Facebook has released it’s chat app. I’ve posted before suggesting that Facebook has already reached its zenith, chat may well stem the tide of defectors (after all im is a cool thing and adds to the stickiness, especially when “friends” no

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23/04/2008 Posted in Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

National’s plans for FTTH

By Ben Kepes

Everyone will by now have seen National’s plans unveiled yesterday for a $1.5b investment in FTTH. John Key’s announcement is below; Lots of commentary about this already, Rod is pretty positive as it reasonably neatly dovetails with the work the NZI has done (and which Rod was involved in). Now

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23/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT Leave a comment

XP till 2012?

By Ben Kepes

Not sure if this is legit or not (care to comment Andy Lark?) but reports say that Dell will continue offering Win XP way past Microsoft’s cut off date. Seems user demand will have XP offered on high end Dell business machines – so the consumers get the “top shelf”

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23/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Microsoft gets a trifecta!

By Ben Kepes

I’d avoided posting about Microsoft’s latest offering, Albany, because there is really not much anyone in the SaaS world can find to say about it…. I can’t resist however so here goes. Basically it seems that Albany is a way to derive some revenue out of existing products that aren’t

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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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