Monthly Archives: December 2009

29/12/2009 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

Summer Fun – Rant Redux #2

By Ben Kepes
In an attempt to sleigh dragons and battle demons (or maybe that’s the other round) I often go into battle to try and get some sense and scale into the marketing messages that I hear from PR. 2009 seems to be destined to be remembered as the year of the Platform – when every startup was intent o
28/12/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Summer Fun – Rant Redux #1

By Ben Kepes
It seems only fair that while I’m off enjoying a (Southern Hemisphere) summer road trip, I should continue to provide my readers with some thoughts. I figured seeing I’ll be a million miles from anywhere, and unable to access decent connectivity, that a series of my ranty-est posts, with some ne
26/12/2009 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

T-Shirt Friday #23 – Defrag

By Ben Kepes
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt o
23/12/2009 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

Adios – See You All Soon (ish)

By Ben Kepes
Here in the Southern Hemisphere (that’s at the bottom of the globe for the more geographically challenged among you!), it’s summertime. That means vacations (we call them holidays), Barbecues (we call them barbies) and Sandy beaches (down here they’re often lined with Pohutukawa trees – that
23/12/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

WebFinger – Paradigm Changing?

By Ben Kepes
I wrote a post recently about what billFLO is doing for small, Mom and Pop owner of Do it Best stores. This, along with some pretty exciting discussions I’d had both as part of The Small Business Web and privately with some other people, got me thinking about the reality on the ground for SMBs. Th
22/12/2009 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Milly’s #2 Fail

By Ben Kepes

I posted this morning about my nightmare buying a product from Milly’s. This afternoon after a long convoluted journey my goods turned up – it seems they’d been sent astray… Looking at the packing slip, Milly’s had sent my stuff to 1/65 Lichfield Street: But looking at my order confirmation,

22/12/2009 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Milly’s – Not the Way to do E-Commerce

By Ben Kepes

So in the run up to Christmas/Hanukah, things have been pretty hectic – I didn’t have a lot of time to shop for gifts so I decided to “let my fingers do the walking” and go online. Playing it safe (and considering I’m an amateur epicure) I decided to get

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21/12/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s About Focus – SMBs, SaaS, Knitting and Dogfood

By Ben Kepes
Awhile ago I posted a bit of a rant about an experience one of my businesses was having with a particular ISP who didn’t seem to understand the concept of customer service. Briefly I told the sorry tale of woe that we experienced with our site hosted on a traditional ISPs VPS offering. I got a bun
21/12/2009 Posted in Design Leave a comment

CloudCamp Sydney – March 2010

By Ben Kepes
Confirmation this morning that CloudCamp Sydney will be taking place on the 4th of March. Cool kids expanz have stepped up as platinum sponsors for the event (a great thing about CloudCamps is that there is only one platinum sponsor slot per event – better for the attendees, better for the sponsor
21/12/2009 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Xero says Moo (and Baa)

By Ben Kepes

Despite what many “new economy paradigm” aficionados would have you believe, the rural sector makes up a huge proportion of New Zealand’s GDP – it’s for this reason that travesties such as the Factory Farming issue are so vitally important to nip in the bud. I love it when a

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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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