Monthly Archives: March 2010

31/03/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

RIPing The Traditional Web: Not So Fast

By Krishnan Subramanian
Recently, Rob Mills wrote a post on Think Vitamin proclaiming death to traditional web. He was pointing out the widespread use of mobile devices and the next wave of iPad like devices and argued that this will make traditional web secondary to mobile sites and apps. The web is dead. OK, it isn
30/03/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Nice Marketing Blackbox Republic – But Maybe I Was Right to be Skeptical

By Ben Kepes
Nearly a year ago the blogosphere went wild about Blackbox Republic, a social media site that “focused on reinventing the online relationship market” or whatever that means. It’s a social network for “sex positive” individuals or people who are "open enough about sexuality that it's not
30/03/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

An Interesting Agenda Shapes Up At Gluecon

By Krishnan Subramanian
Gluecon, a great conference organized by Eric Norlin at Denver each year, is shaping up very well this year with more emphasis on the technical side. I attended the event last year and I posted my thoughts about the event here and here. Towards the end of the event last year, I casually mentioned t
30/03/2010 Posted in Just for fun 1 Comment

Xero Now Hosted by MYOB

By Ben Kepes
It’s not Friday, but it’s time for a Friday funny… A couple of years ago, Xero got hold of the URL relating to MYOB’s new (at that time) SaaS product Business Basics Online. I posted about it at the time saying: But in the craziest turn of the story, check out this link –www.businessb
30/03/2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Under The Radar – Brokering The Clouds

By Krishnan Subramanian
Image by thekenyeung via Flickr Under The Radar, a series of conferences organized by Dealmaker Media, is a platform for startups to launch themselves in front of some of the top minds in industry is organizing their cloud event on April 16th, 2010 with a focus on Commercializing the Cloud, h
29/03/2010 Posted in Design 3 Comments

Crowdsourcing for the Stars

By Ben Kepes
I posted late last year about how Zendesk (more on them here) had crowdsourced the translation of their application into different languages. At the time CEO Mikkel Svane commented that; Within just a few weeks of releasing the Zendesk internationalization tool we had support for more than 25 la
29/03/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Xero Personal – Is That It?

By Ben Kepes
Six months ago Xero (see disclosure statement) announced that they’d be building a personal finance application to go with their business one. I was pleased at the time, in part because I believe the personal/business divide is an artificial one (see post here). This morning Xero flicked the switc
27/03/2010 Posted in General 1 Comment

Cloud Computing – Scrap the Term?

By Ben Kepes
OK – So this is going to be contentious… ah well, I’ve never shied away from that. I wonder if it isn’t in fact time to ease off on the whole “Cloud Computing” term. While this might sound a little heretical, bear with me here… I’ve been running a bunch of CloudCamps around the plac
26/03/2010 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

T Shirt Friday #36 – Appirio #2

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
25/03/2010 Posted in Design 1 Comment

Without Standards, the World Falls Down

By Ben Kepes
This was meant to be a happy post. Unfortunately OggSync gets to bear the brunt of my frustrations over standards and portability. But first some background: I run a pretty busy schedule – to give you an idea of what that means in real terms I have 12 separate calendars – my manufacturing busin

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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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