• Macbookair… revolutionary

     

    I’m gong to get lashed by some fanboys out there but what the hell. I saw this over on Rod’s blog and couldn’t resist…

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  • Another Kiwi software success story…

     

    IBIS Technology is a Queenstown based software developer producing booking systems for tourism operators, ticketing agent and inbound operators. Started by Erik Bradshaw in the mid-nineties it now employs six or seven people and has high profile clients in…

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  • PlanHQ – Friends of O’Reilly..

     

    Check out this video of Tim Norton from PlanHQ talking to Tim O’Reilly of Web2.0 fame. Tim is doing a copybook job of getting out, building profile and garnering attention – PlanHQ is a business to watch.

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  • VC’s tightening belts…

     

    A piece on the CIO site suggested that the fallout from the sub prime crash will lead to something of a belt tightening in the VC circles but not a bubble burst (yet). Salient points; Cleantech could be the…

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  • Usability guide for the 2.0 world….

     

    With a hat tip to Mike (who is actually a nice guy in person AND online), have a look at this web 2.0 usability guide. As an aside it seems everyone has a different way of enunciating Web 2.0,…

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  • Farewell iHug…

     

    News this morning that Vodafone is pulling the pin on the iHug brand. Not unexpected but still a little sad to see the end of a 15 year brand presence in New Zealand.

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  • Results from the APNFinda/Google mashup…

     

    I’ve got a meeting this week at the Savoy Brown, a nice little cafe in Christchurch. Being both a proponent and a user of SaaS solutions I naturally placed the invitation into my Google calendar. When I did so…

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  • The MySQL acquisition…

     

    A while ago I wrote a post discussing commercial imperatives for opensource software. That time I cam from a perspective of finding a natural intersect between the rabid community mindedness  of opensource with the rabid commercialism of SaaS (generalisations…

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  • Another succesful NZ startup…

     

    PowerbyProxi has developed a cool technology whereby power can be transmitted to products without wires. For example, the technology allows the wireless charging of cellphones or the powering-up of industrial robots. John Deere USA has taken an equity stake…

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  • SaaS to weather the storm…

     

    Buddy Kaila pointed out this editorial from Forbes magazine. The basic premise is that in the soon-to-eventuate recession, SaaS companies will be somewhat protected from the fall out. The reasons given; SaaS is an expensable rather than capital outlay…

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