With a hat tip to Zoli I commend anyone with any degree of ambivalence to what Web2.0 offers society to view the following. It’s beautiful, powerful, persuasive and exciting.. all at once
Following on from my previous post where I told of Facebook warning me about apparently dodgy messages that I was alleged to have been posting on Facebook, I just received the following email; Hi Ben, We’ve investigated this further,…
Another NZ specific post here – first a summary for the offshore folks. Michael Stiassny sits on a number of boards of listed companies and has a reputation as a heavy handed chairman. Some months ago he went behind…
Sorry to my international readers to whom this will have little relevance but I really needed to comment on this. Past NZ media star Susan Wood took up a job a week ago as GM of a local business …
Adobe stated at the web 2.0 summit hat it figures that within 10 years all of its products will be delivered via the web (ie SaaS as I define it – in the clouds). Bob discussed the practicalities –…
I just got an email from Facebook that said; Hello, You have been sending harassing messages to other users. This is a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. Among other things, messages that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are…
So… Noel Leemings, one of NZ’s biggest electronic retailers, hired Erin Brokovich to front a marketing campaign for them. Readers of the NZ herald newspaper said; “Customer service is non-existent,” one reader wrote while another described visiting the store…
In a very reasonable post, the unreasonable men discuss PaaS. Background: PaaS is platforms as a service. It’s about offering an online platform complete with the application development, data storage and other tools required to run multi-tenanted, massively scalable…
Zoli posted over here about Zonbu, an ultra cheap, ultra low power, cloud computing device. He also went on to detail some of the limitations of the device – namely limited storage (on board) and limitation in terms of…
Rod has posted about doing business in The Valley. Some conflicting comments ensued but the comment of the day follows; In a world where everyone knows everything, there’s no shortage of great ideas . . just people who can…