Category Archives: Collaboration

July 22, 2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, IT, Web x.0 6 Comments

Watch (or take part in) a crowdsourced product

By Ben Kepes

Over on TechCrunchIT they’re not satisfied just talking about tech – now they want to create it. They have visions to create a very lightweight tablet PC running pretty much as a web book. The product looks cool – but even cooler will be to watch the project unfold –

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July 21, 2008 Posted in Collaboration, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Listing The Latest Google Apps Upgrades

By Mike Riversdale

As most of you know I use Google Apps to run MiramarMike.co.nz and thoroughly enjoy the freedom that I have when it comes to accessing and using my company information from wherever I am in the world (Wellington mostly) – as long as I have a good connection to the

July 20, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 4 Comments

Swisscom rolling out Zoho apps

By Ben Kepes

I got a heads up from Zoli that Zoho business is now live. This comes on the back of the announcement by Zoho that Swisscom, Switzerland’s second largest telco, is using Zoho for it business applications requirements. Zoho has created a customised version of their applications and this has been

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July 11, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, My businesses, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy Leave a comment

Some things are best left to private industry…

By Ben Kepes

A couple of announcements of late have me scratching my head in wonderment. First comes the post by Bernard Hickey about MissionOn. I posted about MissionOn back in February (yes, you saw it here first) and my appraisal was that it was a good example of how not to do

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July 9, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Peeling the onion – Microsoft’s S+S..

By Ben Kepes

When Microsoft revealed Equipt the other day (Diversity coverage here) there was much discussion as to whether it amounted to the totality of MS’s SaaS offering). Well we didn’t have to wait long for an answer. At its worldwide partner conference in Houston this week, MS announced definitive road map

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July 9, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT 1 Comment

The prognosis for email…

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW, Alex Iskold posted about email, asking whether or not it is in danger. Alex pointed out that there are some threats to email, in the form of Twitter, Instant messaging and SMS. Alex came up with a diagram to illustrate the areas that email has traditionally been

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July 7, 2008 Posted in Collaboration, Efficiency, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

True Aggregation, The Browser as a Platform

By yves

This is a guest post from BeeBuzz, the voice of BeeBole. Every morning when I stop reading the last big news from about 30 blogs in Netvibes and switch to my countless SaaS Business Apps such as Gmail, Basecamp, Highrise, Remember The Milk, Google Docs, … I wonder why aggregation

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July 7, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, IT, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

On mobile banking…

By Ben Kepes

With the release of the iPhone 3G, movement on affordable mobile dataplans and a myriad of new entrants in mobile applications, it is interesting to look at perceptions around mobile data. An interesting research piece from Unisys brings up the following statistics; worldwide there are 3.3 billion mobile phone subscribers

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July 5, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Monetisation for on-demand office productivity suites

By Ben Kepes

Rod posted about the economics of software companies. The basis of his post was some information out of Microsoft that told of the 180 person Mac business unit that generates $350mill per annum. Rod pointed out that this is a significant return by anyone’s standards but that the 2-3 year

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July 4, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, SocialMedia, Society, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

It’s all about change

By Ben Kepes

Simon G pointed out a presentation on slideshare titled “What the F**K is Social Media”. It’s a fantastic show and should be compulsory viewing for anyone at a management level within a corporate (and that includes the board – communication starts with them). To be honest it should be compulsory

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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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