Category Archives: General

June 25, 2010 Posted in General 1 Comment

Moving On….. Thanks, and Goodbye

By Ben Kepes
Tweet Back in September of 2008 a small, yet hardy, bunch of bloggers, backed by the support of Zoho, embarked on a journey of discovery, creating what they hoped would become the number one resource for cloud computing thought leadership. I was stoked to be offered the opportunity to co-edit Clou
June 22, 2010 Posted in General Leave a comment

Podcast: Open Source and Cloud Computing

By Krishnan Subramanian
I have been advocating the role of Open Source in a Cloud based world. Recently, I got a chance to sit and talk with Geva Perry and James Urquhart on their podcast about the relevance of open source in a cloud based world. You can download the podcast here or head over to the podcast page to lis
June 21, 2010 Posted in enterprise, General 1 Comment

Rackspace Gives Email Users Choice

By Ben Kepes
Tweet I believe that all generic technology services should be outsourced. Anything that doesn’t provide a point of differentiation for your business is a candidate to move to the cloud. One of the first applications in this class is, I believe, email. Beyond security of your data, there is no com
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June 15, 2010 Posted in class-action, consumerbell, General Leave a comment

Doing Well By Doing Good – ConsumerBell

By Ben Kepes
After the GoogleIO conference a few weeks ago, I attended the Mashable soiree at SoMA watering hole Roe. Somewhat jaded by jetlag, too little sleep and a punishing conference schedule, I spent most of the evening leaning against a wall trying to stop falling asleep. I must have looked a little forlo
June 7, 2010 Posted in cloudwash, General, NZCS 3 Comments

The Cloud – A Post Hype Reflection

By Ben Kepes
TweetRecently I was asked to present to the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Computer Society on cloud computing. Icelandic volcanoes resulted in me partnering with Abhinav Keswani, fellow Christchurch industry insider, to present to the gathering. My presentation was a general overview, along w
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May 26, 2010 Posted in General, security 5 Comments

Privacy Settings are a Crutch. Free Apps Profit from your Data

By Ben Kepes
William Vambenepe posts a challenging thought piece with a very simple contention - Data too sensitive to leak from Facebook is too sensitive to be on Facebook. Vambenepe gives many examples of ways that Facebook can fail, but sums it up with a simple piece of advice: “Don’t put anything on
May 24, 2010 Posted in General, Strategy Leave a comment

On Google’s Analytics Gallery, Terms and Conditions, Software Ownership and Responsiveness

By Ben Kepes
This starts out as a chastisement for Google and ends up congratulatory. Read on for details. So Google launched an app gallery for Google Analytics – how interesting can that be you ask? Well quite interesting from a “who owns my stuff perspective” but first an intro about the gallery. I
May 22, 2010 Posted in General 2 Comments

The World is International Google, Believe It Or Not

By Ben Kepes
This post might come across as sour grapes, it’s sure not meant to be that way. I’ve spent the last two days at Google IO – It was an amazing event – the Android keynote that Vic Gundotra gave in particular was astounding. But anyway, I digress. At the event all attendees were given a
May 19, 2010 Posted in enterprise, General, marketing, Small business, Strategy 1 Comment

There’s a Reason It’s Free – Get Over It…

By Ben Kepes
I’ve been mulling this post around in my head for quite some time now – an eight hour flight across the great Australian Desert seemed as good a time as any to finally put pen to paper (fingers to keys?) and write this post. We’ve been hearing much lately about privacy concerns with free serv
May 18, 2010 Posted in General, security Leave a comment

Protect Your Facebook Privacy

By Krishnan Subramanian
I have been critical of Facebook's privacy policies in this blog. In my opinion, Facebook has really gone rogue. They give a damn to users just like what Microsoft did during the time it had monopoly like power in the market. Having said that the movement to delete Facebook accounts is at best hyste

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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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