Category Archives: Web x.0

September 11, 2008 Posted in Blogging, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 8 Comments

A new day, a new gig

By Ben Kepes

It’s a little bit later than expected but at last I’m happy to announce the creation of  CloudAve. Along with a great team of writers and researchers, Zoli Erdos as editor in chief and myself as editor will be creating what we hope will become the pre-eminent location for cloud computing

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Design, The Cloud, Web x.0 4 Comments

And it’s over…

By Ben Kepes

Sitting in the last session of the conference – Ismael is going over the tools used to run the entire operation – 500 physical attendees and a couple of thousand virtual ones. All planned and arranged in a couple of months – it’s been a whirlwind. Overall it’s been great

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Efficiency, IT, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Meeting without travelling

By Ben Kepes

A panel discussion that the Twitterverse is no doubt interested in – check out the Twitter cred of the participants. Robert Scoble (Fast Company) Guillaume Cohen (Veodia) Gary Griffiths (LiteScape) Loic Le Meur (Seesmic) Alain Mowad (Polycom) The panelists introduced themselves and their businesses/offerings. The panel ranges across the spectrum

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

A monolith opens up

By Ben Kepes

Really interesting to read this article in BusinessWeek. It tells the tale of Unilever, the massive company that brings us such staple items as Vaseline(!) It seems Unilever is realising that the college graduates they’re trying to attract simply cannot function within a rigidly locked-down IT infrastructure, where outside-the-firewall IM,

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Joblogs launches!

By Ben Kepes

I met this morning with Steve from Joblogs – a startup out of Canada which launched their offering today. Joblogs is most readily described as CRM, relationship and management lite. It serves up a nice, intuitive and quick workspace which allows for the aggregation of contact information, email and documents

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud, Web x.0 1 Comment

Google and Office 2.0

By Ben Kepes

10 things I can do in the cloud today, that I couldn’t do a year ago. Keynote by head of the enterprise applications team, Matthew Glotzbach. He’s drunk from the Kool-Aid big time! It was a very Google centric presentation – but cool nonetheless. Everything on the go – iPhone

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Zoho docs – yet another reason operating systems will become irrelevant

By Ben Kepes

Zoho is launching Zoho docs today at the Office 2.0 conference. In essence Zoho Docs is a central place to manage all your personal documents. The same way Windows explorer helps manages your desktop files. It’s got all the good drag-and-drop goodness you’d expect from an explorer type product, integrates

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September 4, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 3 Comments

Xero testing Australian version

By Ben Kepes

This just in – I got a newsletter from Xero saying that they’re currently testing their Australian version and will be releasing soon. Another step in the global domination plan. It’s going to be real interesting to see Saasu and Xero go head to head. Bring it on…

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September 4, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, Web x.0 1 Comment

Good UI

By Ben Kepes

Session to led by Ruby developer Steve Bristol – What is the role of a UI? The goal is communication Intuitive/Expected/Easy Works for different users (novice/advanced) Built with empathy Makes users feel good Is simple Crap code + good UI = good app but Good code + crap UI =

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September 4, 2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Building better web communities

By Ben Kepes

Session one at the unconference was led by David Terrar and looked at building web communities – after his experience building one for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). Some interesting thoughts around "why to build communities". I pointed out that in fact we were discussing

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The Author

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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