• Rod Drury and Eric Schmidt – soulmates?

    February 27, 2008

    IT, Strategy
     

    The Unreasonablemen draw an interesting parallel between our own Rod Drury and Google’s Eric Schmidt in this post. Quote of note from Schmidt; As more and more people conduct online searches and interact with applications like Gmail, Google Earth…

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  • Our trading partners lack faith in us too…

    February 27, 2008

    Economic Development, New Zealand, Strategy
     

    News this morning that a NZTE survey of some of New Zealand’s main trading partners show that they consider us unsophisticated when it comes to business accumen.Interestingly enough Australia took a differing point of view but then again they…

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  • Office productivity apps, a rebuttal…

    February 26, 2008

    Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    A recent discussion on RWW got a number of people hot under the collar. To summarise, a post was written detailing why the author believed that Google apps was a serious threat to Microsoft office. In a fairly vitriolic…

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  • The impact of Scale and Economics on SaaS and broadband

    February 25, 2008

    SaaS
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    NOTE: this is a mirror post of my unreasonablemen.net blog. There have been a few posts recently about broadband in NZ, some well thought through, others not so. The crux of this issue is about scale & economics. This…

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  • On enterprise 2.0…

    February 25, 2008

    Design, IT, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    This morning I had a thoroughly entertaining chat with Michael Sampson. Michael’s work, from his own website, is all about improving the capability of teams that can’t be together, to work together. Or more simply, on collaboration. Michael’s an…

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  • In the clouds DB gets VC funding…

    February 24, 2008

    Design, IT, SaaS
     

    Blist, the in the clouds database solution for dummies, just got USD6.5mill in series A funding. The Blist product looks nice – full of Flex goodness. I’ve been having a play with it at home on my 256k, miles…

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  • Subprime 101…

    February 24, 2008

    Society
     

    It’s been doing the blog rounds but I thought it worthwhile to mention this quick guide to the sub prime crisis. Well worth a look but be warned that the language is a little rough around the edges

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  • SkyDriveLive is ….Live

    February 22, 2008

    IT, Web x.0
     

    With a hat tip to the fantastic Mauricio, news that SkyDriveLive, Microsoft’s in the clouds storage system is now up and running. Salient points; It’s free Maximum storage of 5Gb Available in 38 countries Doing all your computing in…

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  • Fighting for peace….

    February 22, 2008

    New Zealand, Society
     

    I remember a saying from my youth that “Fighting for peace is like [expletive deleted] for virginity”. In a similar way comes an interesting post from Jim about a novel approach towards getting kids active that has been taken…

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  • Microsoft and its own advice.

    February 22, 2008

    Design, IT, Strategy
     

    Over on GapingVoid, the following story is told; During my time in Korea it was relayed to me that Burnett Chicago had a shot at the Microsoft advertising account. Having created icons for some of the most prominent brands…

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