News that SaaSu is mashing up contact information within it’s SaaS accounting offering with information from LinkedIn, Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and Orkut.
SaaSu correctly points out that;
For a long time companies have not wanted to share ownership of customer and prospect relationships with their employees. These relationships have been owned by the company. LinkedIn allows employees (especially professionals with an eye to having their own business eventually) to de-institutionalise their contacts, taking back some of the dollar value from their employees balance sheet back to their own.
It’s another great point of difference for SaaS accounting, allowing it to become a relationshp management tool that is dynamic and automatic. It also allows qualitative business assesment of individuals, based on community feedback, a useful tool for both customer, supplier and potential employee assesments.
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. 
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