• New Digital Strategy Advisory Group

    March 26, 2008

    IT, New Zealand
     

    Announced today that the Government will set up a new advisory group to represent the various interested parties in ICT in this country. IT Minister David Cunliffe said Creating a digital future for New Zealanders requires collaboration from a…

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  • Incredulous….

    March 26, 2008

    IT, New Zealand
     

    I’m up in Auckland for the next two days at a conference. It’s being held at an up-market, seemingly business-savvy and central city hotel. It’s an IT conference and so obviously the hotel realises a bunch of tech connected…

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  • Lessons for SaaS vendors..

    March 25, 2008

    Design, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy
     

    With a hat tip to Matt, check out this excellent article giving some lessons learnt and thoughts from the authors experience running SaaS businesses. It is in answer to Byron’s Top 10 Laws for Being “SaaS-y”. To summarise, the…

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  • On Telecom and internet for SMEs

    March 25, 2008

    Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS
     

    A press release yesterday announced a new small business ISP soon to come from Telecom. The new ISP, according to the release, will provide hosting, domain name registration, web design and SaaS applications. Over on his blog, Lance has…

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  • More on the move from desktop to web apps…

    March 24, 2008

    Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    An excellent post over on TechCrunch got me looking once again at Mozilla Prism. For those of you new to it, Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the…

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  • Call me mainstream…

    March 22, 2008

    Business
     

    In a moment of respite from organising children’s birthday parties, I took the Facebook political compass test. In the words of the application creator, The Political Compass positions you on both an economic and a social axis through your…

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  • And you thought Ponoko was smart?

    March 21, 2008

    New business
     

    (and I agree by the way, Ponoko is smart) But check this out; take one flatbed scanner, some engineering smarts and some edible ink and look what you get; Someone hire this guy – he’ll make you millions… Hat…

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  • The Babel fish cometh…

    March 21, 2008

    SaaS
     

    RWW posted this morning about the Google release of there machine translation software via API. Apparently the new API can handle language detection, so potentially the possibility is opened up to have cross language IM chats via the software…

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  • What’s coming for Xero…

    March 20, 2008

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

    A browse of the Xero website this afternoon shows a list of some features due to be released in the coming months. Stuff to look out for includes; Job costing Multi-currency Quoting Statements The full comparison chart is here.…

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  • Censorship alive and kicking….

    March 20, 2008

    New Zealand, Society
     

    Print media is so out of touch with reality… News this morning that Fairfax media hired casual staff in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to remove pages 5 and 6, 45 and 46 from about 200,000 copies of the Sunday…

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