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Ruby a pretty good first foray

June 24, 2008

Blogging, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Society, Strategy

community, the ruby connection, westpac

(and I’m not talking about Ruby on Rails) I’m currently in the throes of doing some work around creating a business community (more to come on that one) and in my research I came across The Ruby Connection, the…

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Gears for Docs and Reader and Windows Live Writer – nice!

June 12, 2008

Blogging, Business, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0

google gears, live writer

Firefox 3 RC2 has at last got access to Google gears so I’ve taken the opportunity to do some offline web app work. As I type I’m reading some posts on Google reader, editing some Google docs and writing…

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CEOs fronting up…

June 10, 2008

Blogging, Strategy

Its disappointingly rare in New Zealand to have CEOs front up and talk to industry commentators (or consumers even). Smaller software company CEOs tend to be prepared to do it (this blog has hosted conversations with the CEOs of…

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DiversityTV – Rod Drury interview part one

May 22, 2008

Blogging, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy

diversitytv, vidcast, Xero

At the small business expo in Christchurch, Ben took the opportunity to interview a number of businesses. In the first interview to be posted, we talk to Rod Drury, co-founder and CEO of Xero about some of the decisions…

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Installing WordPress on a local machine…

May 17, 2008

Blogging, IT

LAMP, wordpress, XAMPP, xp

Reading yesterday of Mauricio’s problems with the Geekzone outage, I decided to review my backup procedures. I’ve always run an automated backup off this blog on a weekly basis, but in all honestly never knew for sure if I…

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Welcome to seesmic….

April 25, 2008

Blogging

seesmic, vidcasting

I’ve not as yet joined the realm of the podcasters out there, however an invite code to seesmic made me think about starting a foray in vidcasting. Firstly I’d be keen to hear readers opinions on whether vidcasting is…

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Blogging… a health warning..

April 8, 2008

Blogging, IT, Society, Strategy

At 530am this morning when I got up to check my RSS feeds, I was faced by this article in the New York Times, decrying the dangers of blogging and using the example of the health impacts recently seen…

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NetGuide web awards

March 17, 2008

Blogging, New Zealand

It’s that time of year again – voting for the NetGuide web awards has opened. If you have a favourite ISP, e-commerce site or even Blog click here to vote.

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Innovative marketing… from New Zealand?

March 3, 2008

Blogging, IT, New Zealand

Interesting to hear this morning of the Geekzone Visual Studio 2008 blog. Geekzone has partnered with Microsoft to bring an advertising funded, but still useful, limited time blog centered around, not surprisingly, Microsoft’s Visual Studio product. It seems to…

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New Author

February 7, 2008

Blogging, IT, SaaS

For awhile now I’ve been thinking of creating more of a platform for analysis and commentary about SaaS. Diversity has two specific arms – consultancy and commentary – both of these arms are bigger than any one person and…

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