Completely off topic but leaving home for a week and a half always makes me miss the family. A couple of beautiful quotes from the past day from my sons; 8 year old; I really think John key should…
News the other day that the IceLab, part of Auckland incubator The Icehouse is conducting a survey looking at the IT decision made by SMEs in New Zealand. I’ve long been adamant that SMEs in this country share common…
CRM is a really valuable tool that only now has become available to those on the smaller end of the business spectrum. Zoho is hosting a free webinar on “CRM Best Practices” in a few days. Most of you…
I have to blog about this. Good friend, web visionary and generally nice guy Mauricio Freitas, founder of Geekzone, forwarded me this email from a PR person. I’ve removed the details to protect identities but count the number of…
Now that’s a mouth-full! Mike alerted me to this interim document put out by the State Services Commission of New Zealand. The document seeks to give some guidance to government agencies looking at using offshore ICT providers and seek…
At the risk of reiterating what’s been said lots of places before – we’re facing a perfect economic storm in tech land. But unlike the dot com burst and ensuing nuclear winter, this one is way more systemic. This…
A week or two ago Mauricio posted asking ISPs to work in niches in order to differentiate themselves from the norm. His comments related manly to speed and traffic customizations but news from GoDaddy (via RWW) shows that there…
Well not ugly – just not full of Web 2.0 rounded corners et al. I’m talking about Zoho mail, after the announcement the other day that it’s gone offline with Google gears. I’m an outlier I guess – I…
Over on Geekzone Mauricio wants to send someone into space. Here on Diversity we’re not up to that level (yet) but we do want to send someone to the bleeding edge. I’m a firm believer in the Net PC…
You’d think that the NZX would be concentrating on the general fight for financial survival right now. All-credit to them then for launching a blog specifically as a platform to; receive and respond to feedback, questions and ideas following…