Om posted about his requirements for an UMPC, netbook, handheld or whatever else you want to call it. Me I’ll always call it a cloudbook for in my definition this is a device that is poised to leverage…
One of my businesses is a design and manufacturing operation. Cactus manufactures backpacks and outdoors clothing. For years we’ve been using PAD which is a CAD/CAM software package to make patterns for the apparel industry. PAD works well but…
Some interesting data about the effect of banal and spammy apps on Facebook. In a predictable and cyclical process – higher traffic creates motivation for the spammers, whose influx onto the site then lessens growth. An ovum analyst cites…
Robert Scoble interviewed salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff in a broad ranging discussion about the future of applications and platforms. It’s an interesting and insightful interview. Key takeouts and themes were; It’s not about the browser, it’s about…
Sarah Lacy interviews Reid Hoffman to get his read on Web 2.0 business. The interview was recorded on the same day that LinkedIn had an outage so Sarah asks the obvious questions around outages and the harm they can…
Great to hear that under-the-radar New Zealand startup Pingar has been chosen as one of its arrows in the quiver it uses against Google. Pingar produces customised responses specific answer to queries. It does this by scraping content from…
As mentioned the other day, there have been a few rumblings from MYOB about SaaS – these have been hampered by the defection of their On-demand head to Xero. Credible insiders tell me that the MYOB offering (now called…
I’ve been talking to someone today about what the software industry and SaaS game is like to work in. Just saying it’s “fast-paced” or “ever changing” didn’t quite cut it. Those of us in the industry will appreciate my…
Over on Newsweek there is much concern and hand-wringing over the number of “friends” one can have on social networking sites. The author points out Facebook’s 5000 friend limitation and MySpace’s no-holds barred, bring as many as you like…
In my habitual blog trawling, I came across a post by Stuart Bale, MYOB‘s man behind their On-demand accounting offering. In the post (dated March) he spoke with some excitement about two developments; He’d written the first post on…