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  • In-depth with Benioff

    August 8, 2008

    Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
    marc benioff, salesforce, sarah lacy
     

    A hat tip to Daniel for pointing out that Sarah Lacy got to interview Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff – you ca tell that Sarah was please as punch to have got Benioff, she even dragged out her ladylike dress,…

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  • Voda joins the 20th century, and other carrier gossip

    August 7, 2008

    Business, IT, New Zealand
    Telecom, vodafone
     

    It seems Vodafone New Zealand have rolled out their own forums. Thus far there are a few posts – mainly from Voda spin doctor (and really nice guy by the way) Paul Brislen. We should be positive that Voda…

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  • Make your PC green…

    August 7, 2008

    Business, Business and the Environment, Cleantech
    edison, greewash, verdiem
     

    Verdiem, a company specialising in reducing energy waste for enterprises, has released a downloadable application, Edison, that seeks to reduce energy use on PCs. I downloaded and installed the application (which is kind of nice in its design and…

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  • Now that’s a nice shaped curve

    August 7, 2008

    Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
    office 2.0, Zoho
     

    Raju from Zoho flicked me an email which was embargoed until right now (assuming I’ve got my time zones right – otherwise this is either a scoop or old news 🙂 ) to tell me that they’ve just gone…

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  • Build the use case – coverage or speed?

    August 6, 2008

    Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    broadband
     

    I’ve been taking part lately in a broadband strategy group looking to improve Internet access in North Canterbury – it’s an important discussion that I’m happy to be part of. I’ve got pretty annoyed however about the hollow platitudes…

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  • RWW’s got it wrong…

    August 6, 2008

    Business, Design, IT, Strategy, Web x.0
    advertising, free, google, vortexdna
     

    Firstly I have to say that I greatly respect ReadWriteWeb. Partly because anyone who can build a global media empire from a Lower Hutt suburban home deserves kudos, but also because RWW founder and editor Richard Macmanus is a…

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  • Some cool stuff for SAP

    August 6, 2008

    Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, Strategy
    esme, SAP
     

    Has social media found a role within enterprise? I know it’s hard to believe but people are doing some really cool stuff for SAP. A bunch of geographically distributed people from various stakeholders (industry observers, Siemens, Adobe, SAP insiders…

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  • Dell – It’s all about proprietary

    August 5, 2008

    Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
    Dell
     

    This is one for the "wow that’s amazing file". It seems that Dell is attempting to trademark the term "cloud computing". Dell is defending it’s application noting that in the past twelve months (since the application has been in)…

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  • Ouch MobileMe gets Scoble-roasted!

    August 4, 2008

    Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
    Apple, Mobileme
     

    El Jobso won’t be liking this – yep the Cupertino-kids, kings (usually) of execution get roasted by Scoble after his experience of having his calendar entries deleted by MobileMe. I’d be thinking that heads will be rolling down the…

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  • Going in to bat for the big boys…

    August 4, 2008

    Business, Design, IT, Strategy
    Microsoft, mojave, vista
     

    I have a habit of sticking up for the big boys sometimes on this blog. This post is another example of just that. Firstly I need to admit that I downgraded my new laptop to XP Pro – Vista…

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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