Blog Archives

Google on shaky ground?

July 13, 2008

Business, Design, Governance, IT, Strategy

google, Microsoft

Kaila bought my attention to a Silicon Alley post that is a pretty stark assertion about Google. It seems an anonymous Silicon Valley insider claims that it’s not just Yahoo with significant internal strife, he claims Microsoft, eBay and…

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Last months Unlimited article…

July 12, 2008

Business, Economic Development, Strategy

professional advisers, unlimited

Most readers will be aware that as well as blogging I also write for traditional print media. My regular gig is Unlimited Magazine, a New Zealand magazine for the new economy. Here’s my June article – where I have…

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Ellison on SaaS…

July 12, 2008

Business, Design, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy

netsuite, oracle, Salesforce.com

Sometimes it’s hard to know how to take Ellison’s missives on SaaS. Bear in mind that Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, is also the founder and largest single shareholder in Netsuite (and also a major shareholder, for good measure…

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Some things are best left to private industry…

July 11, 2008

Business, Collaboration, Design, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, My businesses, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

ird, mission-on

A couple of announcements of late have me scratching my head in wonderment. First comes the post by Bernard Hickey about MissionOn. I posted about MissionOn back in February (yes, you saw it here first) and my appraisal was…

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Sometime imitation is more than flattery, it’s good strategy

July 11, 2008

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

identi.ca, twitter

Much talk of late has centred around the difficulties that Twitter has had scaling its infrastructure. Given the vacuum left by the regular and annoying downtime that Twitter faces, people have been discussing the alternatives – many a new…

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On the move to the clouds, an awesome post…

July 11, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy

cloud computing

Stacey Higginbotham wrote a provocative post that fired up a lot of people detailing 10 reasons why cloud computing won’t take of within enterprise. The post is great – but more importantly there are some exceptional responses from different…

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Broadband uptake survey

July 10, 2008

Business, Efficiency, IT, Society, Strategy

broadband

GigaOm pointed out a couple of new pieces of research about broadband penetration, speeds and consumer demand in the US. It’s a pretty interesting report but there are a couple of parts that stand out for me; Low income…

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SaaS pricing – what’s the best strategy?

July 10, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy

pricing strategies

I noticed the other day that Saasu have changed their pricing strategy – after comments from their customers, they determined that a much simple pricing structure was in order and delivered one. It seems there are two distinct strategies…

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Peeling the onion – Microsoft’s S+S..

July 9, 2008

Business, Collaboration, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy

Microsoft, S+S

When Microsoft revealed Equipt the other day (Diversity coverage here) there was much discussion as to whether it amounted to the totality of MS’s SaaS offering). Well we didn’t have to wait long for an answer. At its worldwide…

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The prognosis for email…

July 9, 2008

Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT

email, gmail, im, sms, xobni

Over on RWW, Alex Iskold posted about email, asking whether or not it is in danger. Alex pointed out that there are some threats to email, in the form of Twitter, Instant messaging and SMS. Alex came up with…

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