In the past I’ve gone on record telling people that it is premature to analyse Xero post IPO, given that they have a three year plan and they’ve only just embarked upon it. What then is my reaction to…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg posted this apology for the recent debacles over their beacon information sharing system. The trusting (read naive) part of me wants to congratulate Mark on his honesty, accept that it was an honest mistake and let…
Early next year I’ll be presenting at an outsourcing ICT summit in Auckland. One of the people I have plenty of time and respect for in the SaaS space is Sinclair Schuller of Apprenda. Sinclair posted this excellent discussion…
A couple of posts in the last day or two got me thinking of some added value for SaaS. Over at the unreasonablemen they discuss the differences between ASPs of old and SaaS of today – the premise being…
At the enterprise 2.0 conference in Sydeney (and no I’m not there but watching from a distance), Rosie Mullaly from Telstra in Australia gave a presentation on how her organisation utilisises social networking. Telstra has an initiative, nowwearetalking.com.au, that…
I love this. Actually I don’t – I had an elevator pitch all ready that leveraged off 2.0 enabled friendship bracelets with some trick AJAX stuff…. now I’ll have to go back to the drawing board… Enjoy (and hat…
Troy Wing is a fellow Kiwi who seems to be going great guns in the stateside IT industry – it’s nice to have such role models to aspire to. In an excellent post today, Troy made some comparisons about…
The unreasonablemen posted about their experience with a very backwards banking system. I’ve posted about it before and I’m sure I will again, the current banking offerings that exist are as 1.0 as anything else there – they only…
So – unsurprisingly Facebook did a partial turnaround on its privacy policy for Beacon, deciding that consent would be required before users activity data was published. Posts have claimed that this is the “canary in the coalmine” event for…
Now there’s a title to fire up my more left leaning readers…… Deborah Hill-Cone wrote this morning on the new legislation in New Zealand that is designed to coerce employers into offering flexible employment arrangements. Deborah says; The flexible…