Blog Archives

Benioff on the future…

June 21, 2008

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

benioff, salesforce, scoble

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…

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Reid Hoffman on Web 2.0

June 20, 2008

Business, IT, New business, Strategy, Web x.0

Facebook, linkedin, reid hoffman

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…

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Microsoft uses Kiwi company in it’s Google battle

June 20, 2008

Business, IT, New business, New Zealand

google, microsfot, pingar

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…

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MYOB’s first SaaS offering…

June 19, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy

MYOB, Xero

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…

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The Software Industry – in a Nutshell!

June 19, 2008

Business

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…

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Let’s give up pretending that "friends" means friends…

June 19, 2008

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

Facebook, myspace, social networking

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…

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Can you innovate within an incumbent – SaaS for ISV’s…

June 18, 2008

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

businessbasicsonline, larry ellison, MYOB, netsuite

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…

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Skype 4.0 beta

June 18, 2008

Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy

skype, videoconferencing, voip

Skype is rolling out a beta version of its newest software and it marks a distinct change in tack for the company. Skype’s formative days were centred around voice communications, video functionality had been something of a bolt on…

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California shuts down genetic testing start-ups…

June 18, 2008

Business, New business, Society, Strategy

23andme, genentech, genetic testing, google

News that 13 direct-to-consumer genetic testing services have been sent cease-and-desist letters from the Californian Department of Public Health after concerns about the tests accuracy and cost. Especially interesting considering one of the best known of the companies, 23andMe,…

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Can you really trust a bootstrapped startup?

June 18, 2008

Business, Design, IT, New business, SaaS, Web x.0

privacy, security

RWW reports that online storage company DivShare, has had a security breach. Apparently a malicious user accessed their database which included user e-mail addresses and other profile information. They also say that no financial information has been accessed by…

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