Matt over at SaaS player to watch Mural Venture posted this, claiming that the phone bill is a soon to be extinct relic of the past. The gist of his post is that the “conversational web” is creating a…
A buddy sent me a link to this post – seems the MS dynamics CRM gang are thinking mashup also and talk about a Facebook/CRM interface where Facebook profiles are populated into your CRM. Of course it begs some…
This announcement regarding Apple Leopard’s security weaknesses made me smile. Now I love Apple and would prefer to chose one over a PC, but preference is not zealotry and I can’t stand the hyper-emotional, and less than based on…
I posted a few days ago after a discussion I had with Rod Drury abut Xero. Some readers commented with concern about the fact that a seemingly well funded business was deemed eligible for funding from Government organisations such…
It looks like One Laptop Per Child has come a little unstuck. What started as an altruistic attempt to create a USD100 laptop to provide to third world countries with Government buy-in and support, has morphed into a…. well…
As you’ll notice, I’ve shifted my blog to my own domain. I spent a bit of time hunting around for someone to host the site and finally decided on a local (well only an hour away) ISP – freeparking,…
There’s been a big of discussion in the past few days about the value or otherwise of Facebook’s social advertising service. Commentators have passed judgement here, here and here among other places. Assetbar has the telling quote of the…
Some sneak peeks at the Google Android Mobile platform and announcement of the Google USD10mill developers challenge. I have to say Android is an appropriate moniker – just listen to Sergey’s monologue – I guess a net worth of…
Ken Bender, US market analyst is pessimistic of the ability of SaaS businesses to gain traction in our market – Ken was key ntoe speaker at the NZX Tech in the markets event last weekend. Rod has responded quite…
News today that the Yellow Pages is set to relaunch with “Facebook-esque” social networking features. It’s a feature set that isn’t entirely dissimilar to that offered by the BT Tradespace and an excellent from a directory 1.0 offering to…