• Facebook and censorship…

    October 19, 2007

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

    I just got an email from Facebook that said; Hello, You have been sending harassing messages to other users. This is a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. Among other things, messages that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are…

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  • How not to do marketing….

    October 19, 2007

    Business, Design, New Zealand
     

    So… Noel Leemings, one of NZ’s biggest electronic retailers, hired Erin Brokovich to front  a marketing campaign for them. Readers of the NZ herald newspaper said; “Customer service is non-existent,” one reader wrote while another described visiting the store…

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  • PaaS is alive, long live PaaS

    October 18, 2007

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

    In a very reasonable post, the unreasonable men discuss PaaS. Background: PaaS is platforms as a service. It’s about offering an online platform complete with the application development, data storage and other tools required to run multi-tenanted, massively scalable…

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  • Cloud computing done wrong

    October 18, 2007

    Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    Zoli posted over here about Zonbu, an ultra cheap, ultra low power, cloud computing device. He also went on to detail some of the limitations of the device – namely limited storage (on board) and limitation in terms of…

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  • An excellent comment….

    October 18, 2007

    Business, IT, Strategy
     

    Rod has posted about doing business in The Valley. Some conflicting comments ensued but the comment of the day follows; In a world where everyone knows everything, there’s no shortage of great ideas . . just people who can…

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  • Raising capital for tech companies…

    October 18, 2007

    Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy
     

    On November 3rd the NZ stock exchange will be hosting a one day seminar looking at capital raising issues for NZ tech companies. Clearly given that it’s run by the NZX the emphasis will be on IPO’s. I wouldn’t…

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  • Google and Apple ruling the world…

    October 18, 2007

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

    Bob posted about a previous Nick Carr post surrounding a Google/Apple mass collaboration model. Nick’s concept went something like this; Apple is taking responsibility for “the user interface and people.” It’s designing the devices themselves, which will be typically…

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  • That’s taking networks to ridiculous levels….

    October 18, 2007

    Business
     

    One from the “that didn’t really happen did it?” file…. GigaOm reports that Cisco Brazil got raided by the police, a number of people including the Cisco Brazil President have been arrested and it all revolves around some dodgy…

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  • Microsoft the PBX (and Telco?) killer

    October 18, 2007

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

    Mural Ventures post about Microsoft’s move into unified communications. Seems MS Office Communications Server, in effect, allows an enterprise user to become a PBX tech, running their phone “system” from their desktop and routing calls from their headset. Questions…

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  • IT week on SaaS accounting…

    October 17, 2007

    Business, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy
     

    Over here Rod Newing from UK’s IT week talks about Saas accounting. Some interesting quotes, for all of us but especially Rod; “a new vendor will emerge and dominate the accounting systems market. It will be well-written global software…

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