Blog Archives

Give up on the good guy/bad guy deal…

November 19, 2007

Business, Design, IT

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…

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NZTE responds to Xero grant criticism…

November 14, 2007

Business, Economic Development, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

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…

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Oh my… remember the $100 laptop?

November 14, 2007

Business, IT, Society, Strategy

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…

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Freeparking – great service….

November 14, 2007

Business, Efficiency, IT, My businesses

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,…

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Facebook advertising – how valuable is it really?

November 13, 2007

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

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…

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Sergey on Android or Sergey is an Android?

November 13, 2007

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

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…

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Analysts don’t neccessarily understand our paradigm.

November 13, 2007

Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS

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…

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Yellow pages starting to add some value…

November 13, 2007

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

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…

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Xero and the BNZ finally get Cosy….

November 12, 2007

Business, Design, IT, My businesses, New Zealand, SaaS

Xero announced the other day that the BNZ has become the latest bank to support fully automated bank reconciliations into Xero. I probably spend about four hours a month reconciling the bank accounts on the 3 businesses I run…

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Tomorrow life gets a little harder for Salesforce…

November 12, 2007

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

because Oracle will be releasing its SaaS CRM product squarely aimed at stopping Salesforce’s ascendancy in the enterprise market. At first it looks fantastic – bringing a real Web 2.0 feel to CRM, mashing up internal and external operatives…

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