Seems like Telstra might be in the same boat as our Telecom. Idea: Rent out Paul Reynolds to Telstra for $20mill/annum, that way we’d quickly make some money off him and also see if his strategy works
Following on from a post over on Rod’s blog, I followed a link to Turnstone. Turnstone seems (at first glance) to be a good example of a next-generation micro-telco. They do lots of good VoIP, fax to anything, toll-bypass,…
Zoho has just released Zoho DB. A spreadsheet/database/presentation tool. Functionality includes; Access anywhere – Create, edit and access your databases from anywhere Convert spreadsheet to online databases – Import .csv, .tsv files and manage your data and reports over…
I just read this article which is quite upbeat on the chances of new Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds being able to turn the telco around. British telco analyst Mike Cansfield believes Reynolds will prove more open, more clearly strategic…
So….. the new Radiohead album is out. Want to buy it? Go to the Radiohead site where it is available for download. Purchase price? It’s up to you. Yep with no DRM and a user set purchase price, Radiohead…
Rod had this frustrated post about the set-in-stone strategic mindset of our telcos. He is dead right of course – telcos have a heightened sense of their own importance and believe that repackaging an existing product or service with…
It’s amazing what happens to a company once they introduce a SaaS offering…… SAP’s TechEd07 conference opened the other day and who else as speaking but king of Web 2.0 O’Reilly himself. Some selected quotes from O’Reilly’s presentation; “Web…
Another person I talked to at the function this morning was Abby Foote, CEO of Fundit. Fundit is a semi-SaaS start-up that allows users to run a private reverse auction for a home loan. Funders can come to the…
Adobe buys Buzzword a pre-full release flash based word processor. As Rod mentioned in his blog, the office 2.0 space is pretty open, Google docs lacks the functionality that real users require and Zoho isn’t quite up to speed…
Smoothspan had a three part series interviewing the CEO of Concur. Some great quotes; “SaaS accelerates sales. You can’t argue with the numbers. Cycles are shorter in every segment. The reason is lower up-front capital commitment. The Customer is…