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Freaking superstars with no clue about the real world….

October 19, 2007

Business, Economic Development, New Zealand

Sorry to my international readers to whom this will have little relevance but I really needed to comment on this. Past NZ media star Susan Wood took up a job a week ago as GM of a local business …

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SaaS is ascendent…

October 19, 2007

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

Adobe stated at the web 2.0 summit hat it figures that within 10 years all of its products will be delivered via the web (ie SaaS as I define it – in the clouds). Bob discussed the practicalities –…

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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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