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Zoho launches business edition…

September 7, 2007

Business, IT, SaaS

News this morning that Zoho is releasing a business version of its imensely promising cloud based office application suite. Zoho looks good – much more functionality than Google apps and word on the street is that the Zoho business…

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Buying or starting a business…

September 6, 2007

Blogging, Business, Economic Development, Governance, New business, Strategy

A reader of my blog commented on my “So what DO you do” post with this request; Ben – I’m interested in your experiences in buying a business, was it a good idea, bad idea, what were the pitfalls…

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Of encumbency and when it’s time for a new strategy…

September 5, 2007

Business, Design, IT, Strategy

Uber search-chick Kaila posted this, discusing the potential or otherwise of Yahoo out-sourcing search to Google. I replied thus; Yahoo outsourcing search to Google is a tacit acceptance of the fact that Google is better at it than everyone…

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More on ISV’s moving to SaaS…

September 5, 2007

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

There’s a humdinger blog argument going on at the moment amongst the SaaS commentators. I lump myself with that bunch so I decided to chip in my little bit. Anshua Sharma started it off with this post criticising the…

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Who is in the clouds and who isn’t?

September 5, 2007

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

Zoli posted over here about a couple of incongruous anomalies. He, like I, uses Google’s Picasa application, which is a single PC photo catalogue app that, surprisingly doesn’t work well on a network or across the web. And yes,…

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Xero and vision….

September 4, 2007

Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy

Rod is in town and this morning I had a chance to meet him face to face. I’ve been talking about SaaS in general and Xero in particular for a few months now, so I guess he wanted to…

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BarCampChristchurch – getting all practical….

September 3, 2007

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

I spoke today to Dan from ConnectNZ. He’s coming to BarCampChristchurch on Friday and was ringing to get a little guidance as to what he should talk about and how he should pitch the level of his presentation. I…

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SaaS and what does it do for vulnerability?

September 1, 2007

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

There has been some very interesting discussion lately about SaaS and whether it leaves users more or less vulnerable than traditional local apps. Discussions looking at the issue from a “SaaS is riskier” perspective have been started by John…

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SaaS/s and SaaS/v post…

August 31, 2007

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

Over here at SaaS blogs, Sinclair has posted about what he refers to as SaaS with ROF (Regular Old Functionality) as opposed to SaaS with ROF + Value. This is a very similar theme to my previous post about…

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Nokia and public relations….

August 30, 2007

Business, Design, Efficiency, Manufacturing, Strategy

This is a post that I hope will find its way into Nokia NZ or Nokia international’s public relations department. A month or so ago I acquired a new Nokia 6630 phone. Pretty much straight away it was obvious…

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