Live (well when I uploaded it anyway) pic – yes that’s my blog on the laptop screen. Things have just kicked off – we’ve got a great turn up – there were even a bunch of folks here early…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
New Zealand’s first (sorry about that Mike et al @ BarCampEgov) BarCamp is happening this Friday in Christchurch. I’m looking forward to it, even though I’m sure to be the least geek like presenter, I’m hopinh people will think…
I follow reasonably closely the number of visitors to my blog – I average around 100 visits a day which isn’t bad considering the subject matter is both eclectic and obscure. From comments I’ve received I seem to have…
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…