Sitting at breakfast this morning, my wife an I were discussing Facebook and email. My wife is a bit of a late technology adopter, not being really “into it” the way I am. She takes a while to get…
One of my readers has decided to set himself up as a consultant helping with the deployment of various Web 2.0 products and services. Dan lists some of his offerings as; Google Apps for your Domain Xero accounting Google…
This is cool. Indian software entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia has created Live Documents by ripping of MS Office 2007. And, unlike Zoho and Google Apps which are Office alternatives, Live Documents seems to copy the Office UI in its entirety…
In an interesting reverse twist to Moore’s Law, articles have recently bought to our attention the potential speed degradation of the internet after 2010. Articles here and here discuss this issue in depth. The unreasonable men posted here about…
I’m a social computing evangelist, I’ve also been known to bang my head against brick walls in an effort to explain the “point” of social computing to corporates. Over at Smoothspan, Bob posted this excellent post looking at CxO’s…
In business, sticking to one’s knitting s generally a good plan. For a SaaS business, the knitting is, arguably, the development of a robust SaaS application with all the intricacies that involves. For some SaaS businesses what their knitting…
Google apps gets lots of press time but Zoho has database and application development options to go with its office productivity suite. Zoho creator is here. To really get traction for SaaS delivered office productivity, there can be no…
Well sort of. Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is going-live with her own start-up, 23andme. The idea of 23andme is that a customer sends swab samples and then for USD999 receives a complete DNA scan…
Matt over at SaaS player to watch Mural Venture posted this, claiming that the phone bill is a soon to be extinct relic of the past. The gist of his post is that the “conversational web” is creating a…
A buddy sent me a link to this post – seems the MS dynamics CRM gang are thinking mashup also and talk about a Facebook/CRM interface where Facebook profiles are populated into your CRM. Of course it begs some…