I’m giving new Telecom CEO Paul Renolds the benefit of the doubt – he’s an international player with a tonne of experience and if anyone can pull Telecom out of it’s mire (well I reckon I could help a…
An excellent post over here by Joe Cooper on revenue generating strategies for FOSS players. there’s lots there for SaaS players to think about as well. Good stuff…
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,…
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…
Over on Rods blog, Paul from unreasonablemen posted this seemingly throwaway comment; “Incidentally, POTS is the greatest SaaS ever provide” This got me thinking, about telcos so I thought Id look at this some more. Wikipedia defines SaaS thusly;…
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…
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…
An interesting event this morning. Pul Hargreaves from DataCom gave a presentation. Some salient facts; Ben trading for 42 years $400mill turnover 2100 staff Still privately It’s refreshing to hear that there are some other options to either public…