• SkyDriveLive is ….Live

    February 22, 2008

    IT, Web x.0
     

    With a hat tip to the fantastic Mauricio, news that SkyDriveLive, Microsoft’s in the clouds storage system is now up and running. Salient points; It’s free Maximum storage of 5Gb Available in 38 countries Doing all your computing in…

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  • Accounting SaaS….

    February 21, 2008

    Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
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    There’s an interesting duality going on in Australasia around SaaS delivered SME accounting. On the one side you have SaaSu, the Australian solution with a nine year history of development and deployment. In the other corner we have Xero,…

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  • Meet Yahoo’s strategy team….

    February 20, 2008

    Strategy, Web x.0
     

    If you’re looking to do a deal, and want to find the biggest shiester to maximise your advantage, there’s a little Middle-Eastern country that specialises in producing fast talking deal makers. Witness below the Yahoo chief negotiator….

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  • More on the cloud, and scaling, and IT departments…

    February 20, 2008

    Design, IT, Web x.0
     

    Following on from the traffic generated through the recent Amazon outage, Alex Iskold posted this fantastic treatise over on Read/Write web. Alex raises some excellent points that will be anathema to his enterprise readers. He says; SLA vs. Common…

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  • You need another reason to live in the clouds?

    February 18, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    I would have thought that the gang at Yahoo would have very little time to do anything but to; a) plan possible partnerships that could avoid the grips of the microborg b) look for other jobs once the deal…

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  • Outsourcing infrasturucture – the S3 flipside…

    February 16, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    In somewhat unfortunate timing, ZDnet blogger Phil Waineright posted saying that SaaS vendors that don’t have an outsourced perspective of infrastructure are something of an anachronism. Phil quoted the following; many established SaaS application providers are applying much more…

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  • Facebook quicker to respond to concerns?

    February 15, 2008

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

    The New York Times went public with concerns around the fact that Facebook users were unable to delete their accounts. Within days Facebook responded, giving users a link to click to delete all their entries (rather than having to…

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  • BT and Bebo

    February 14, 2008

    Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    So…. rumours are that British Telecom tried to buy Bebo. Both sides are denying but nonetheless it is an interesting prospect. Let’s look at BT – clearly they are a major platform player with significant cash and an ongoing…

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  • Bill Gates and social networking…

    February 13, 2008

    Governance, IT, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    Sources tell us that Bill Gates has topped using Facebook. And it’s not just Facebook, WSJ reports that  the amount of time the average person spends on a social-networking site has dropped 14% over the last four months. Apparently…

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  • Easy…. does it….

    February 13, 2008

    Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    It’s no secret that I’m a fan of software that resides “in the clouds”. My use of an installed office productivity suite is very much under duress. This duress is a reflection that the vast majority of the worlds…

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