• Images lifted from MySpace private profiles….

    January 24, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Society, Web x.0
     

    News that  a file creator has compiled a 17Gb file containing over half a million images lifted from MySpace pages. Seems some of the images were public but significant numbers where from private profiles including those of under 16…

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  • Zoho wins crunchies award…

    January 24, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    I’ve previously talked about on-demand office productivity suite Zoho. I’m impressed by their offering and consider it ahead of Google aps in terms of functionality. Good to hear about them winning the award for “Best Enterprise Start-up” at the…

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  • VC’s tightening belts…

    January 23, 2008

    Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    A piece on the CIO site suggested that the fallout from the sub prime crash will lead to something of a belt tightening in the VC circles but not a bubble burst (yet). Salient points; Cleantech could be the…

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  • Usability guide for the 2.0 world….

    January 23, 2008

    IT, Web x.0
     

    With a hat tip to Mike (who is actually a nice guy in person AND online), have a look at this web 2.0 usability guide. As an aside it seems everyone has a different way of enunciating Web 2.0,…

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  • Results from the APNFinda/Google mashup…

    January 22, 2008

    New Zealand, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    I’ve got a meeting this week at the Savoy Brown, a nice little cafe in Christchurch. Being both a proponent and a user of SaaS solutions I naturally placed the invitation into my Google calendar. When I did so…

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  • Facebook and privacy (again)

    January 21, 2008

    Web x.0
     

    So the Facebook is evil editorial seems to have made the NZ newspapers. I tend not to subscribe to conspiracy theories and tend to be a bit blase about the whole privacy issue but an event this morning got…

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  • Security and passwords….

    January 19, 2008

    Design, IT, Web x.0
     

    Zoli has this great post discussing seciurity and password issues for web users. Like Zoli, I’m just like 61% of Internet users, using the same userid/password combination on all my sites. Recently we were visited by an old freind who…

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  • On Facebook for enterprise (again)

    January 16, 2008

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

    Troy posted about SuccessFactors using Facebook to allow a richer employee profile that goes beyond the structured data that is typically captured in a HCM (human capital management) service. Troy says; myself and colleagues I have discussed this with…

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  • Mark Zuckerberg on 60 minutes….

    January 15, 2008

    Web x.0
     

    Mark Zuckerberg is interviewed for CBS’ 60 minutes. He makes a few slips (but he is only 23 years old and not as media savvy as his CEO peers. As an aside the interview style makes me happy that…

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  • Google launches new UI for iPhone…

    January 15, 2008

    Design, IT, Web x.0
     

    On day 1 of Macworld, Google announced a new user interface for it’s suite of apps on the iPhone. In what can possibly be seen as a test run for a launch of google apps on their own mobile…

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