• More on banking 2.0 (PLEASE READ BNZ!)

    December 18, 2007

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

    So… I’m a customer of the BNZ, have been for 30 odd years now. I run about 8 different bank accounts through them as well as credit cards and seven figures worth of borrowing – I guess that makes…

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  • Google Knol – tempting evil?

    December 16, 2007

    Business, Design, Efficiency, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    For those still unaware, Google is introducing Knol, a tool that allows people to create articles about distinct subject areas and post them on specialised, Google hosted pages. The difference between Knol and Wikipedia is that while Wikipedia relies…

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  • LinkedIn fights back

    December 15, 2007

    Business, IT, Web x.0
     

    I’ve said for awhile that LinkedIn is as likely as any of the other incumbents to win the social netowrking war. The reason for this is that their more business orientated focus gives them the basis from which to…

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  • Google and accounting…

    December 14, 2007

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    With a hat tip to a clean shaven Mike, this post over on RWW surmises that an online accounting system might be in the pipline from Google. The rationale for the idea of Google entering this space is pretty…

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  • So which on-demand office suite will win?

    December 13, 2007

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    I’m a firm believer in the ascendency of on-demand office productivity suites. Offerings from Google, Microsoft, Zoho and others are making the space kind of busy. I have to say that Zoho seems to be the pick of the…

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  • Google/apnfinda mash up

    December 13, 2007

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    Google has linked with apnfinda to create a director 2.0 service for New Zealand. Early days yet but it appears the servce will have the following functionality; directory listing for businesses view directory entries along with full mapping functionality…

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  • Online MS Office launched…

    December 11, 2007

    Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    Sort of… Office Live Workspace is in beta release now. Unlike Google apps it isn’t a truly online collaboration package, more a service to allow central storage and document sharing between users. It seems they’ve gone down to distinct…

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  • Is usability important?

    December 10, 2007

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

    Well of course it bleeding well is, which is why I was incredulous to even see that Michael Krigsman suggests that enterprise software doesn’t need to be “sexy” (and the term is misleading and ambiguous) the original post by…

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  • I love it – slutbots on attack…

    December 9, 2007

    IT, Society, Web x.0
     

    I’m way to busy to spend time cruising online “adult forums”, apart from any matrimonial sense of loyalty, I’m sure I’d feel a real sense of guilt at not using the time to prepare a presentation or get in…

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  • Mark apologises…

    December 7, 2007

    Business, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg posted this apology for the recent debacles over their beacon information sharing system. The trusting (read naive) part of me wants to congratulate Mark on his honesty, accept that it was an honest mistake and let…

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