• Microsoft and its own advice.

    February 22, 2008

    Design, IT, Strategy
     

    Over on GapingVoid, the following story is told; During my time in Korea it was relayed to me that Burnett Chicago had a shot at the Microsoft advertising account. Having created icons for some of the most prominent brands…

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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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  • Peter Griffin on FTTH…

    February 21, 2008

    Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Society
     

    Peter Griffin writes about his experience witnessing the Dutch program of Government rolling out Fibre to the Home (FTTH) throughout Amsterdam. Peter says; The Dutch, you see, are where New Zealand needs to be this time next year –…

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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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  • The technical challenges of Yahsosoft….

    February 20, 2008

    Efficiency, IT, Strategy
     

    An interesting article about the challenges that would be faced merging applications and infrastructure were the Microsoft/Yahoo merger to go ahead. Some interesting quotes that indicate just how much Microsoft considers itself to be a walled-garden; Microsoft’s data centers…

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  • Samsung moves into Google’s space?

    February 20, 2008

    Design, IT, Society
     

    This is cool, Samsung has developed a product, the See’N’Search, which is a set-top box that that is able to read the closed captions on a television show, as well as listens for keywords, to search for related Internet…

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  • Gartner’s predictions…

    February 19, 2008

    IT
     

    Gartner has published its 10 top Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond. Not surprisingly a move to the clouds and SaaS based delivery feature highly. The 10 predictions (with my comments after) are; 1. Mac…

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  • Xero rolling out some cool new features…

    February 19, 2008

    Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy
     

    SaaS accounting startup Xero has rolled out some cool new features this week. Most useful is Tracking which allows categories and options to be set up for different parts of the business’ operation. The example Xero gives is different…

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  • Is free viable?

    February 19, 2008

    Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy
     

    I received a press release from those great people over at Zoho this morning. The release went like this; February 18th, 2008 ‘Office 14’ to be more Web-friendly, but will it be wallet-friendly? I just came across this article…

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