• Zoho wins crunchies award…

     

    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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  • Macbookair… revolutionary

     

    I’m gong to get lashed by some fanboys out there but what the hell. I saw this over on Rod’s blog and couldn’t resist…

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  • Another Kiwi software success story…

     

    IBIS Technology is a Queenstown based software developer producing booking systems for tourism operators, ticketing agent and inbound operators. Started by Erik Bradshaw in the mid-nineties it now employs six or seven people and has high profile clients in…

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  • PlanHQ – Friends of O’Reilly..

     

    Check out this video of Tim Norton from PlanHQ talking to Tim O’Reilly of Web2.0 fame. Tim is doing a copybook job of getting out, building profile and garnering attention – PlanHQ is a business to watch.

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  • VC’s tightening belts…

     

    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….

     

    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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  • Farewell iHug…

     

    News this morning that Vodafone is pulling the pin on the iHug brand. Not unexpected but still a little sad to see the end of a 15 year brand presence in New Zealand.

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  • Results from the APNFinda/Google mashup…

     

    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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  • The MySQL acquisition…

     

    A while ago I wrote a post discussing commercial imperatives for opensource software. That time I cam from a perspective of finding a natural intersect between the rabid community mindedness  of opensource with the rabid commercialism of SaaS (generalisations…

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  • Another succesful NZ startup…

     

    PowerbyProxi has developed a cool technology whereby power can be transmitted to products without wires. For example, the technology allows the wireless charging of cellphones or the powering-up of industrial robots. John Deere USA has taken an equity stake…

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