Google is announcing its OpenSocial project. OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks: Profile Information (user data) Friends Information…
And the winner is….. 2007’s fastest growing New Zealand company is EnergyMad – the energy efficiency company that brought us eco-bulbs (and is now trying to bring them to the world) With almost 3000% revenue growth between 2005 and…
Tonight I’m attending the Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 Award ceremony. The Fast 50 recognises the 50 fastest growing businesses in New Zealand and is an expression of the fact that Hi-growth is the way ahead for New Zealand. I’l report…
I’ve been sitting around wondering when my Gmail acount would be IMAP enabled. Getting bored I played around with the settings and selected English (US) as my Gmail display language. Et voila – IMAP is enabled and working –…
Introduction – OLPC aims to create a USD100 rugged laptop for use in developing nations. To get a laptop that cheap it has to take advantage of free and open source software. OLPC have Microsoft developing a very cut…
Mega company (by New Zealand standards anyway) Fonterra has just announced that it will be outsourcing some IT functions to India. Fonterra’s outsourcing strategy is aimed at reducing duplication of backroom support functions such as human resources, information services…
News just in, US company Diligent that provides a SaaS product for board members to access meeting papers will list on the NZ stock exchange. Diligent already has a division in Christchurch and is looking to leverage the increased…
Those visionaries at Xero are at it again – they’ve got an event coming up in a few weeks to discuss business in this new participatory era. Kudos to them for getting this dialogue going – I’d love to…
Following on from my post yesterday questioning the value of the big analysis houses, it was interesting to read this on ZDNet. Even more interesting was a comment a reader had made; What would be a 2.0 replacement of…