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Did Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?

March 4, 2014

Business

box, dropbox, Facebook, Initial public offering, ipo, Silicon Valley, twitter, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Anonymous application Secret is an awesome tool. It allows people who would never be able to put their name to a statement to tell others something they know. It enables whistle blowers to tell the world of injustices that…

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Top x of x Lists and a Missed Social Marketing Opportunity

October 7, 2013

Business

Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Commemorative plaque, Facebook, Huffington Post, Klout, Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts, twitter

Awhile ago the Huffington post, in its infinite wisdom, decided to publish a list of the “Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter“. Now before I go any further, I have to say that, despite stroking the ego, these…

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Box Announces Notes – Moves Into the Content Creation Business

September 16, 2013

Business

Bret Taylor, Business, Chris Yeh, Facebook, google, Google Doc, google docs, Quip, Sam Schillace, user interface

I’ve been covering Box for many years now but one thing I’ve always wondered about is their focus on being a content storage and collaboration vendor without enabling the creation of that content. Today we start to see a…

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Appery.io and More Mobile Development Democratization

September 4, 2013

Business

Android, Appery.io, Application programming interface, Facebook, IOS, JavaScript, Salesforce.com, Visual Basic

Let’s get one thing straight – delivering applications to mobile users is a non-negotiable requirement for enterprise IT. It’s for this reason that every man and his dog is now creating a mobile back end to enable this change.…

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HTML5 versus Native Apps (Again)

August 7, 2013

Business

Android, Apple, Facebook, HTML5, IOS, Opera Mini, RedMonk, Windows

Excuse me for wading into a religious battle but I’ve often been puzzled by the zealotry displayed by those who are adamant that only native applications are worth looking at. Admittedly it’s a zealotry that is more often displayed…

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Facebook and the OCP Signal a Big Problem for Traditional Networking Vendors

May 9, 2013

Business

Facebook, google, Open Compute Project, OpenFlow, OpenStack, Operating system, Rivers, VMware

One of the more interesting keynotes at Interop cam from Frank Frankovsky, the guy who is not only in charge of Facebook‘s infrastructure, but also heads up the Open Compute Project, an initiative that was originally started by Facebook…

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TiimFocus Takes Aim at Asana

April 26, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Asana, Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook, Justin Rosenstein, Windows, Withnell, Workflow

One would be forgiven for thinking that the last thing the world need is yet another task scheduling web application. Between Asana, Do.com and the plethora of other solutions, it’s a particularly busy area. But one company, Australian based…

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Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

February 28, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Big data, cloudcomputing, Continuuity, DevOps, Facebook, platform services, Todd Papaioannou

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of…

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Book Review–Bank 3.0

February 14, 2013

Business

Bank, Bank 2.0, Bank 3.0, Brett King, Business, Facebook, Financial services, iphone

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about, talking with and sometimes consulting to organizations in what I think of as traditional sectors about how the rise of a new way of doing business, of communicating and of personalization…

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Airline Customer Service 2.0

January 24, 2013

Business

Air New Zealand, Emirates, Facebook, New Zealand, Oceania, Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, Windows 8

I’m writing this email 30000 feet or so above the Pacific Ocean upon an Air New Zealand flight to San Francisco. I’m also somewhat agitated because I inadvertently left my wallet (and all of my credit cards and other…

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