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Easing Password Hell – Key To Living Online Life Safely

January 3, 2013

Business

Authentication, Facebook, google, LastPass, mimecast, Online service provider, Password management, Two-factor authentication

As we all use more and more different services and applications in our personal and work lives, password management becomes ever more of an issue. It’s staggering the number of times I’ve had to gently make people aware of…

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Harvest Launches Time Tracking Platform-The Rise of the Real Time Business Application Approach

November 12, 2012

Business

accounting, Basecamp, Facebook, Harvest, HTML, Time Tracking, Timesheet, user interface

I spent some time the other day talking with Tom Mornini, founder of Boocx (more on them to come). Suffice it to say Boocx is focused on becoming the accounting platform for web developers – but platform in the…

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A 101 Guide to Getting Noticed-Talibro Does it Wrong

October 17, 2012

Business

Facebook, google, online communities, social media, social networking, talibro, Trending and Popularity, twitter, Uniform Resource Locator

I love talking to startups and am always keen to have a chat to people doing new stuff. Often these approaches come via Twitter – that’s all good, Twitter is, after all, good for that sort of thing. But…

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The Most Interesting DreamForce Rumor–Salesforce Acquires Box

September 17, 2012

Business

ChatterBox, Facebook, google, marc benioff, Michael Arrington, Okta, Salesforce.com, TechCrunch Disrupt

Imagine if Marc Benioff’s “leak” of the launch of their content collaboration tool ChatterBox at TechCrunch Disrupt last week was in fact a smoke screen and this week will see an announcement of an acquisition by salesforce of cloud…

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Zendesk Scores New Funding Round and Updated Interface

September 12, 2012

Business

Assistly, Charles River, Facebook, Mikkel Svane, readwriteweb, Redpoint Ventures, San Francisco, zendesk

I’ve been writing about helpdesk provider Zendesk now for going on five years. Their original employee, and now APAC head, Michael Hansen, likes to tell the story about their first blog coverage (a piece I wrote for ReadWriteWeb) corresponding…

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Primadesk Brings One Interface to Cloud Content

July 16, 2012

Business

dropbox, Facebook, Flickr, google, Google Drive, Picasa, Primadesk, syncplicity

Those who call ourselves early adopters have a tendency to sign up to services on a regular basis. If I think about where my own content sits – I have images in Picasa, Flickr and Facebook. Documents in Google…

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Garantia–Scaling and Protecting In-Memory NoSQL

June 21, 2012

Business

Database, Facebook, Garantia, Memcached, NoSQL, Redis

Note – this is (kind of) a repost – I was asked by Garantia’s PR company to pull an earlier post and publish this as the company gets ready to demo at Structure – that’s a highly unusual request…

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Ex Jive CMO Comes Back with Awesome Sales Tool–Crushpath

June 19, 2012

Business

Aaron Levie, Blackbox Republic, Charles River Ventures, crushpath, Customer relationship management, Facebook, Phil Fernandez, Salesforce.com, Sam Lawrence

Three or years ago I went out on a limb criticizing the new startup of ex Jive CMO Sam Lawrence – Blackbox Republic was a site that was going to reinvent online relationships for “sex positive” individuals. I was…

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Intuit Drops the Partner Platform–Retreats from a Federated Ecosystem Approach

June 14, 2012

Business

Facebook, intuit, Intuit Anywhere, Intuit Partner Platform, quickbooks, user interface, Web application

I’ve written at length about the Intuit Partner Platform – it seemed to me the best approach by a traditional accounting vendor to provide a compelling offering in an increasingly SaaS-based world. the IPP allowed third organizations to use…

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Assistly rebrands as Desk.com. Quick Analysis

January 31, 2012

Business

Assistly, desk.com, Facebook, Help desk, Rypple, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, twitter

It was only a few months that salesforce acquired Assistly (more here) but already we see the product relaunching under its new corporate overlords. Rebranded desk.com, the offering has been rebuilt from the ground up including an all new…

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