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QuickBooks for iPad–Well Executed, But it’s all About the Ecosystem

May 24, 2013

Business

Customer, GoPayment, intuit, IOS, QuickBook, Small Business Web, techcrunch, twitter

Recently Intuit introduced a new mobile version of its QuickBooks application. In the past when a legacy vendor introduced a mobile application, they tended to do so by stripping out much of the functionality of the full version and…

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Diversity Analysis Becomes Diversity Limited–What’s In a Name?

September 4, 2012

Business

Business, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, Krishnan Subramanian, Organization, Rishidot Research, techcrunch, Technology

For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how best to describe what I “do”. I run Diversity, a pretty diverse (hence the name) operation which covers a bunch of different things – I spend time evangelizing about Cloud Computing,…

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In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

September 4, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, cloudcomputing, Information technology management, TCO, techcrunch, Total Cost of Ownership

In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a guest post from Jinesh Varia from…

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TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

August 13, 2012

Business

Blog, Databases, Florian Müller, google, Java, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, techcrunch

So Alex Williams (a great guy, good friend and awesome cloud pundit) wrote a post a week or two ago entitled “Why The Open Cloud Wins And Oracle Loses When IT Gets Virtualized.” (subtle huh?) Oracle wasn’t overly happy…

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OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

August 7, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, hewlett packard, Krishnan Subramanian, Morphlabs, OpenStack, OSCON, rackspace, techcrunch

The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product…

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Cloud – It’s About Flexibility

August 3, 2012

Business

cloud computing, gmail, OSCON, Quality policy, techcrunch

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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On Journalistic Process, Conflicts of Interest, Embargoes and… Arrington

September 6, 2011

Business

aol, Arianna Huffington, Conflict of interest, Huffington Post, MG Siegler, new york times, techcrunch, Venture capital

Over the weekend a veritable firestorm erupted when it was announced that Michael Arrington, founder and editor ofTechCrunch was forming a venture fund, backed by none other than the owners of TechCrunch, AOL. The firestorm centered mainly on the…

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On start-ups and paying CEOs

September 24, 2008

Business, Efficiency, IT, New business, Strategy

peter thiel, techcrunch

At the TechCrunch 50 conference Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley uber investor was quoted as saying that there is a ceiling in terms of CEO salary for a startup, beyond which you begin to “have issues”. For a more general…

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I’m all for disruption but….

September 21, 2008

Design, Efficiency, IT, Strategy

Facebook, Microsoft, outlook, techcrunch, xobni

TechCrunch waxes poetical on the threat to Microsoft, and in particular the exalted position of Outlook, that Facebook poses. TechCrunch says that; Facebook succeeds because it is the killer web application for communications and personal information management. Facebook Mail…

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Ouch – be nice guys!

September 15, 2008

Business, Design, IT, Society

demo, techcrunch

I posted a few weeks ago about the battle of words between the organisers of the TechCrunch50 and Demo conference organisers. You’ll recall that there was much bitching between the respective organisers over who stole whose ideas, whose thunder…

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