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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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Temboo, Connected Devices and Web Services

October 4, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Arduino, dropbox, opensource, PayPal, Temboo, twitter, Yun

Much has been written about the rise of connected devices – the number of people who are tinkering with Arduino, various sensors and wearable devices is growing rapidly. One aspect of connected devices use that has been a little…

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Thousand Eyes Launches Internet-Wide Performance Management Product

June 19, 2013

Business

AppDynamics, evernote, ExtraHop, Lew Cirne, network, NewRelic, Performance management, ServiceNow, Software as a Service, twitter, zendesk

We all now the drill. The rise of cloud application has meant that performance monitoring, formerly all about delivering metrics from one stack, has been blown apart and needs to become much more modular and distributed in nature. Companies…

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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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WorkinBox Integrates Email and CRM – Beautifully

April 16, 2013

Business

Appirio, Customer relationship management, iphone, Nichol, Podio, Salesforce.com, twitter, user interface

I’ve known Ryan Nichols, the CEO and co-founder of Tylr Mobile, for a number of years now – he has an impressive record of picking great problem areas and executing upon them in short order – I first came…

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On Being Part of an API-Based Ecosystem

April 1, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Groupon, IFTTT, John Sheehan, Netflix, Software as a Service, twitter, Zynga

Much hand wringing and gnashing of teeth has occurred in the past around the Twitter ecosystem as slowly but surely Twitter identifies opportunities for development that sometimes encroach upon the functionality delivered by their ecosystem partners. Whether it’s buying…

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Guest Post – On the Benefits of Exercise and the Perils of Obesity

February 19, 2013

Business

Burger King, Dubai Marathon, Half marathon, Health, KFC, Middle East, obesity, twitter

The internet is a wondrous thing, but sometimes it gives people with a rather strange view of the world the opportunity to push their own point of view. That’s not bad, it’s just a reflection of social networks enabling…

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Actual Cloud – The One To Chose

October 31, 2012

Business

Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Las Vegas, Mark Thiele, Om Malik, Organization, twitter

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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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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