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Chrome rounds out Google’s platform plays

September 9, 2008

Business

Adblock, Android, Browser, Chrome, google, Microsoft, Nick Carr, Platform, tim o'reilly, unreasonablemen.net

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A year or so ago I went to a Salesforce.com event in which they trotted out a Google Apps exec to support their no software message. The guy (I forget his name) was delayed…

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I won’t be using Chrome.

September 5, 2008

Business

Ben Kepes, Chrome, google, privacy, Read Write Web, unreasonablemen.net

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A couple of reasons. Firstly unlike Firefox and Safari and of course the corporate supported IE, it doesn’t seem to get past the companies proxy server. Second, and most importantly to me I’m not…

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People, you’ve only got yourselves to blame.

July 8, 2008

Business

iPhone pricing, unreasonablemen.net, Vodafone NZ

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net Vodafone NZ’s iPhone pricing has become so topical we even made some US news wires…well done but I’m sorry you only have yourselves to blame… I told a couple of you repeatedly that…

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Can Google go Enterprise?

July 2, 2008

SaaS

google, Microsoft, Om Malik, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, unreasonablemen.net

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There’s a growing opinion that the answer to that is no. Om Malik got stuck into Gmail last week. How is one supposed to run a business on such an unreliable platform? The…

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Where incumbents go wrong

May 5, 2008

Business

nzwc, SaaS, SAP, Seibel, unreasonablemen.net

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I saw this from Ovum analysing SAP’s Q1 financials. There are a couple of take outs from this that really struck me with respect to SaaS and incumbent business models. 1) The company…

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It was never about competition

April 7, 2008

Business

FTTN, llu, Stuff, The Line, unreasonablemen.net

In case you were wondering. The Labour government has zero interest in improving the broadband situation in this country. This report on the line just shows that the whole operational separation is a political exercise. The reports here were…

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A grand vision…

March 18, 2008

Business, Cleantech, Economic Development, Society, Strategy

biofuels, economies, NZ herald, nzwc, unreasonablemen.net

This isn’t my normal topic, but I can’t resist. I’ve secretly always harbored a dream that NZ might really make something of itself. Do what Germany & Japan did post WWII & Ireland have done recently & recreate their…

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Microsoft’s picture of a unified future…

March 11, 2008

Business

Future, Microsoft, SaaS, unified Communications, unreasonablemen.net

{this is a mirror post of unreasonablemen.net} And no it has nothing to do with Vista…. BUT, it does have everything to do with Microsoft Mesh and MS’s S+S strategy. Gianpaolo from the development team outlines a simple S+S…

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Scale Benefits in Action

March 3, 2008

SaaS

nzwc, SaaS profitability, Salesforce.com, Smoothspan, unreasonablemen.net

I’ve been thinking a bit more about SaaS. & scale. One of the assertions I made in my previous post was that companies that achieve scale get more profit. I wrote a piece previously on SaaS provider profitability in…

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