Fat and Bloated is no way to go through life
Google officially announces Chrome OS’s arrival date as this fall, HP purchases Palm and promptly kills off an Ipad like device with Windows as an operating system, and Apple announces that 2 million IPads have sold in 60 days with rumors that the Ipad is killing Netbooks. Fat and Bloated operating systems (regardless of the [...]
Micro-chunking Software: Tibco and Zoho CEOs Sing the Same Song (Just from Different Notes)
This should probably be a Tweet, but I am not smart enough to squeeze it into 140 characters – perhaps Tumblr or Posterous notes? Anyway, I am in a rambling mood – but I’ll keep it short, just pointing to stuff I read. After all, there’s a reason why my personal blog has the tagline [...]
Facebook needs a better way to unfriend people
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been trying to gain some kind of control over my Facebook account, meaning I have two distinct pages, one for family only, and one that is more public that I don’t really worry about. The problem was moving people between both pages, and the inability to mass [...]
Multitenancy and the Enterprise Service Management Space
I’ve written previously about Service-now, an enterprise level service management tool. The other day I had an email from Doron Gordon, CEO of SAManage, an Israeli on-demand IT Asset & Service management service. Gordon was keen to get me to take a look at SAManage and in his introductory email told me that they: compete [...]
Why Air New Zealand is not only the best Airline in the World, but how they Implicitly Understand Social Media too… (and a shout out for Southwest Airlines as well)
I talk a lot about Air New Zealand. After flying around 200000 kilometers with them last year, and being well on my way to doing more than that this year, I speak from experience. So.. here’s a couple of examples why. Take a flight within New Zealand on AirNZ and you’re not greeted by a [...]
Cloud Sherpas – Raising Money and Enhancing GAPE Admin
I’ve written before about Cloud Sherpas, a cloud computing systems integrator and application developer. They’re a Google Apps reseller that also created SherpaTools for Google Apps, a free app that gives more administrator functionality to Google Apps users. Only a few days ago, Cloud Sherpas raised $1 million in funding from Hallett Capital and other [...]
It’s All About Support – Granular Is Good
The other day I had one of those nightmare situations that only those who are similarly detail-focused (some would say retentive) as myself can appreciate. Now I’m a stickler for detail – it really offends my sensibilities when things aren’t stacked in order, when things don’t match and, most of all, when the numbers in [...]
Courier & Foldable Tablets are Neither Innovative Nor “Different”
This is a sad “I’ve told you” moment, as I predicted the death of dual-screen tablets, be it the one by MSI or Microsoft’s Courier, which has just been canceled. Says Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s VP of corporate communications: At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, [...]
T Shirt Friday #41 – Pervasive
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
On Design at Apple
Whether you love or hate the way they do business, there are not many people who would argue that Apple creates product of deep thought and beauty. In this video, Apple chief designer Jonathan Ive, he who is credited with ideating every Apple device since the first iMac, talks about purposeful design in particular in [...]
ClearBooks Ups the Ante
Interesting to read that ClearBooks , the UK based privately held online accounting application, has just secured a new financing deal for an undisclosed sum. Their press release announcing the deal is a marketing message – calling out Sage and Intuit, and specifically pitching itself as a “more UK focused service than online international competitors [...]
Differentiating in a Commoditized World: On Syncplicity and Expanz
At the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Allister Croll gave an excellent presentation, actually as an aside, Croll ran close to half of the Cloud Connect sessions and really did a sterling job of managing the conference. Anyway – in his session Croll was talking about the opportunities for investment in the cloud and [...]
Appirio Guest Post
Over on the Appirio blog they’re running a series getting cloud perspectives from a bunch of different industry players. Appirio approached me with a bunch of questions to answer, I thought I’d repost those questions (and my answers) here. It was a general overview of current cloud trends and barriers/problems. All good stuff and I [...]
Who Said Accountants Were Backwards?
Interesting to see this video that Findlay & Co, a New Zealand chartered accountancy firm, came up with: It’s all part of a campaign to promote their new “iCrunch” website , essentially an online tool to get a quotation for compliance work with the ability to pay in advance. Their quote engine consists of a [...]
SaaS Sales – Don’t Discount Traditional Channels
We’ve heard for years that SaaS applications will disintermediate traditional marketing channels with it’s direct to consumer and viral uptake – many were envisaging a future without traditional media usage. The truth however seems to be somewhat different – the number of SaaS vendors I’ve spoken to recently who are embarking on “traditional” approaches is [...]
