About Cloud. And SaaS. And How “Big Apps” Will Always Stay Local
I’ve been doing this whole SaaS thing for a few years now, and fondly remember at the start when people said that only the most svelte of applications (or, more correctly, the applications with the most svelte of payloads) would ever move to the cloud. The people who used to say his would point to [...]
VisualBee –Trying to Automate Creativity
Like many people in the technology industry, I’m regularly tasked with creating and delivering presentations – it’s something I really enjoy – spreading the message of cloud to the world. One of the things I don’t especially enjoy however is the design process around presentations – luckily I have a
Cloud Computing Security One Year in the Cloud
Over the last year I have been working on a project for where I work to see just what the threat level was for systems in the “cloud”.
Successful presentations? – go back to basics
Some of us of a certain age come from a time when presentations weren’t created directly on the PC (or Mac) with PowerPoint (or Keynote), or with cool new online tools like Prezi. Back then before laptop PCs and low cost flash drives, if there was plenty of money in the marketing budget, and the [...]
Prezi Dazzles: Live Recording of a Social Media Class
I’ve said before: if you wanto to dazzle with your presentation, use Prezi. The Prezi team did to presentations what Google did to email: throw away all pre-existing notions, re-think why and how we use email (presentations) and build something from scratch. That’s how you get results that truly dazzle. Of course that brings up [...]
Presentations: a Counterpoint. Think Creation, Not Just Delivery
We’ve often stated there is no such thing as the “CloudAve View”, only the views of individual authors, and we encourage debate even within our own team. The one thing we all agree in is that debate is good. In that spirit I offer some counterpoints to Ben’s post: Presentations… And Re-Inventing the Wheel Please [...]
