Podio Brings On the Fly App Creation to Mobile
I spent some time recently talking to Ryan Nichols, former VP at Appirio and now heading up the apps division at Podio, a company that set out to allow people to build lightweight social apps for everyday tasks – the sort of long tail type applications that no software vendor is likely to think about. [...]
Appirio CloudSpokes – For The Cloud, On The Cloud, By The Cloud (Provider)
Two weeks back, the cloud based systems integrator Appirio announced a new developer community called CloudSpokes. This is an attempt by Appirio to crowdsource cloud development work on public cloud platforms. They already have a good group of developers inside USA and have an offshore partner in India. They are trying to build a community [...]
Software is Roadkill
The fastest way to become roadkill to venture capitalists is to become a software company. Software may not be inherently evil (it has created wealth for many people that is in proportion to the pain it has provided to many customers). Software and specifically on-premise enterprise software, however, is clearly…
Myopia and Entropy – IT’s Great Escape
Driving a car, riding a motorcycle, walking into glass windows, and information technology have one thing in common. It’s called target fixation, a phenomenon that happens when a person or an organization becomes so fixated on an issue or something in their sight that they veer off course and crash directly into it. But target [...]
T Shirt Friday #37 – Appirio #3
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 [...]
T Shirt Friday #36 – Appirio #2
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 [...]
Google App Engine’s Next Iteration
Image via CrunchBase Today, at the Campfire event to celebrate Google App Engine’s first birthday, Google made some significant announcements related to Google App Engine. The biggest news of them, though it has been anticipated for sometime now, is the support for Java in Google App Engine. This is definitely a significant move as many developers are clamoring for Java [...]
Services, The Very Critical Part of the On Demand Ecosystem – Appirio
Yesterday I had a great conversation with one of the founders of Appirio, a new age services organization founded in 2006. They are an 80-person company with an additional 20 people offshore through a partner. Their original investors include Salesforce.com along with a couple of angels. More recently Sequoia capital invested in them. Appirio is [...]
