A OneLogin Update
I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months identifying some underlying themes within the cloud space, and some corresponding big opportunities which dropout of those themes. One bucket of opportunities that I’m excited about is services that straddle a number of different IT resources – this could be heterogeneous infrastructure management, application [...]
Better Cloud Announces Funding–Rolls out New Products
BetterCloud,the New York based startup who launched only a few months ago with DomainWatch, a security offering for Google Apps users, is today announcing a $2.2M funding round that will see it accelerate development of Google Apps products. As part of this announcement BetterCloud is announcing a public beta of
Google+ Hangouts On Air and SMBs
Yesterday Google unwrapped the Google+ Hangouts on Air to general public with relatively little fanfare. This is part of Google’s social strategy but the product has the potential to disrupt many startups in the space, especially the ones targeting consumers and SMBs. Google could flex their Youtube muscle to literally shove them away. Google+ hangouts [...]
3scale Revamps Products, Goes Free and Jumps on a Bandwagon
A raft of product announcements coming through today from API enablement vendor 3scale. Some cosmetic, some pricing related and some all about improving adoption. All together they make a complete end-to-end API platform that can scale alongside growing organization. So what’s new in the release? 3scale Free Plan 3scale have
How to Lose Your Work in Gmail in One Simple Step
I’ve been planning to come back from my “blogging hiatus” (code for writers’ block) with a more substantial piece. After all, my drafts folder is full of half-baked, abandoned posts. But hey, no better incentive to write then frustration! Have you ever seen this error? Yes, I’ve just finished composing email, hit SEND, and thought [...]
More on Banking 2.0–Who Ya Gonna Trust?
I’ve been writing now for a few years about Banking 2.0 – a general term that I use to describe what financial services will look like when it discovers open, social, API enablement, mobile and all the other business and technology trends that are converging today. I wrote a post recently that suggested Apple and [...]
Oh Google, why did you stop being sexy?
[Image by Exey Panteleev] Born out of a tweet from Tom Raftery, who pointed me to Google’s Terms of Services concerning their latest love child: Google Drive I waved at Google Wave, Buzz didn’t thrill me other than enabling the opt-out in Google Mail, and I jumped onto Google+ as soon as I could but [...]
Don’t Try to “Pull an Instagram.” Here’s Why …
Instagram. It’s understandably on everybody’s mind these days. Clichés abound about, “You know what would be cool? …” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along [...]
Surely the computer should do that?
Computer rendering of the Chicago Spire. This is not the current design as of July 12, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We have become accustomed to the simple yet all-powerful search box. ‘Advanced’ search options and arcane query syntaxes have largely been replaced by the learned behaviour of throwing some words at Google*, ignoring the sponsored [...]
Social Media Doesn’t Constitute Banking 2.0–Apple and Google Get That
While I was at SXSW last month I attended a panel (yes I know attending panels at SXSW is rare!)entitles Financial Services & Technology Rockstar Women. The panel promised to allow attendees to “Hear from global financial services and technology leaders, who happen to be women, how they use social media to drive innovation and [...]
Google Apps Introduces Vault–Enterprise Will Love This
One of the barriers that people put up against using Google Apps within enterprise is the apparent lack of robust functionality that the largest enterprises require. A big part of this lacking functionality lies in the e-discovery of documents, the ability to apply governance to information assets and to archive and manage those assets. Especially [...]
Facebook, Employers, and your username and password as a federated identity
This has been a very interesting week for employers and Facebook. I have been writing about this story over on Toolbox, here and here if you are interested in reading, but on this site I want to go a little deeper into the idea of asking prospective employees for a username and password to any [...]
Google Docs updates spell check lets pray they do not query Facebook users
If you have ever read Failbook over at the wonderful I Can Haz Cheezeburger site then you will see a collection of grammar disasters as well as some unique spelling ideas for common words we use every day. While the Google Docs team is very proud of enhancing their spell check to incorporate new words [...]
Office Applications, Cloud Office Applications: An Open Letter
Alright, there are a dozen office suites out there that sit in various places on one’s computer, in the cloud, can do X, Y, and Z and the list goes on. However, I don’t want to talk about any of those suites. I want to talk about the suite we all want, the suite that [...]
