Monthly Archives: June 2007

June 30, 2007 Posted in Business, Efficiency 7 Comments

Emirates are really annoying me….

By Ben Kepes

And hopefully they blog scan regularly and will pick this up. Late last year we took an extended family holiday and flew Emirates to Cairo and return. We’re Skywards members and so should have gained enough air points for a gratis trip to Australia. About a month ago I rang

June 30, 2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

Google deserve to run the world….

By Ben Kepes

I stand before you all (well sit) dumbfounded. A new feature on Google maps, allows you to input start and finish locations and get directions, travel time and distance. It also allows the route to be customised to ones whims. Trying to stump it I entered my home address in

June 29, 2007 Posted in Business, Design, Economic Development, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy Leave a comment

Magic happens when technical abilities and creativity meet…

By Ben Kepes

I had a chat yesterday with Justin Heaney from Influx. Influx is a business that marries some cool technical skills in terms of VCast techno-wizardry with significant experience in the creative aspects of videography. An example of Influx’s work can be seen in the VCast’s for C4 Coffee. Now putting

June 28, 2007 Posted in Branding, Business, Design, IT, Strategy 2 Comments

Buy in? Nope… lock in

By Ben Kepes

Rowan posted over here about how the iPhone will have an unremovable sim resulting in consumers being pretty much locked into Apple phone products. This and some of the other issues surrounding Apple’s latest product got me thinking. I remember a time a decade or so ago when Apple was

June 27, 2007 Posted in Business, IT, New business, New Zealand 1 Comment

A cool tool….

By Ben Kepes

One of the businesses on display last night was Interclue who have developed a cool little extension for Mozilla Firefox that allows one to preview links prior to opening them. It’s a useful sort of extension and well worth a try! Interclue has been showcased on Mozilla’s add on page

June 27, 2007 Posted in Blogging, Business, Economic Development, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society 5 Comments

Interconnectedness 2.0

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been thinking about things following on from Brenda’s post the other day, where she spoke about the interconnectedness of the Wellington ICT and Blogging scene (included in which was myself which I take as a compliment, albeit a little misguided, living as I do in the Mainland). Last night

June 26, 2007 Posted in Business, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

Even if they are retards we can’t admit it…..

By Ben Kepes

Lance has an interesting post over here (for those who can’t be bothered reading it – a semi-secure CRM had some dodgy comments about customers on it which entered the public domain). While obviously a PR disaster occurred and the CRM should have been secure, some bigger issues are called

June 26, 2007 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, My businesses, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

Environment matters….

By Ben Kepes

Leading on from Dan’s post recently about his experience starting up a new business, I thought I’d share a story with y’all. While the story itself is not important, it is analogous to many issues and experiences new business comes across… For awhile I’d been moaning about the lack of

June 24, 2007 Posted in Business, Compliance, Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, New business, New Zealand, Society Leave a comment

Phil O’Reilly has some answers….

By Ben Kepes

Phil’s opinion piece in the NZ Herald brings out some of the traditional answers to competitiveness building for NZ businesses given the high value of the dollar. Some of his suggestions are a little naive, however one area I agree entirely with him is where he calls for better analysis

June 23, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

Google cal to PDA syncing

By Ben Kepes

Here’s a question for some smart people out there….. I want to sync my multiple Google calenders to an I-mate Jam via the USB cable. You’d think this would be easy, or simple or something. Anyone have any good advice, ideas or thoughts on this? What PDA’s do others use

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.