SearchCIO.com asked it’s readers their views on whether SaaS s a pssing fad, or if it’s here to stay. They also ask whether SaaS is yet another ASP and will go the same, unsuccesful, way. Some good responses, including one from our very own Paul Quickenden who said; My personal
Or women people anyway. My key word for the internet is aggregation. I believe a web presence can provide a forum where material from diverse sources can be aggregated, where people can congregate and communications can occur both between people and between resources and people. I’m working on a few
I’ve had a little bit to do with a few of the Fronde blog rats (not rats in a derogatory term – one of endearment only!) Their recently departed CEO, Jim Donovan, is a blogger of high regard (check out his blog) and a number of Fronde insiders (including the
News that Apple has revisited its distribution model in New Zealand and has pulled the exclusivity that Renaissance group has/had for Apple products. Two issues to discuss here – Lance has already posted congratulating Apple’s move saying that; …I have to say that I’m glad. Their service was really not
I’ve always said that EBay could do even more business if they ditched listing fees and derived most of their revenue from add-ons and success fees. In New Zealand, the largest online auction business, TradeMe, accounts for over a third of total web traffic here! This on the back of
I’ve just come across 24sevenoffice, a European based SaaS product for SMEs. 24sevenoffice seems to have unprecedented breadth of functionality. It includes; Accounting CRM (Contacts, Lead Mgt, SFA) Web conferencing functionality (via Webex) ERP (Supply Chain, Orders, Products, Inventory) Communication Group Calendaring HR Project Management Thus far it would seem
I’m not going to comments at length on this one but… here we go again… Humanware, until very recently held up as the quintessential New Zealand hi tech success story, is shutting up shop in New Zealand and relocating offshore. Someone remind me where the domestic benefit is derived when
A friend sent me a link to this site which headlines an animated movie looking at our collective mass consumerism model. While a diatribe against consumption is somewhat outside of the usual subject matter of this blog, and arguably somewhat opposed to things I write about (yep – that sexy
But the reality is (as is often the case) different. Seems a school cop in Florida set up a MySpace page in order to “connect” more with the kids within the school where he worked. As is the norm for social networking sites, he friended a number of people from
Wired posted about the design concepts for Firefox’s mobile browser that they’ve seen. Firefox is my browser of choice and seeing it go mobile would be another great step down the road of seeing content whenever you like – regardless of the platform it sits upon. I’m looking forward to
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