In this swirling world of the digerati, we tend to encourage others to “drink of the kool aid” in the way that we are. What I mean is that we push our more mainstream brethren to partake in all the things we are – twitter, plurk, identi.ca, blogging, social media
A guest post from unreasonablemen.net I recently had an interesting debate with someone about ‘customer ownership’ and how this plays out in a SaaS world. It’s perplexing because my verbal sparring partner has some great points, but the root of my unease with the whole debate was based on uncertainty
I posted the other day about the concerns I have for the multitude of Web 2,0 businesses that have no real clue about how, when or from whom they’ll monetise their product. Mike commented astutely saying that (edited for brevity); …surely you know that “free” isn’t “free”…When I take SME’s
Apparently in a semi off-the-record interview with the New York Times, Apple CEO Steve Jobs disclosed that while he has some health concerns, they are not life threatening. Then, as if to prove he’s pretty much on usual form, he’s quoted as saying; This is Steve Jobs, you think I’m
David Risley posts about his feelings upon discovering that some of his readers are using ad blockers. David’s blog, PCMech, is a professional deal that costs significant amount of money to run, ads are the way he does this. David contends that by blocking those ads the user is in
I’ve posted often abut the difficulties traditional ISV’s face when moving to an on-demand delivery. The recent announcement by Microsoft of it’s latest tranche of software+services offerings has further caused fear and consternation among a number of traditional vendors. It was interesting then to real Phil’s post about Synergation, a
So new search upstart Cuil launched this week – with a search index currently at 120 billion pages (and growing). They’ve got high-profile founders (a bunch of ex Googlers) and a heap of VC cash ($33 million). So – only two questions Quality of offering Chance of success How good
I posted a little while ago about different pricing strategies for SaaS businesses. Briefly my view was that principally SaaS vendors should keep their SaaS pricing simple. After that Sinclair wrote an excellent post over on his blog that elicited some really useful comments. one of the comments came from
It’s fun being on the sidelines watching this one! Steve Clayton from Microsoft was pretty chuffed to be able to blog about Apple’s MobileMe debacle. One could almost hear the glee in his words reporting that, for once something El Jobso touched didn’t turn to gold. He also got to
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