Category Archives: Blogging

June 24, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Society, Strategy 4 Comments

Ruby a pretty good first foray

By Ben Kepes

(and I’m not talking about Ruby on Rails) I’m currently in the throes of doing some work around creating a business community (more to come on that one) and in my research I came across The Ruby Connection, the network set up by Westpac Bank in order to create a

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June 12, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Business, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Gears for Docs and Reader and Windows Live Writer – nice!

By Ben Kepes

Firefox 3 RC2 has at last got access to Google gears so I’ve taken the opportunity to do some offline web app work. As I type I’m reading some posts on Google reader, editing some Google docs and writing this blog post – all offline. I’m safe in the knowledge

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June 10, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Strategy Leave a comment

CEOs fronting up…

By Ben Kepes

Its disappointingly rare in New Zealand to have CEOs front up and talk to industry commentators (or consumers even). Smaller software company CEOs tend to be prepared to do it (this blog has hosted conversations with the CEOs of iPayroll, Xero, Groupswim, ProWorkflow among other) but it’s rare for bigger

May 22, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

DiversityTV – Rod Drury interview part one

By Ben Kepes

At the small business expo in Christchurch, Ben took the opportunity to interview a number of businesses. In the first interview to be posted, we talk to Rod Drury, co-founder and CEO of Xero about some of the decisions Xero made about their initial market entrance strategies and some lessons

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May 17, 2008 Posted in Blogging, IT 2 Comments

Installing WordPress on a local machine…

By Ben Kepes

Reading yesterday of Mauricio’s problems with the Geekzone outage, I decided to review my backup procedures. I’ve always run an automated backup off this blog on a weekly basis, but in all honestly never knew for sure if I could actually restore from the backup. So this morning I decided

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April 25, 2008 Posted in Blogging 1 Comment

Welcome to seesmic….

By Ben Kepes

I’ve not as yet joined the realm of the podcasters out there, however an invite code to seesmic made me think about starting a foray in vidcasting. Firstly I’d be keen to hear readers opinions on whether vidcasting is a positive step for a blog such as this one; [poll=6]

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April 8, 2008 Posted in Blogging, IT, Society, Strategy 2 Comments

Blogging… a health warning..

By Ben Kepes

At 530am this morning when I got up to check my RSS feeds, I was faced by this article in the New York Times, decrying the dangers of blogging and using the example of the health impacts recently seen by prominent bloggers. The NYT likened blogging to third world sweat

March 17, 2008 Posted in Blogging, New Zealand Leave a comment

NetGuide web awards

By Ben Kepes

It’s that time of year again – voting for the NetGuide web awards has opened. If you have a favourite ISP, e-commerce site or even Blog click here to vote.

March 3, 2008 Posted in Blogging, IT, New Zealand Leave a comment

Innovative marketing… from New Zealand?

By Ben Kepes

Interesting to hear this morning of the Geekzone Visual Studio 2008 blog. Geekzone has partnered with Microsoft to bring an advertising funded, but still useful, limited time blog centered around, not surprisingly, Microsoft’s Visual Studio product. It seems to be a win/win solution. Geekzone gets some revenue, MS gets some

February 7, 2008 Posted in Blogging, IT, SaaS 1 Comment

New Author

By Ben Kepes

For awhile now I’ve been thinking of creating more of a platform for analysis and commentary about SaaS. Diversity has two specific arms – consultancy and commentary – both of these arms are bigger than any one person and so building a community of contributors seemed a logical progression to

The Author

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.

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