Tag Archives: Facebook

May 9, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Facebook and the OCP Signal a Big Problem for Traditional Networking Vendors

By Ben Kepes

One of the more interesting keynotes at Interop cam from Frank Frankovsky, the guy who is not only in charge of Facebook‘s infrastructure, but also heads up the Open Compute Project, an initiative that was originally started by Facebook but now has real cross-party steam behind it. The Open Compute

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April 26, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

TiimFocus Takes Aim at Asana

By Ben Kepes

One would be forgiven for thinking that the last thing the world need is yet another task scheduling web application. Between Asana, Do.com and the plethora of other solutions, it’s a particularly busy area. But one company, Australian based startup TiimFocus (yes, it’s a terrible name), believes it has its

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February 28, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

By Ben Kepes

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of the princely $10M funding round the company had just raised. As

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February 14, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Book Review–Bank 3.0

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about, talking with and sometimes consulting to organizations in what I think of as traditional sectors about how the rise of a new way of doing business, of communicating and of personalization affects them. From telecommunications carriers to airlines, from retail to banking

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January 24, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Airline Customer Service 2.0

By Ben Kepes

I’m writing this email 30000 feet or so above the Pacific Ocean upon an Air New Zealand flight to San Francisco. I’m also somewhat agitated because I inadvertently left my wallet (and all of my credit cards and other essentials) at home in my office. As I fly along in

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January 3, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Easing Password Hell – Key To Living Online Life Safely

By Ben Kepes

As we all use more and more different services and applications in our personal and work lives, password management becomes ever more of an issue. It’s staggering the number of times I’ve had to gently make people aware of the fact that using one simple password for every single service

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November 12, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Harvest Launches Time Tracking Platform-The Rise of the Real Time Business Application Approach

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time the other day talking with Tom Mornini, founder of Boocx (more on them to come). Suffice it to say Boocx is focused on becoming the accounting platform for web developers – but platform in the true sense of the word – some core pieces of infrastructure

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October 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

A 101 Guide to Getting Noticed-Talibro Does it Wrong

By Ben Kepes

I love talking to startups and am always keen to have a chat to people doing new stuff. Often these approaches come via Twitter – that’s all good, Twitter is, after all, good for that sort of thing. But sometimes companies get it so, so wrong. Case in point Talibro,

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September 17, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

The Most Interesting DreamForce Rumor–Salesforce Acquires Box

By Ben Kepes

Imagine if Marc Benioff’s “leak” of the launch of their content collaboration tool ChatterBox at TechCrunch Disrupt last week was in fact a smoke screen and this week will see an announcement of an acquisition by salesforce of cloud content collaboration vendor Box. It’s actually not entirely out of the

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September 12, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zendesk Scores New Funding Round and Updated Interface

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been writing about helpdesk provider Zendesk now for going on five years. Their original employee, and now APAC head, Michael Hansen, likes to tell the story about their first blog coverage (a piece I wrote for ReadWriteWeb) corresponding with the beginning of their hockey-stick growth. I don’t know about

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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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