Tag Archives: office 2.0

September 12, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 1 Comment

Playing the contrarian

By Ben Kepes

I was a little surprised when I saw this post by Rodrigo over on the Zoho blog. The title struck me as a little strange coming from someone who works for a business that is pushing the SaaS boundaries – what was he up to saying that Software + Services

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September 11, 2008 Posted in Blogging, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 8 Comments

A new day, a new gig

By Ben Kepes

It’s a little bit later than expected but at last I’m happy to announce the creation of CloudAve. Along with a great team of writers and researchers, Zoli Erdos as editor in chief and myself as editor will be creating what we hope will become the pre-eminent location for cloud computing

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Design, The Cloud, Web x.0 4 Comments

And it’s over…

By Ben Kepes

Sitting in the last session of the conference – Ismael is going over the tools used to run the entire operation – 500 physical attendees and a couple of thousand virtual ones. All planned and arranged in a couple of months – it’s been a whirlwind. Overall it’s been great

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August 29, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

On to it with Intuit

By Ben Kepes

As mentioned before I’ll be moderating the Money 2.0 panel at the upcoming Office 2.0 conference. I’ve just been told that joining the other panelists will be Justin Kitch, the head of SMB SaaS for Intuit. Kitch is formerly CEO of Homestead which was recently acquired by Intuit. The entire

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August 25, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

The value of community, and an opportunity for start-ups

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been talking about the upcoming Office 2.0 conference a fair bit lately – mostly because it very much seems to be a blueprint for how to organise an effective, collaborative and nimble conference. A couple of advisements from the organisers caught my eye. The first was a very open

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August 24, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Crowdsourcing a name and discussion topics

By Ben Kepes

For those with an interest in online accounting and personal finance – please feel free to head over here and contribute to both the naming and the content of the panel I’m moderating at the Office 2.0 conference in a couple of weeks. Cheers.

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August 8, 2008 Posted in Blogging, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Office 2.0 coming soon!

By Ben Kepes

The third annual Office 2.0 conference will be hitting San Francisco by storm at the start of September. Going by reports about previous conferences it’s one not to miss (especially since registrants get a cool ultra portable as part of their conference fee). The presenter list is yet to be

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August 7, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Now that’s a nice shaped curve

By Ben Kepes

Raju from Zoho flicked me an email which was embargoed until right now (assuming I’ve got my time zones right – otherwise this is either a scoop or old news ) to tell me that they’ve just gone over the one million user number. That’s a million users in less

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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.