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April 24, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

AWS Launches a Marketplace–Proof that Much of the Value is Further Up the Stack

By Ben Kepes

Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from that in the short term but it’s a risk for them long term. Other infrastructure vendors will surely follow suit. It’s game on!

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October 11, 2011 Posted in Content Delivery Network Leave a comment

Professional-Level Blog Hosting, On a Tight Budget

By Ben Kepes

A few months ago, finally sufficiently sick of the abysmal customer service and reliability delivered by my ISP, I decided to move the hosting of my blog to another provider. I reached out on Twitter and a buddy of mine (thanks Robot) pointed me in the direction of ZippyKid. Now ZippyKid is a great story [...]

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August 4, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Personyze Aims to Personalize Content Management

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from ReadWriteWeb Every time I look at the visitor statistics for my blog, I’m amazed at the plethora of ways that people consume the content I create. Apart from the people who merely read my posts within a third-party feed reader, I have site visitors that are viewing

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November 8, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

SocialText on Barriers to Adoption, and Why Consultants Miss the Point

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time last week talking to Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText and very much a luminary in the Enterprise 2.0 space. The reason for the call was to get an advance briefing about SocialText’s latest product release, a release that sees them further their aim to be a

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September 23, 2010 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Mindtouch Packages Technical Communications with a Social Layer

By Ben Kepes

Mindtouch, the San Diego based enterprise collaboration vendor ,is today launching it’s technical Communications Suite that is designed to combine traditional technical communications content curation with ease of publishing, community engagement and social interactions. Mindtouch has already used this suite for such diverse customers as CompleteGuides.net, ExactTarget, RightScale, and Intuit.

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August 2, 2009 Posted in Blogging, New Zealand Leave a comment

Wordcamp Wellington…

By Ben Kepes

This coming weekend sees Wellington hosting the New Zealand round of WordCamp. WordCamp is a conference that focuses on the intricacies of WordPress – one of the most popular blogging platforms on the web. In something of a coup, admittedly appreciated mainly among those breathing the rarefied air of blogging,

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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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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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