January 2006

15 Minute RoundUp Update

January 27, 2006 General

The team’s assembled, the site is registered, the podcast host is onboard. The main site host has been established (at the time of writing I’m still awaiting confirmation of the server changes) and we’re now working on design. I’ve produced a 2 minute teaser – which introduces the show and the team. (right click to [...]

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The power of this medium

January 26, 2006 General

Poor old Google is in hot water over its decision to cave in to China’s demands for restrictions on what it will allow appearing on Google China sites. The story spread like wildfire around the internet to the point where it made the English language news at Bay Radio, here in Javea, Spain. I heard [...]

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Intelligent Reporting – Sage style

January 26, 2006 General

Earlier today, Paul Martin, exec chairman of Sage’s BI division led me through a demonstration of Sage’s new Intelligent Reporting (IR) application, due for release in March. This is the development outcome of Sage’s 2004 acquisition of a ‘grown up’ BI toolset that has been productised for the Line 50 community. This was very much [...]

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Deloitte & Touche discuss the 'aging consumer'

January 25, 2006 General

Deloitte & Touche has a podcast entitled ‘The Aging Consumer.’ I’ve already subscribed to the podcast feed. The feed link is in the Interesting Places section of the right hand sidebar of this site. This is an excellent example of how I believe this medium works. The show provides great insights into the way D&T [...]

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Site update…links listing

January 25, 2006 General

A few folk have complained I don’t have a list of places to which I link. I’ve corrected that and the list of my favourites is now listed on the right hand side. It’s not everything I read but the ones which I’m most likely to visit on a day to day basis. It’s been [...]

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Top editors agree to 15-Minute RoundUp – launch imminent

January 25, 2006 General

Just before Christmas I talked about setting up a 15 minute podcast show. It’s now coming together. Here’s the deal. Damian Wild – group editor AccountancyAge/Financial Director Richard Young – editor Real Finance and John Stokdyk – tech editor AccountingWEB have each agreed to participate in the show. Each week they’ll contribute around 5 minutes [...]

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In London next week

January 24, 2006 General

Anyone around in central London, Wednesday 1st February? If so, then I’ll be in the Greek Street area looking for decent beer from about 5.30pm. I guess that after the rigours of ‘tax filing week’ a fair few will be shattered but…

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Salesforce.com and the living dead

January 24, 2006 Cloud Computing/SaaS

David Terrar turned up at a salesforce.com shindig in London today. His report is here. David tells me they were playing to a full house of 300+. Salesforce.com is the current global SaaS cheerleader so as you might expect, its CEO Marc Benioff spent time deriding incumbent players (the living dead in some people’s eyes) [...]

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The end of taxation as we know it?

January 24, 2006 General

The DaVinci Institute’s Thomas Frey predicts that in the next 10 years, the US system of taxation and in particular the direct tax regime will collapse. That’s one heck of a claim but I can see how Thomas came to his conclusions. I believe the argument is flawed for a number of reasons, not least [...]

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Wealth warning – FLUD for SMBs

January 24, 2006 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I thought the SMB market was relatively FUD free. For those that don’t know, FUD means Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. In the software industry it’s a term to describe the way vendors confuse customers with a combination of half-truths and techno-babble to bewitch customers into believing their solution is the best and that others are [...]

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