March 2006

More nonsense about SaaS

March 31, 2006 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Phil Wainewright over at ZDNet is left ‘speechless’ at an ‘all-you-can-eat’ SaaS offering from Extrasys…. In Martin Veitch’s original posting over at IT Week, “It doesn’t matter how legacy your application is, it can still be brought into the hosted environment,” said Jaydeep Korde, Extrasys business unit director.

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Phillip Woodgate's brain exploded

March 31, 2006 Innovation

Goodman Jones uber blogger Phillip Woodgate wants me to shut up: Dennis, if you are having a break from AccMan Pro and reading this then give me a break and stop coming up with great ideas. Even my other non-techie partners now want a Wiki and they want it the same time as the new website and online accounting.

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6 month update

March 31, 2006 General

I’ve met my first objective of getting 10,000+ recorded page views in a month. These figures don’t include those who subscribe via RSS or through Feedblitz because I publish the full post for consumption by those tools.

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Another Excel 2007 update

March 31, 2006 Innovation

During the conversation, Microsoftie Mike Arcuri demonstrates some interesting presentation elements that look suspiciously like the sort of traffic light systems decision makers like on their desktops…. I have no insight into how this will be delivered in the final product but it would be really cool if Microsoft could abstract the presentation element and make it available as a widget to go into a portal for users.

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Stuart Jones – top of the blogs at Barclays Bank

March 31, 2006 Innovation

Following the post about influencing investors, (and thanks for correcting me on this Seth) Stuart Jones tries it out and 35 minutes later? He’s top of the blogs at Google Finance at the Barclays Bank query Influence?

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Scoble, Amazon and my ROi

March 31, 2006 Innovation

(Help me out Hugh – can’t find the comments where you and I traded quips in maybe October/November) I was constantly asking ROI, ROI, ROI and completely missing the point…. I’ve devoted 10-12 hours of most waking days for the last 6 months, immersed in this activity It’s transformed (a bigger version of changed) my ‘business’ from being stuck in a declining MSM world to one where I get to make money from readers of all kinds.

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Lawyers on video at Microsoft

March 31, 2006 Innovation

Reading comments to Shel Israel’s discussion about corporate blogging, Scoble points to one of his Channel 9 videos with Don McGowan, a technology lawyer at Microsoft…. But on this occasion at least, the recording is educational for ‘us.’ Apart from describing the kinds of work he’s involved in, don goes to great lengths to talk about the nature of being a lawyer and the need to understand a lot about how development works.

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Center for Digital Government: 10 Steps to Improve Stewardship of Public Sector IT

March 30, 2006 Marketing

The other problem with value is having the ability to actually count it…government often does not understand the specific costs of doing any specific thing nor agree on the desired results to put a numerical value to the value…. But it is at the end the authors tie it all up neatly and drop the proverbial bombshell: …consider the rise of an online civil society that has no qualms about displacing government institutions with community-based solutions that are more responsive and relevant to the way people live their lives.

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Interesting search results at MSN

March 30, 2006 Humour

Some people – nothing better to do.

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