February 2008

Take a Brit, a New Yorker and two Irish dudes

February 19, 2008 General

…and dump them in Barcelona with the wrong address information. You had to be there with Loren Feldman, Pat Phelan and Paul Walsh to appreciate the moment. The story gets more air at TechCrunch UK. Bottom line: having stared at a hole in the ground for half an hour and then taken a cab to [...]

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Back to Windows LiveWriter

February 18, 2008 General

More by accident than design I’m back using Windows LiveWriter. I got here via the need to upgrade my Nokia N95 firmware the installer for which only runs on Windows. As a Mac user that meant installing Parallels and then XP. I cannot for the life of me get Vista to run in Parallels, despite [...]

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Does sustainability matter?

February 18, 2008 General

Earlier today I spoke with VersionOne, the paperless office company. I was interested in discovering what motivates their customers to buy into the relatively mature document management market. Recently VersionOne has been trying to play up the sustainability card but according to its PR, the company finds it something of an uphill struggle. Her opinion [...]

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Need to hire this person

February 18, 2008 General

I’ve stolen both the headline and the video direct from Sam Lawrence’s blog. Sam is chief marketing officer at Jive Software, a really cool company working in the collaboration space.

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What would you lose to gain?

February 18, 2008 General

In catching up with my reading, I see Ron Baker has put out another case study covering some of the issues faced by those intent on value pricing and trashing the time sheet. This time it comes from Harrex Group in New Zealand where there is a discussion of some of the learnings they are [...]

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Blue Ant or Jawbone?

February 18, 2008 General

Bluetooth headsets for mobile devices have been around for a while but the most recent innovations come in noise canceling technology. The idea is that persons on the other end of a call should be able to hear you without the distraction of excessive ambient noise. While at the Mobile World Congress, the Blue Ant [...]

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Mobile World Congress – a wrap up

February 17, 2008 Featured

Last week I spent three foot slogging days in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. It was disappointing. Part of the attraction was the appearance of Robert Redford talking about the convergence between business and entertainment through the mobile web. Except nobody cared. In typical Hollywood fashion, they positioned Redford’s appearance as a ‘rare event’ [...]

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Northern Rock nationalised

February 17, 2008 General

I hope no-one is surprised that Northern Rock is to be put into public hands – at least for the time being. There was never any real hope that either Virgin or the bank’s management would get the their hands on the bank in what would have been a fire sale. Nevertheless, the action is [...]

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 17th

February 17, 2008 Asides

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for February 17th: shitr – irresistible Going Solo – Well worth keeping an eye upon A Host for Your Site: Look at the Hard Numbers – As cloud computing becomes more ubiquitous we need to know which are the best providers. We Don’t Need No Stinkin Bloggers – About right [...]

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FreeAgent Universal delivered on time

February 14, 2008 Featured

The development team delivered FreeAgent Universal on time and it is now live along with some site redesign to reflect the changes they’ve made. Users will be the final arbiters of whether this is a solid service they trust but I’m happy the team delivered on what they said, when they said. That’s a rarity [...]

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