December 2008

SageLive, part 1: the market issues

December 17, 2008 General

Following on earlier stories that Sage is readying an on-demand product, I can confirm this is the case. I had a briefing with Sage’s commerical and technical people to get a feel for the product, its go to market and positioning. What follows is necessarily abbreviated.This deals with the commercial aspects of Sage’s offering. The [...]

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Nokia's N96 suckiness doesn't end with the firmware

December 17, 2008 General

I’ve been a huge fan of Nokia hardware over the years. Not for me the snazzy iPhone or the city slicker Crackberry. But…the N96 has shattered my faith in the company. Along the way I’ve learned a few inconvenient truths about mobile handsets. Since I travel a lot around Europe and the US, I need [...]

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IFRS – hands across the sea

December 17, 2008 General

Bill Sheridan of CPA Success tells me that US CPA’s are looking forward to the introduction of IFRS. That’s interesting when I hear all the shenanigans around fair value. Even so, his recent post on the topic is interesting: Actually, a discussion via his blog post titled What I Meant in Accounting Education under IFRS [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 12/17/2008

December 17, 2008 Asides

Where was Madoff’s auditor? – Financial Week It’s taken the financial press THIS long to ask? Sheesh. “Our focus is on whether the independent auditor reports that were prepared by Friehling were fraudulent.” – no shit sherlock. tags: madoff, audit MindTouch Named in ReadWriteWeb’s Top 10 Enterprise Web Products of 2008 | MindTouch, Inc Blog [...]

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Getting help, growing networks: Twitter

December 16, 2008 Featured

I know many of my professional readers look at Twitter and go ‘Uh?’ That’s OK. I did once as well, casting it as a complete waste of time. In recent times the service has proven itself incredibly valuable. As always with technology, it’s not the tech itself but how it is used that delivers value. [...]

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Conversational fluidity: using the FriendFeed river

December 16, 2008 General

Like so many emerging trends of the last few years, perceptions around ‘conversation’ has changed. Once rooted in the idea that blogs would be the foundation upon which we converse with the world, there has been a real shift. Much earlier in the year, several of the blogerati noticed a phenomenon well articulated by Stowe [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 12/16/2008

December 16, 2008 Asides

Leading article: A tale of greed and fraud from the financial Wild West – Leading Articles, Opinion – The Independent – Annotated tags: no_tag The Enterprise System Spectator: SaaS: plan to get out before you get in Frank makes telling points about what you need to be aware of. tags: saas, salesforce.com Posted from Diigo. [...]

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Amazon: sweat shop Britain?

December 15, 2008 General

Off topic but worthy of discussion. This is definitely one for the: Going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket department. The Sunday Times sent in an undercover reporter to Amazon with a view to substantiating claims that Amazon operates a draconian employment regime. The findings are appalling. Among other things: Managers warned employees that surveillance cameras monitored their every move, and [...]

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Perception and reality: the Arrington Incident

December 15, 2008 General

This is probably completely off topic but what the heck. Reality is a strange construct. My reality is probably different to yours and depends on so many variables. A good part of it is based on my ‘world view’ but also my biases and expectations. So for example I LOVED the Gillmor Gang live at [...]

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What the heck?

December 15, 2008 General

My ZDNet colleague Jason Perlow has a post that illustrates all that is wrong with Wall Street: If Wall Street weren’t neck deep in economic doggy doo, and that several of our financial institutions hadn’t just failed and weren’t spending 700 billion dollars of taxpayer bailout funds — of which nearly 350 billion has already [...]

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