April 2009

My Diigo Bookmarks 04/30/2009

April 30, 2009 Asides

Journalists on Twitter – Muck Rack Nice list that will no doubt grow tags: twitter Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Sage's CEO fumbles the cloud ball

April 29, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Sage’s CEO Paul Walker talked to Silicon recently. Despite a number of questions about cloud computing, Mr Walker skirted around many of the issues raised preferring instead to talk up the company’s maintenance revenue stream. From this perch, that’s not a great idea. The opening shot: …one of the great things about our model is [...]

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New SEC chief unhelpful on IFRS and XBRL

April 29, 2009 Tax and Ethics

Reading in Reuters that SEC head Mary Schapiro …made it abundantly clear that XBRL was very low down her priority list when she spoke at the Reuters Global Financial Regulation Summit on Tuesday, and she hinted that the SEC might allow for delays in compliance, though she didn’t know if that would be necessary. “I [...]

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More about pricing: open source and commodity services

April 28, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

A day rarely passes that I don’t see another pricing adjustment in the saas world. Earlier today I received an email that said: WorkXpress today launched its customer relationship management (CRM) application for free use by all customers. This powerful new CRM provides businesses an easy to use tool for a 360 degree view of [...]

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Tech and hobbies: 50 and counting

April 28, 2009 Innovation

My friend and colleague Vinnie Mirchandani has been running a series: Technology and Hobbies the last three months. The story count is 50 and rising. It’s surprising what people get up to in their spare time. Who for instance would have known that industry analyst Ray Wang is a closet DJ? Or that Charlie Bess, [...]

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Big 4 anticipate killer litigation

April 27, 2009 Tax and Ethics

Francine McKenna has been talking about it forever, I’ve thrown my two penn’orth into the ring from time to time. Now it’s official – the Big 4 are terrified that a blockbuster lawsuit could bring one or more of them down and are seeking government protection. According to The TimeOnline: “This isn’t about auditors trying [...]

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AAT's innovation

April 27, 2009 Innovation

This video from AAT speaks for itself. Well produced, slightly comedic without being silly, the message it delivers is simple yet effective. I wonder when ICAEW will wake up to this medium as a way of getting its message across? Hat tip: AccountingWeb

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New threads

April 27, 2009 Featured

Site visitors may have noticed a considerable change in AccMan’s appearance. As I said last weekend (though Krupo thought I was joking) I’ve implemented a new theme, courtesy of Mehmet at Gabfire, an Estonian design house. The bones of the theme are as Mehmet envisaged but I’ve coded a number of customizations to get what [...]

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Pearl goes to V2.0, new pricing options, MYOB safe haven

April 27, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Pearl Software [disclosure: Pearl sponsors this site] briefed me last week on the new version of the service along with details of new pricing options. I have reviewed the service before but on this occasion I was interested in diving deeper into the portal and accounting practice specific functionality along with a few other goodies. [...]

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