Innovation

How time flies

September 1, 2008 General

It’s a while since I referenced David Terrar and how time flies. This morning (my time) he’s still cranking out copy on Pacific Time (it’s 3.00 am there) as he gears up for Office 2.0, 2008. I can’t attend this time and have mixed emotions about the event. On the one hand, it was great [...]

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Xero's logical partnering

August 28, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Wow – Xero’s on a tear. The latest announcement talks about a partnership with Acclipse, a New Zealand provider of software that includes practice management: The partnership will see the seamless integration of Xero’s client accounting software with Acclipse’s web-based practice management and tax software, to provide a complete solution for accounting firms. At least [...]

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Collaboration works when community thrives

August 26, 2008 General

Right now I’m gearing up for TechEd and DemoJam. This is a technical conference where I am on a couple of panels. Who would have thought that a suit (and a bean counter by trade at that!) would qualify let alone turn up for for geek gig. I’ve been before but this is a special [...]

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US tax almanac: an exercise in crowdsourcing

August 21, 2008 General

I stumbled across the Tax Almanac the other day. It’s a free US resource that is built upon the MediaWiki platform and sponsored by Intuit. I cannot comment upon its accuracy for US tax professionals but I can say that it has plenty of active users and the home page has been viewed nearly 2.1 [...]

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Questions for accounting vendors

August 21, 2008 General

Ben Kepes contacted me asking for pointers to ask accounting panelists at the upcoming Office 2.0 gig in San Francisco. It’s an interesting selection of vendors (I’d be much happier seeing users or those implementing solutions but hey ho.) Anyhoo – here goes: Aaron Forth (Mint.com) – when do you plan to make the crossover [...]

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ICAEW site revamp scores well

August 18, 2008 General

While I have had no direct involvement in the ICAEW site revamp I draw some satisfaction in knowing the person who came up with the design. I’m saying no more to save said person’s blushes. The redesign works really well. Clean lines, logical layout, well thought out colour coordination and solid navigation. All things that [...]

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FreeAgent and SAP: the comparison?

August 16, 2008 General

Although I’m no longer involved on a day-to-day basis, it’s always nice to see a positive review of a service in which I had a wee hand. Nigel Harris has give FreeAgent a glowing report card and I was especially pleased to see that he’d got this bit right: FreeAgent looks good, is pretty straightforward [...]

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People who matter: Craig Cmehil and jet lag

August 16, 2008 General

While stuck in Madrid airport, I tuned into the Friday Morning Report (FMR) run by Craig Cmehil. The topic du jour was ‘Jet Lag” and the ensuing conversation was hilarious. It’s one of those ‘you had to be there’ times but even so, the replay should provide enough flavour to get a sense of the [...]

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Did the conversation move?

August 6, 2008 General

Stowe Boyd has a fascinating post about how he sees the changing blog landscape. It’s a fairly technical piece but essentially he is suggesting that with the advent of ‘flow’ style applications like Twitter, the ‘conversations’ we’ve been having in blogs (which are effectively locked in silos) is now under the control of those who [...]

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