Good video from CeBIT on startups from Stilgherrian featuring Jason Calacanis of Mahalo. Will have to re-write the Saasu API to support this ecommerce site. Hat tip to zfweb. Saasu won CeBIT again for the 2nd year in a row. This is my 10th gratuitous self back patting. Ah well, we deserve it. If you’re [...]
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) announced their 2010 expected delivery machine. With a price tag of $75 there will soon be no reason for the 1st world not to be able to get PC’s in the hands of every 3rd world child. Photo thanks to OLPC on Flickr.com
One of our Saasu customers optimises Web 2.0 in it’s original meaning. He uses 88miles.net for tracking time on projects against customers and uses Saasu.com for his accounting ledger, tax and so on. 88miles and Saasu’s API’s have a little chat during the day keeping all his stuff in line, like a couple of fax [...]
Well at 4:30pm today Aust EST it was official. Vodafone wins the iPhone deal. Do I have to accidentally drop my Blackberry? Do I divorce my Blackberry and go for the younger more nubile SaaS enabled iPhone? Might wait a while, let all the cool kids go first.
The Powerhouse Museum has posted over 400 Photo Plates on Flickr. You really have to take you hat of to them. It’s wonderful to make this so available to Australians. Hat tip to Sean Carmody. This shot is quite sentimental for me. I grew up about 100 metres around the bend on the left from [...]
If I was in Jack Dorsey and Biz Stones I would be monetising their Twitter asset fast, damn fast. Sell it, open it up, whatever it takes. I think they aren’t far away from being standardised out of their current business model unless they can quickly fix their scale problems. Driven by reliability issues on [...]
Twitter the nuclear option Stilgherrian points to a great read. I particularly loved this quote describing the potency of Twitter….”This newest of new things has only just started to rise up and flex its muscles. The street, ever watchful, will find new uses for it, uses that corporations, governments and institutions of every stripe will [...]
A couple of weeks back I wrote about User Designed User Interfaces. I talked about financial markets traders loving lots of info packed into the screen for screen real estate efficiency. Well I found a theme that meets my objectives but I’m not sure about my readers. However, I have a theory people are people, [...]
Microsoft says it has a strategy to take on Google without Yahoo. See the Wall Street Journal story or the CNET story for details. I don’t think this is over, it’s normal to put some flushing press out there to make the seller feel a little regretful and uncomfortable. Google is moving fast, time is [...]
When 37signals in Getting Real dished meetings it really smacked of what I call zero math opinion. I really enjoy reading their blog but on occasion I disagree with their opinion. I was reminded today when Seth Godin posted a funny cartoon on the topic of too many meetings. Meetings can be good, very good. [...]
I have started writing for The Calm Space online magazine on the topic of sustainability. My first article is The Sus in Sustainable. I get asked to write for tech, saas blogs but time restricts me. The environment however is a topic which can’t wait as it will impact us all much sooner than we [...]