Monthly Archives: October, 2008
Smart Company – Australia’s top web 2.0 entrepreneurs
Grant Young and I made Smart Companies list today of Australia’s top web 2.0 entrepreneurs. I’m chuffed to be there and Grant who started Saasu with me would probably agree that we look up to our peers mentioned in the article so it feels a bit weird being there.
Top Web 2.0 Teams would be the [...]
My Changing Search Behaviour
I’m finding that I am using Google less and less. Mostly now for specific search such as a device driver update. I know that writing lots of specific keywords will retrieve lots of specific results.
Targeted search – For knowledge and information I tend to hit Wikipedia, Google Blogsearch and Delicious
Consumer choice – I tend to [...]
No-one owns the customer
Often I listen to professional services business people talk from a position where they think they own and control their customer via some right assigned to them through their education, business or financial acumen.
Seriously, no-one owns the customer. I personally think it’s very disrespectful of the customer. At the end of the day the [...]
Government Guarantee is Not a Low Deposit Rate Certainty For Banks
Ironically, now that Federal Reserves are busy guaranteeing bank deposits they have created a whole new set of problems in the competition for capital.
It would be easy to jump to the conclusion that banks should borrow money at the same rate the government does if it’s now the same risk. It’s not that simple. Fussy [...]
Developer Numbers vs Device Numbers – iPhone vs Android
I noticed a bunch of devices Google is supporting for Gmail on Android. Yet again this reminds me of the big difference between the two strategic models. It will be interesting to see how having lots of licensed developers working with a single device (Apple) compares to having a smaller but arguably less constrained community [...]
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