Zendesk Scores New Funding Round and Updated Interface
I’ve been writing about helpdesk provider Zendesk now for going on five years. Their original employee, and now APAC head, Michael Hansen, likes to tell the story about their first blog coverage (a...
View ArticleThe Most Interesting DreamForce Rumor–Salesforce Acquires Box
Imagine if Marc Benioff’s “leak” of the launch of their content collaboration tool ChatterBox at TechCrunch Disrupt last week was in fact a smoke screen and this week will see an announcement of an...
View ArticleA 101 Guide to Getting Noticed-Talibro Does it Wrong
I love talking to startups and am always keen to have a chat to people doing new stuff. Often these approaches come via Twitter – that’s all good, Twitter is, after all, good for that sort of thing....
View ArticleHarvest Launches Time Tracking Platform-The Rise of the Real Time Business...
I spent some time the other day talking with Tom Mornini, founder of Boocx (more on them to come). Suffice it to say Boocx is focused on becoming the accounting platform for web developers – but...
View ArticleEasing Password Hell – Key To Living Online Life Safely
As we all use more and more different services and applications in our personal and work lives, password management becomes ever more of an issue. It’s staggering the number of times I’ve had to gently...
View ArticleAirline Customer Service 2.0
I’m writing this email 30000 feet or so above the Pacific Ocean upon an Air New Zealand flight to San Francisco. I’m also somewhat agitated because I inadvertently left my wallet (and all of my credit...
View ArticleBook Review–Bank 3.0
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about, talking with and sometimes consulting to organizations in what I think of as traditional sectors about how the rise of a new way of doing business, of...
View ArticleContinuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS
When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was...
View ArticleTiimFocus Takes Aim at Asana
One would be forgiven for thinking that the last thing the world need is yet another task scheduling web application. Between Asana, Do.com and the plethora of other solutions, it’s a particularly busy...
View ArticleFacebook and the OCP Signal a Big Problem for Traditional Networking Vendors
One of the more interesting keynotes at Interop cam from Frank Frankovsky, the guy who is not only in charge of Facebook‘s infrastructure, but also heads up the Open Compute Project, an initiative that...
View ArticleHTML5 versus Native Apps (Again)
Excuse me for wading into a religious battle but I’ve often been puzzled by the zealotry displayed by those who are adamant that only native applications are worth looking at. Admittedly it’s a...
View ArticleAppery.io and More Mobile Development Democratization
Let’s get one thing straight – delivering applications to mobile users is a non-negotiable requirement for enterprise IT. It’s for this reason that every man and his dog is now creating a mobile back...
View ArticleBox Announces Notes – Moves Into the Content Creation Business
I’ve been covering Box for many years now but one thing I’ve always wondered about is their focus on being a content storage and collaboration vendor without enabling the creation of that content....
View ArticleTop x of x Lists and a Missed Social Marketing Opportunity
Awhile ago the Huffington post, in its infinite wisdom, decided to publish a list of the “Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter“. Now before I go any further, I have to say that, despite stroking...
View ArticleDid Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?
Anonymous application Secret is an awesome tool. It allows people who would never be able to put their name to a statement to tell others something they know. It enables whistle blowers to tell the...
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