Business Two Zero

 
My 12 (going on 19) year old daughter asked me this amazing question over the dinner table last night.  Putting aside the rather worrying undercurrent for any parent, it meant I launched in to an impromptu history lesson of computing.  I explained to her that most of what she understands as the Internet has really […]

For the last few months I’ve been using a neat little program called ActiveWords.  It sits between your keyboard and your operating system and allows you to trigger things to happen as you type, to save you time and helps you avoid using the mouse and diving between programs.  It can trigger key words to […]

 
We often use JotSpot as a very cost effective collaboration tool - an ideal SaaS based intranet.  However, I recently sat through a presentation by Neil Darracott of a small company called Xolve, explaining how they use Groove Networks product for project collaboration.
I’d heard of Groove, because of their recent acquisition by Microsoft, but didn’t […]

 
I still continue to be surprised at the number of people I talk to in the IT and software world who haven’t properly woken up to the new wave of Software as a Service and Open Source, and the effects they are producing.  IDC’s predictions for 2006 have them at the heart of things:

“A critical […]

 
After he sold his business to Hasbro, serial entrepreneur John Osher decided to make a list of the 16 mistakes he’d made or seen other entrepreneurs make in business.  It has since been expanded to 17 and he added 5 things you must do to succeed.  It has become a case study used in the […]

 
Here is an example of how blogging, posting, RSS feeds and social media are changing the way news media works.   I’ve just found Digg, which is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control.  With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the […]