Business Two Zero

John Stokdyk refers to the great SaaS debate that we had earlier in the year within the pages of AccountingWEB in his IT Zone roundup of 2006.  He refers to Dennis Howlett and myself as evangelists for the topic, and their own David Carter, who thinks SaaS is all “just hot air”.  John thinks that: […]

David Tebbutt tagged me about 10 days ago, and I’ve been avoiding responding… up to now.  This one falls in with the 5 things meme, and is a bit like a virtual cocktail party.  You have to admit to 5 things people might not know about you, and tag 5 others.  So here goes: 1. I’m […]

About 4 weeks ago I wrote up a few preliminary thoughts on Blogtronix, following a long, late night (for me!) session with George Athannassov and John West, but I’ve finally had time to do a fuller write up. One of the frustrations of the current web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 world is that there are great […]

Earlier in the year I was seriously considering attending Loic LeMeur’s Le Web 3 conference at the start of this week.  I’m disappointed I missed David Weinberger’s presentation, but I’m glad I missed out the rest.  There seems to be a lot of resentment over the way the conference was handled, and hijacked by French […]

If you’ve got kids in their early teens, particularly if they are girls, it’s just possible you might have heard of Gaia Online.  Amongst other things, it is the largest, English speaking, online forum in the World, with more than 5 million registered users, and more than 850,000 posts so far.  Actually it is a […]

There are particular design ingredients that we tend to recommend when we are building a new site with our clients.  Since the world of the web is changing all of the time, it’s good  to have what’s good and bad corroborated by some solid research, or another design consultancy’s ideas.  Research carried out by the […]

Guy Kawasaki has a great post you should read if you are interested in the current dynamics of marketing on the web - Ten Questions With Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell (although it’s extra value, because there are actually 12 questions for the price of 10).  Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell are promoting their latest […]

When Thomas was suggesting the SaaS term was all hype and marketing spin and just bureau solutions revisited, I responded with the 5 questions I ask to differentiate SaaS vendors from SoSaaS, ASP or hosted solutions.  Where the vendor’s solution is more like traditional software, but hosted, they often focus on the on-demand term, rather […]

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a big topic, and fascinating because it is both an art and a science.  One of the best ways you can learn about it is to avoid the charlatan SEO websites and consultants who promise you number 1 ranking by some form of magic, and find out more about  it yourself.  […]