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Over on AccountinWEB’s Any Answers Annie Griffiths was asking the community about how to keep up with technology buzzwords, and she raised a specific problem:

“Over time I have built an Information bank for my firm. It is basically a load of interlinked Word & Excel documents containing useful information like company policies, standard forms structured […]

Over on AccountinWEB, Nigel Harris and John Stokdyk have been writing about Kevin Salter’s Accountant Power Tools - a subscription website providing gadgets and software advice for accountants. I understand John’s support of the idea, using Wired’s slogan “We waste our time so you don’t have to”. The service costs £6 a month, discounted to […]

Early yesterday afternoon, UK time, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Shai Agassi had resigned from SAP. Within a short space of time by e-mail, Twitter, SMS message, and the odd phone call or face to face conversation, the news and discussion was spreading. Since Shai was a strong candidate in line to […]

I haven’t received a file from someone who’s jumped up to Microsoft Office 2007 that I couldn’t read with Office 2003….. yet. Knowing the file formats are so different I have been expecting it to happen at some point. I just spotted this Office 2007 compatibility pack which says that it will do the job:

“When […]

Last week I highlighted Richard Murphy’s analysis of the 2p budget. Stuart Jones was quick to pick out the increase in tax rate, and Philip Woodgate points out the injustice of raising taxes for small business at the same time as lowering tax rates for big business. He also picks out something I’d missed, which […]

Over on his blog, my good friend Sig Rinde thinks that SaaS is a big yawn (and he even wants to abolish accounting too). To him it’s just another software delivery model. I can see where he’s coming from, but I’m afraid I don’t agree. For the SaaS provider’s who have embraced the technology, the […]

I missed this in the clutter of last week. It’s Hugh’s status report on 2 years of web 2.0 campaign with Stormhoek. It’s a kind of manifesto on today’s marketing approach. It contains some gems.

Technorati tags: Marketing, web+2.0, Stormhoek, Hugh+MacLeod, gaingvoid

I’m always envious of people who have Grazr based widgets in their sidebars. So much more dynamic than a static blogroll. I’m part way through designing a makeover to Business Two Zero, so I took time out of the working day to spend a few minutes researching where to start to learn what to do […]

Enterprise software was on BBC News24 this morning, but for the wrong reasons. You’ll probably have heard that Oracle is suing SAP. Oracle’s own release is brief:

“On March 22, 2007, Oracle filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court in the Northern District of California against SAP. Among the claims made against SAP are violations […]

While I was in and around AccountingWEB this week there were banner adverts at the top of the page asking me to “Talk to Sage“. This is a marketing campaign offering me free business guides and software information. After I registered at the site (because they want to capture my details as a lead before […]