Business Two Zero

We’re currently working with David Lee of Hong Kong-based Team and Concepts Limited (TnC), looking at connecting EditGrid with Twinfield. We think EditGrid is by far the best online spreadsheet and collaboration tool available, and part of David’s approach is to partner and integrate with a number of solutions.
Late yesterday I heard that they are […]

While I was researching something else entirely (WeeWorld and Wee-Mee avatars), Steve Clayton tipped me off to the fact that a new release of Windows Live Writer beta came out 2 days ago.   Windows Live Writer is definitely the best blog editor I’ve come across, and they’ve been listening hard to the customer feedback, because […]

There is a ThinkFree branded memory stick languishing next to my coffee machine, regularly reminding me that I should take a proper look and review the product. It’s a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off. A few days ago I got a little […]

That might be a good title for a song by Little Feat, but actually I’m voicing the frustration that my Enterprise Irregular blogging chums are having fun over at SAP’s SAPPHIRE 07 conference. I get the chance to join in when the show hits Vienna in two weeks, but in the meantime I have to attend vicariously […]

As I write this week’s roundup, there is some debate going on between the Enterprise Irregulars on the SaaS term itself - could there be a better term? It’s a bit ugly, and a bit of a mouthful, but Vinnie suggests “as a Service” is here to stay. He says:

“Few of my corporate clients have […]

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 […]

Earlier in the week I reported on Cisco’s big acquisition of Webex. The Webinar Blog points to some posts and analysis I hadn’t seen, including Infoworld’s opinion piece which says:

“Cisco had two choices. Either accept being the dumb pipe, a.k.a. network infrastructure supplier, for the coming age of SaaS and other Web 2.0 applications, or […]

By now you will have heard that Cisco entered an agreement to buy web conferencing and collaboration software company Webex yesterday for $3.2 billion. That represents a 23 percent premium over their closing share price on Wednesday. Since it’s such a big deal, It even made the BBC morning news. It marks another significant push […]

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle (on SFGate.com) caught my eye:

“A new breed of worker, fuelled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehouses of San Francisco. Roaming from cafe to cafe and borrowing a name from the nomadic Arabs who wandered freely in the desert, they’ve come […]

Over the last few weeks I’ve been musing about innovation and the software development process, partly because I’ve taken on a number of new Microsoft products and have been wondering about their origins, and partly through discussions with various people comparing what small teams have achieved set against those in much larger companies. Over at […]