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A few are holding the hostage the many or it’s our data stupid!
This is quick post on an issue that has been with us since telecoms companies and other major utilities first gained then maneuvered to retain their cozy oligopolies. The story so far in recent web history Read the rest of this entry »
Zoho is missing a trick
I am a great fan of Salesforce despite it now being wedded to its silly Chatter app.. However I am still watching www.zoho.com with interest. The issue as to when we go is very simple though – when Zoho can deliver what we need in the web age. Read the rest of this entry »
Bringing the open source model to data
The battleground today is for users’ data. Google uses this to great effect and has now made a grab for users’ browsing data with Google Chrome.
The various rumours about social networking sites sharing data have proved unfounded. The data is core to their business model and not for sharing!
How about a product that is open source and captures data on the community for the community. A product that is entirely open and transparent about what data is captured and how it is used? What if this product allowed users to determine how they shared their data? What if this product charged commercial vendors for use of this data with the money going back to the community? Watch this space!
Another candidate to replace Google from my desktop!
http://www.trueknowledge.com is worth looking at! Ask real questions and get exact answers from the service without human intervention (except writing and managing the code of course:))
The Innovators Dilemma – again!
Reading through a piece about Microsoft’s SaaS initiatives I couldn’t help thinking of the great book from the mid 90s written by Christensen called The Innovators Dilemma, When New Technologies Cause Great Firms To Fail.
The only way for Microsoft to counter the threat of a new technology like software a a service (“SaaS”) is to create a separate division with transparent licensing over the Office suite and a lot of autonomy to go make it work! I would prefer a model where Microsoft supports partners to provide MS under a SaaS model with MS providing these partners with integration for users across products and services and a certification program rather like Salesforce with its App Exchange. A business with Google Email would ask its MS partner to easily integrate this with the Corporate Wiki, MS Calender and Push Email product. This would hurt Google more than MS by ruining Google’s “suite of good enough products” strategy but more on this later. Best of breed will beat best of suite.
