Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Steve
I’ve been pretty quiet about the project I’m currently working on, but that’s going to change now that we’re heading towards the beginning of our private beta program.
I’m currently working with a group of wickedly smart people to build a new hosted (yes, SaaS-based) collaborative decision making platform: DecisionSpaces.
What does DecisionSpaces do? There are [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Steve
A few months back, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison went on an impromptu rant in front of Wall Street Journal reporters talking about Cloud Computing. His basic theme was that Cloud Computing is just a buzzword for everything that people have already been doing for the last decade or so with the Internet. Some people [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Steve
One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is how companies might approach adopting more SaaS (software as a service). Specifically: what’s the motivating factor to make the jump from on-site hosted solutions all the way to SaaS delivery (skipping the Cloud Computing bump in-between), and which IT services in particular are easier [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Steve
Chris Bucchere, founder and CEO of bdg, the company behind the conference social networking solution The Social Collective gave me the scoop on their upcoming Facebook Connect integration.
The Social Collective is bdg’s first SaaS offering: a Ruby on Rails-based social networking application for conferences that allows attendees to mix and mingle online before, during [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Steve
In an article yesterday, InformationWeek named PBWiki their favorite on-demand wiki. I tried out PBWiki myself, and here’s my take on it:
I agree that it takes very little time to get started with a new Wiki. The site is very fast, and generally very easy to use. It only took me about 30 seconds [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2008 by Steve
Salesforce.com customers and developers can now buy and sell applications through Salesforce.com’s AppExchange program in just a few clicks.
According to a company announcement:
With Checkout, it is easier than ever for customers to do business with salesforce.com and our partners. Customers now have a "one stop shop" where you can trial, pay for, start using, [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Steve
Hot on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that SGI received a Nasdaq delisting notice, SGI has announced significant changes to its business plan, including the layoff of roughly 15% of its workforce (225 employees), including some executives and senior level positions.
According to the new announcement, SGI will focus its efforts around demands [...]
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