The bottle of red wine on my table just provoked a realisation for me – it seems that Kiwis are behind many of the new web-based services on the market. I wonder what it is that makes our friends from New Zealand so good at this stuff?
Reading David Terrar’s posting on how useful the term “Cloud” is proving to be in the real world, the world where small business owners live and have to make sense of technology, triggered an old memory for me.
I met up with Hamish Edwards and Darren Glanville from Xero online accounting software yesterday, when they dropped in to the Pearson & Associates offices. It was good to meet Hamish for the first time, after previous telephone and cyberspace conversations. Most of the talk was about how Xero could help us with the process [...]
In a post on the Xero Blog today, Mark Vickers discusses how users of software (desktop or web-based) are always vulnerable to “vendor lock-in” – in essence having their data stuck in a system they now want out of. He cites the example of FaceBook’s recent change to its privacy policy, then moves on to [...]
