By Brad Feld on March 10, 2010
Today, Amazon’s 1-Click patent was confirmed following a four year re-examination. Amazon now has ownership of a highly controversial and very absurd patent which I hope will only be used defensively. This a classic example of a “business method patent” that should simply not exist. I continue to wait patiently to see what the Supreme [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Facebook, google, jet pack, Patent, Patents, Supreme Court
By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners.
The new Marketplace fills [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged AppExchange, crm, echosign, echosystem, erp, force.com, freshbooks, google, google apps, google apps marketplace, marketplace, netsuite, partners, SaaS, salesforce.com, smb, sme, zoho
By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010
If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then I respect that. And it’s all a big IF.
So no, I am simply dusting off an old post I wrote [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged accounting, all-in-one, AppExchange, Atlassian, bbd, Business ByDesign, business software, crm, enterprise software, google, google apps, lightweight software, netsuite, On Demand, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, small business suite, smb, sme, software as a service, zoho
By Brad Feld on March 8, 2010
If you live in Boulder, it’s time to help bring the Google Fiber experiment to our awesome city. A bunch of folks from all over Boulder are working on the Boulder Fiber project to help us become one of the cities for the Google Fiber for Communities project.
Boulder is a perfect city for this. When [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Boulder, boulder fiber, Broadband Internet access, Facebook, fiber, google, Google Fiber
By Brad Feld on March 2, 2010
Remember rock / paper / scissors? It’s a beautiful kids game that unlike tic-tac-toe regularly results in a winner. Paper always beats rock. Rock always beats scissors. Scissors always beats paper. But what happens when you only have two – say “software” and “network”.
Whenever I’m at a Silicon Flatirons event, I always get into an [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged AT&T, google, internet, iPhone, network, Smartphones, Software, technology
By Michael Coté on February 24, 2010
KLM & GMail, Macs at work, Austin VCs, a billion pounds of data.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged analyst, apple, Consumer electronics, google, investment, Numbers, Personal computer, redmonk, Sony
By Zoli Erdos on February 24, 2010
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Italian Judge Oscar Magi (photo @ TechCrunch , but I am not showing it for fear he might slap me with a privacy-invasion charge) has no idea what he’s dealing with. He’s just allowed evil witches get away with only 6 months suspended jail sentence. (C’mon, why would their employer insist on covering up [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged google, Humor, Italy, judge, legal system, Spanish Inquisition, Witch-hunt, YouTube
By R "Ray" Wang on February 17, 2010
Chatter represents both a collaboration application and platform
Announced at the 2009 Dreamforce conference in November, Chatter represents both a collaboration application and platform. Software built on the Force.com platform will gain the collaboration capabilities. Solutions in AppExchange will be able to use profiles, real time streams, and other API’s. Some key features include:
Aggregating streams [...]
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By Phil Wainewright on February 15, 2010
It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks in the world of collaboration software, with major initiatives from two leading vendors at opposite ends of the market spectrum. At the heavyweight end of the enterprise market, SAP released into beta its 12sprints collaborative decision-making tool. From the high-volume end of the individual consumer market, Google unveiled [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged 12sprints, Business process, collaboration, Decision making, Enterprise 2.0, google, google apps, Google Buzz, Google Buzzz, salesforce.com, sap, social computing
Steve Jobs: Make room
By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 4, 2010
Something remarkable happened in the Valley last week.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Larry Page of Google, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins (KP), and executives from Walmart, Coca-Cola, FedEx and elsewhere attended a launch party. All kinds of media descended.
And it had nothing to do with an Apple product. In fact, it [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, google, Industry Commentary, iPhone, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, microsoft, polymath | Leave a response