My favorite Twitter app, Twhirl died on me two days ago.  Actually, it’ snot Twhirl itself, the error message clearly identifies Adobe Air, stating the installation is damaged. Fixing it should be easy: just reinstall Air.  Except… I can’t.  Adobe installer says: This version of Adobe Air is already installed on your system.   Yeah, thank you, [...]

This morning must be a day when the on-demand gods are smiling on the accounting vendors. FreeAgent (I have a tiny holding) just announced that Upton & Co has joined the ‘FreeAgent Friendly’ band of professional firms willing to work with FreeAgent. Uptons is based in West Yorkshire with satellite offices in both London and Newcastle. [...]

Workday is starting to sign up large companies - Flextronics and Chiquita - for its SaaS HR. Over 18 months ago, when his Workday product was barely ready Dave Duffield asked me to introduce him to some of my bigger...

Xero (a sponsor for this site) has exceeded its post IPO targets. According to the company: 1406 customer acquisitions compared with a target of 1300 in the offer document Cash at May 10th: $8,991,000, $613,000 higher than forecast Subscription revenue: $134,000 Net loss: $4.3 million, lower than anticipated due to higher interest received Substantial pipeline The loss may seem staggering but [...]

"..passengers submit their luggage at the check-in counter, as before, and the ground staff attaches a paper strap to it. But the strap now has an integrated radio chip with antenna, microprocessor and a memory to record all the relevant...

Remember that funny IBM commercial where the help desk lady tells the truckers they are lost because the RFID tags told her so? While the market is applauding IBM's quarter, I want to tell it it is lost. Why? Because...

Just got through reading this article on Appirio in Forbes online.

Essentially Forbes holds Appirio up as the new paragon of startup thrift. The founder’s taken such overhead reducing steps as:

1. No physical office space except for a rented cube.
2. A team distributed throughout the country, mostly in low-ish cost US states like Arkansas
3. The company owns no hardware. Everything is by the drink from Amazon ECC
4. The company spends ...

Ryan Carson has criticized Web Mission o8, arguing that: I believe the intention for Web Mission was great - networking and exposure for UK web start-ups. That’s fab, but here’s the problem - this project is declaring to the whole world, loud and clear, “We don’t have what it takes over here.” I’ve attended a number of [...]