During a consulting gig, I came across a fine SAS solution named Propertyware. Sina and his team have developed a great solution which synchronizes with Quickbooks.
Kudos for working with a large partner successfully as I have found third party partnership programs as very difficult for a young company to contend with.
Sina comes from Oracle and Salesforce so he has the right pedigree to run a profitable company based on form, function, and great timing.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Have Some Cake...
I am totally obsessed with Cake Financial. Online Financial Services have just not come the same distance as the rest of the web (see online retail...); but here is a beacon in the black ocean that is online investing.
The promise of something like social investing is so powerful, it makes my strategic brain spin out of control. I have often found myself just staring at the Cake Financial pages in total awe. The phone rings, the cat destroys my office, it all goes silent as I try to capture the investing visions of so many people.
Safe, private, convenient, and anonymous, the cohesion of these characteristics and their presentation into an online product goes way beyond solutions like Yodlee, Mint, Virgin Money, or Prosper...
Cake actually achieves delivering the most useful investing insights I have "experienced" sparing me from the tedium of reading/interpreting online investor content.
The promise of something like social investing is so powerful, it makes my strategic brain spin out of control. I have often found myself just staring at the Cake Financial pages in total awe. The phone rings, the cat destroys my office, it all goes silent as I try to capture the investing visions of so many people.
Safe, private, convenient, and anonymous, the cohesion of these characteristics and their presentation into an online product goes way beyond solutions like Yodlee, Mint, Virgin Money, or Prosper...
Cake actually achieves delivering the most useful investing insights I have "experienced" sparing me from the tedium of reading/interpreting online investor content.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Open Landmark
Let the games begin. Tagging photos in Flickr that can be had in Openlandmark.com
You are now reading the blog of the guy in charge of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro landmarks!
More to come...
You are now reading the blog of the guy in charge of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro landmarks!
More to come...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Fon11 -- Beyond Jan in Malaysia
Kevin Leong is a bright and interesting guy. He has used his friends in Malaysia and San Jose State to conceive, build and launch a new mobile application, Fon11. Recently, the application was rated number one on the Apple iPhone site.
The most attention-getting voice I have ever known from there is Jan Geirnaert, coming live from his pool in Kuala Lumpur. An awesome global promoter, Jan got so far under Skype's skin, he created a far-reaching scandal for his use of the address, skype-gadgets.com (a reaction he never deserved). But while I sleep, he is constantly providing brewing useful technology madness in his home laboratory.
Back to Fon11, it is an easy to use application that gives my connected friends an idea of where I am and what I am doing. There will also be location-based information coming to the application, but all in due time. Ever the consummate strategist, Kevin's plans for Fon11 include moving to other telephones along with other countries.
The most attention-getting voice I have ever known from there is Jan Geirnaert, coming live from his pool in Kuala Lumpur. An awesome global promoter, Jan got so far under Skype's skin, he created a far-reaching scandal for his use of the address, skype-gadgets.com (a reaction he never deserved). But while I sleep, he is constantly providing brewing useful technology madness in his home laboratory.
Back to Fon11, it is an easy to use application that gives my connected friends an idea of where I am and what I am doing. There will also be location-based information coming to the application, but all in due time. Ever the consummate strategist, Kevin's plans for Fon11 include moving to other telephones along with other countries.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Now for the Marketer
When you (and other VortexDNA extension users) click on a URL, that URL is marked with a seven digit code (web DNA). This digital code places lightly circled links throughout the pages you surf reflecting the links that most fit your core values and interests.
For marketers, finding the right prospects only requires putting DNA on their products to match up with the predictive behavior (intention) of users (as opposed to the retrospective behavior used by Tacoda, Omniture, Revenue Sciences). Clickstreams are not collected and each user's DNA maintains complete anonymity.
So far, this is as distilled as it gets before I leap into all the dialogs about the semantic web.
For marketers, finding the right prospects only requires putting DNA on their products to match up with the predictive behavior (intention) of users (as opposed to the retrospective behavior used by Tacoda, Omniture, Revenue Sciences). Clickstreams are not collected and each user's DNA maintains complete anonymity.
So far, this is as distilled as it gets before I leap into all the dialogs about the semantic web.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
One Small Detail...
What is the mapping of the Web Genome? We have been crafting this story since last Friday.
Perhaps this is the best so far:
"When URLs are marked with your personal, seven digit number, you get an improved way to search the Internet. Search information is sorted for you based on your personal intentions, not by the most frequently visited sites (read, the GoogleMan). In other words, searches are returned in the order of relevance to you. When you and other VortexDNA extension users click about the web, only URL's and products that share all or part of their digital codes will appear."
This allows for marketers and portals to arrange page views that will consider your intentions rather than today's behavioral targeting.
Perhaps this is the best so far:
"When URLs are marked with your personal, seven digit number, you get an improved way to search the Internet. Search information is sorted for you based on your personal intentions, not by the most frequently visited sites (read, the GoogleMan). In other words, searches are returned in the order of relevance to you. When you and other VortexDNA extension users click about the web, only URL's and products that share all or part of their digital codes will appear."
This allows for marketers and portals to arrange page views that will consider your intentions rather than today's behavioral targeting.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Nodes Versus Systems
The Web is a conglomeration of nodes that make up the network.
A system hovers above the nodes, acting as a core infrastructure.
This is when change is possible when one considers human intentions of searching on the web. How satisfied am I with the "library" of results Google returns to me?
How interesting is it to maintain multiple presences on many different nodes and no one who matters really knows where I virtually reside?
'Nuff questions as I will be posting more entries around how personal search will change how we use the web and interact with people of similar intentions.
A system hovers above the nodes, acting as a core infrastructure.
This is when change is possible when one considers human intentions of searching on the web. How satisfied am I with the "library" of results Google returns to me?
How interesting is it to maintain multiple presences on many different nodes and no one who matters really knows where I virtually reside?
'Nuff questions as I will be posting more entries around how personal search will change how we use the web and interact with people of similar intentions.
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