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Doug Richards – 6 Rules for Start ups

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Where are you go ?

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

The Zenga Brothers and Brian Vernor teamed up on the 2008 Tour d’Afrique and spent four months on the tour capturing it from their perspective. Since then, they have been busy editing their hundreds of hours of stunning footage into a full length documentary called Where Are You Go?.

It’s released this coming Friday. Can’t wait to see it…

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Salesforce does content management …

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Salesforce have launched a new product called “Salesforce Sites” which allows Salesforce customers to easily create content managed websites with workflow and full CRM integration. I’ve only seen the demo video (link below) but it looks like it could live up to it’s claim that:

“Salesforce.com will change forever the way businesses build websites”

http://salesforce.vo.llnwd.net/o1/us/us/Sites/sites_techoverview.mov

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More Tour d’Afrique Photos

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

For anyone who is interested, my friend and fellow Tour d’Afrique rider Denis Korivo has posted some photo’s from the Tour online. Denis is clearly an accomplished photographer and the photos are stunning.

Check them out here

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Best Worst Website of 2008 ??

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The following website wrongly came 5th in the webpagesthatsuck.com “Worst Websites of 2008″ awards.

http://www.cleanishappy.com/

The site describes an innovative type of toilet seat called a Washlet that apparently redefines the way you think about your toilet. With such a bold claim the website uses multimedia flash to great effect to justify their claim and sell their product.

The video presentation is extremely well done, amusing and compelling. This is probably one of the most engaging websites I’ve seen. With a “buy it now” button at the right price, they could sell trillions of these things.

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Google Wave

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

The following is a video demo of “Google Wave” presented at Google IO 2009

Wave is Google’s replacement for email. It is stunning in a number of ways and I think it will revolutionise business communication, collaboration, customer service and of course content management. The user interface alone will reset peoples expectations of what constitutes good or even *usable* software.

The video is 1 hour 20 minutes long. You don’t have to watch it all to get an idea of how ground breaking Google Wave but there are amazing revelations all the way through. I’m not easily impressed but Google Wave is the most impressive piece of software I’ve ever seen.

Google Wave is being developed by the same developers that created Google Maps and is due for release as open source software in Autumn 2009 !

If anyone reading this can see the transformational potential of hooking Wave into a CRM such as Salesforce and would like to sponsor a bit of development, then please contact me.

More information about Google Wave

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