My name is Magnus Svantegård (LinkedIn), live in Sweden, and is the Product Manager for Datscha and Partner in Stronghold Invest. I believe in smart use of Internet in the Real Estate industry.
A company that is going 'Bedouin' on a large scale is MySQL. Today I learned that they have 400 employers in 23 countries out of which 80% (?) works from home!
Imagine the impact on the property industry (read office market) if a greater number of companies takes this approach!
For anyone involved in web projects it's interesting to follow the development of services that are really raising the bar of what has been done before. I believe there are two interesting areas to follow right now; Web Office and Application Creation.
As a coincidence two different blogs today have put together overview of those.
Web Office
Those are the ones aiming to (in the long run) compete with Microsoft Office, for example Googles Docs & Spreadsheet and ZoHo. The Read and Write blog has a great overview in this post.
Application creation
Not an application itself, rather a platform to build your own application without programming skills. Read more about it this post by the Techcrunch blog.
The 22th of february could be remembered as the G-day, the day Google released their Apps Premium service including already avaliable products. However, in this package they are free of ads, larger storage and tech support. See more coverage at TechCrunch or Cnet.
The most interesting point for me isn't a feature comparison with the Microsoft package (there is still a long way to go), which has been around since 1989, but more the fact that more and more business are moving to using the Internet as a platform for their business (and that Google starts charging for their services). Listen to a number of large business on their view of G-Apps.
One aspect often raised is if it's secure enough to have ones data on, for example, Googels servers. Find out more at those Zdnet blogs entries, the first and the other.
Are you wondering how your future customers (or colleges) are using new technology? Take a look at this video from a the Churchill Club event 'Next Generation Innovation' , run by Guy Kawasaki, interviewing youngsters about their use of mobiles, Internet and PC.
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First of all, everyone in marketing should take notice (even though marketing won't go away, your next campaign may need to be different), but not to far away these young people will start looking for employers and a place to live. How do you attract them?
Source: Drew Meyers blog
Check out this video from the Salesforce "Future of Software" event in London on the 13th September. (There could be a need for a leaving contact information to see it.)
The event is two hours, but you're able to jump between the different parts.
Marc on the SaaS model: fast forward to 64 minutes in to the presentation
Click on the Carbon Trust in the menu and wait to Marc is back. It's also possible to click in the timeline box to jump in the presentation.
A business case: take a look at the Total Jobs presentation (by the way, this guy has brilliant presentation skills!)
Source: found the video at the "Where is the upside?" blog
Magnus (The Believer)