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I discovered a new site for borrowing and lending money. (Hat tip: Jeff Nolan of Venture Chronicles). This site allows users to lend and borrow money directly from each other. The concept is very similar to a Bank where we all deposit money and then the Bank lends our money to borrowers. However, in the […] 

The buzzword has arrived. The applications will follow. The blogging community has had an epiphany- If we could transplant the success Google and others have had and make boatloads of money, it would be really rewarding. The solution: create Enterprise 2.0. The problem is that all of us are struggling to define the killer apps […] 

InfoWorld reports that “BEA Systems on Wednesday announced its $87.5 million acquisition of Fuego, a business process management software (BPM) company. “ BEA finally accepts defeat that it has been unable to build out a BPM platform that is easy to use and will actually be adopted by its customer base. With Oracle and IBM […] 

There is a new kid on the block called PayTextMe that lets you do PayPal style transactions with a mobile phone using SMS Text messages. But the thing that really impressed me was their Go-To Market Plan: Since, PayPal is their obvious big brother, they advertise using PayTextMe for your craigslist transactions (eat that EBay!) […] 

Jeff Nolan asks the following question on his blog: I’d love to hear your thoughts on what the benefits of a pure SOA application framework are. While the technical benefits are important, of equal interest are the actual end-user business benefits for companies investing in this technology. I predict that the biggest benefits of SOA […] 

Kintan asks in his blog as to what is the killer app of Web 2.0. My bet is on Email. Any software company (enterprise or otherwise) that can successfully change our email experience will be a huge winner. And to the naysayers out there- it has already happened once. Hotmail is not what email started […] 

“Eat your own dog food”- that adage is not working for Microsoft or any other ‘big’ software company. The problem is that they do not have people that really appreciate good dog food i.e., Dogs. Our friend at Innovation Creators blogs about Google winning the race for Web 2.0 office tools. Yes, Google is definitely […] 

Here is a detailed report on the Web 2.0 event. I would really like to know how many people understand Web 2.0 as would help understand where we are in the Hype Cycle. The consumer Web 2.0 space seems over-crowded. Or is the fundamental folly is to think in terms of looking for the next […] 

I wonder if the teenagers building websites today on myspace etc will regret their decisions 10 years from now. I surely would have regretted today if I had blogged on “some” of my experiences in grade school through college. I don’t want 10 years from now when I am up for a executive job to […] 

The panel included Jeff Nolan, Ross Mayfield , Charlene Li and Jeff Clavier. I have attended similar events over the last year or so and I can see that their is clarity of views on Web 2.0 amongst the experts. The audience range from clueless to the Web-2.0-is-rich-UI-for-the-web crowd to a few people that really […] 

Oracle unveiled the impressive progress it has made with its Fusion initiative. They showed complete end-to-end application built using Fusion Middleware. The two-fold approach includes: SOA Middleware Application functionality improvements Oracle is committing to enhance existing applications. (Personal Opinions expressed here. These opinions do not represent opinions of any companies organizations.)

Many companies grow their revenues and profits through acquisition. Recently a spate of acquisitions have included Skype, Siebel, PeopleSoft, etc. The key points for the acquring companies are: Has the (large) company stopped innovating? How will the innovations by the acquired company be leveraged? Is it a new line of business and profits will mainly […] 

Oracle acquired ProfitLogic. A Pricing Engine with functionality that includes dynamic pricing. I feel that my previous post was a good hunch of things to come.

Its interesting to watch. Lots of smart people doing lots of dumb things that eventually create mediocre business value to the customer with a blase experience for the end-user. Attended a seminar by Adam Bosworth He made some excellent points about the worlds of databases (RDBMS) and the web-at-large. He did not think that RFID […]