A call for car 2.0

26Apr09

I just watched the TED talk, Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars, and I became very excited with his proposal.

He says car 2.0 needs to be about infrastructure coherence and separating the battery from the car. So what does he need:
- Charging stations where you normally [...]

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Tags: Car 2.0, electric cars, Nissan-Renault, Shai agassi

The tiger is back!

25Apr09

Finally! The moment I have been waiting for is here! The tiger in front of Oslo Central Station is back! Oslo is once again claiming it’s rights as Tigerstaden (tiger city).
I have tried to find out where it has been and whether it was plans for it to come back, but did not succeed. Well, [...]

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Tags: tiger, tiger of norway, tiger of oslo, tigerstaden

Projectplace flies high on SaaS model

24Apr09

I am referring to Swedish SaaS Company Projectplace International AB, which proves the Enterprise SaaS model absolutely viable. I was flying home from Tromsø the other day and read an 8 page insert to SAS inflight magazine Scanorana (a nice advertising media by the way).
More than 300 000 projects are currently run on projectplace. I [...]

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Tags: enterprise collaboration, enterprise saas, projectplace, saas

Yammer – Free enterprise Twitter as SaaS

20Apr09

Steria Norway is testing collaboration with Yammer – so far we are satisfied and a need is uncovered. It is a great example of enterprise software as a service solution featuring what seems to be good enough enterprise security by reducing visibility by others to only those with same mail domain.
Other than that it is [...]

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Tags: enterprise collaboration, nettskyen, saas, security, yammer