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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). I first noticed it while filming an episode of This Week in Cloud Computing.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

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I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Of course I could go on and on including businesses like AirBnB, DropBox, Box.net, Yammer and so on. My experience in looking at deflationary businesses says that they should pay attention to it.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. I was dead set against it. Processing.

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