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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. Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square). In my estimation this is one of the biggest strategic mistakes Google has made in not competing more aggressively with AWS.

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

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To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. I guess the “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap&# mentality convinced this retailer that they could do the same with cloud services. Work it did. Processing.

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