Archive for February, 2008

Preview of SAP Business ByDesign

February 27, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

SAP last September announced the early adopter roll-out of SAP Business ByDesign. Business ByDesign is SAP’s entry in the On Demand Business Applications space and is being marketed to SMB customers with 25 to 500 users.

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Category: ERP, OnDemand Software, SaaS

W3C SPARQL Specification Lays Groundwork For The Semantic Web

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February 19, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

The W3C Semantic Web Group recently standardized its recommendation for the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing information in the Web.

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Category: Enterprise 3.0, Semantic Web, Web 3.0

Get Satisfaction Accepting Beta API Applications

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February 11, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Get Satisfaction is accepting applications for the upcoming release of its Beta API. The API is a RESTful API that will allow developers to access most of the functionality that is built into Get Satisfaction while allowing questions to be broadcast out to Social Media such as Facebook or perhaps one day Linked-In.

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Category: Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0

Venture Capital begins to understand SaaS

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February 5, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal outlines how some VC firms are slowly beginning to understand the business model of On Demand Software as a Service Companies.

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Category: OnDemand Software, SaaS, Venture Capital

OnDemand Speed Links Feb 1 2008

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February 1, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Microsoft makes 44 billion USD offer for Yahoo
To underscore how market dynamics and perception of companies has changed drastically over the past few years; this acquisition would actually be welcomed by many.

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Category: Americas, Mergers and Acquisitions, Speedlinks, Web 2.0