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BarCamp Ottawa

November 15th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
Bar Camp

This morning I offered a presentation to Peter Childs for BarCamp... an informal kitchen talk about products I had worked on that failed miserably - despite great technology! Well - now I find myself in the terrific bitHeads auditorium... so much for the kitchen! I'll be talking about three Nortel telecom products that had amazing potential ...

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Pimp my Gift!

November 14th, 2006 Jobe Roberts 2 comments
Land

Here we are not even mid-November and already Christmas decorations are up in our building. I suppose some of us like to get Christmas shopping out of the way early, after all, that gives us more time to play with our kids' toys. If you're like me, you take the time to test out the ...

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SensoryMetrics welcomes Baxter – User Experience Beagle!

November 13th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois No comments
Baxter

Being a mere 10 weeks of age hasn't stopped Baxter from becoming a world class innovation hound. He joins our writing team after turning down an offer from GigaOm (he found the ads too distracting... particularly those Meow Mix banners.) Previously, Baxter could be found at Dogster.com - a leader in canine social ...

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Alec Saunders reviews CaseCamp Ottawa

November 10th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois No comments

Alec Saunders has an amazing ability to capture and synthesize information on the fly. He did a great job capturing my presentation / conversation at Ottawa CaseCamp 1. Thanks Alec for the kind words and encouragement!

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The Vista 350 telephone and the birth of SaaS

November 8th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois 145 comments
Vista 350

Warning: this is a retrospective post... don't worry, it concludes with a happy "today" message for the Software as a Service industry (SaaS). In 1988, the top song was George Michael's Faith... or Tracy Chapman's Fast Cars - depending on the chart. Not a bad soundtrack to this post. I had just joined Northern Telecom's lab ...

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CaseCamp: MARKETING SaaS

November 5th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments

The traditional view of "software as a product" is quickly being replaced by "software as a service" (or SaaS). Consumers are opting to pay monthly fees for a service rather than buying software outright and having to host and manage it. The poster child for this business model is Salesforce.com provider of a hosted Customer ...

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