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Jan 7 / 1:32am

Never fall for the compliance trick.

From Facebook, Goldman Sachs & How Money Seeks Regulatory Free Zones

After the dot com bubble burst, quickly followed by major accounting scandals such as Enron, Congress, in the way that it normally does, overreacted with a kneejerk response. The most obvious part of this was the Sarbanes-Oxley rules, which didn't do much (if anything) to actually prevent future frauds, but did make the cost of being a public company much, much, much higher -- effectively creating a serious tax on startups looking to go public. It also built up an entire industry around SOX compliance, that almost guarantees the law can never be repealed. In response, an already weak IPO market went almost entirely dormant... 

Never fall for the compliance trick.

Filed under  //  artificial value   compliance   enterprise   social software  
 
Mar 15 / 2:16am

Web developers: Please get your existing app into the Google Apps Marketplace and reach a whole new hungry audience.

There are a more than a few things that keep web app developers from marketing their stuff to the enterprise: Price-point chasms, high acquisition costs, and old-school authentication schemes.  But what if you could offload most of that stuff to Google? AND, have them do a bunch of marketing for you?

Well, doy: You can with the Google Apps Marketplace that was just announced last week.

But after talking to a couple of developer friends, I realize that Google didn't make it extremely clear how all this works.
Those of us inside Googlelandia reality bubble had giant a-ha! moments when we heard about the new store.  But many awesome, talented devs have only interacted with Google Apps from a user perspective, not a developer one.

So I'm telling you all to check out the webinar that Google is offering on Wednesday.  It's all about how to get your application into the Google Apps Marketplace.  I don't work for Google, so I don't know the exact agenda.  But it's supposed to cover both technical and policy stuff. (And actually, I think the policy stuff will be more useful to you. The tech stuff is less unique to Google Apps than the policy stuff.)

Filed under  //  consumerization of it   enterprise   google apps   marketing   marketplace  
 
Feb 9 / 2:11am

Google's new Developer blog: Some Google Apps love

Yesteryday the Googleatwork Twitter feed sent out some interesting news: There's a new Google Apps Developer Blog.

I know, I know... Google has a lot of blogs already. It's true.  But this one is really needed, and it's a great sign.

Sure, Google has always been developer friendly. They host code for free. They constantly give away libraries for both their own tools, and things that have standalone utility. They have plentiful, well-maintained API's. 

But when compared with Google Maps, Android, etc... I've sometimes felt that Google Apps have been neglected (in terms of developer love.) A quick survey of the past two years' Google I/O sessions shows a big mobile/consumer bias.

And last year I was stung by a major change to the Google Apps provisioning API that was buried in a mailing list announcement. (And not published on the Google Code blog, where lots of other API announcements get made. :(  )

So it's great to have this new blog where Google Apps developers can get some focused love. And that's not all.  This year's Google I/O already shows promise of having more Google Apps sessions than before. And, not to be the world's most boring gossip blog, but there's a rumor there's going to be a Google Apps store for 3rd party add-ons.

So thanks, Google, for showing this Google Apps/enterprise love.  Keep it coming.

Filed under  //  IT   blog   developers   enterprise   google apps   google docs   google i/o   gossip   rumors