Day: July 1, 2007

Dennis Howlett has teamed up with three others to bring a simple yet effective web based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application to the UK market. FreeAgent is an online money management tool intended for small, UK-based service businesses of 1-3 employees. This will include most kinds of freelancers, contractors and consultants. Whether you are just getting started, or are already in business as a sole trader or limited company, VAT registered or not, FreeAgent can save you time. FreeAgent will probably not be for you if you tend to sell lots of products rather than services, hold materials and stock, or handle…

Creating an API is no mean feat! Talk to many enterprise software vendors, and ask for a copy of their API. Some have it. Some have what they think is an API but of very little use to another. Some have never thought of having an API in the first place – what? You want to integrate with my software? Why do you want to do that for? I am certainly not going to give you the ability to wreck my software? I know this is of the old school mentality – but it is also reality for some software…

Rhys Blakely of TimesOneline has published a working progress Top 50 business blogs. The Top 50 is split into Banking & Finance Construction & Property Consumer Goods Engineering Health Industrials Leisure Media Natural Resources Retailing Support Services Technology Telecoms Transport Utilities Among the Blogs I recognise include: Scobeleizer – by Robert Scoble, started when he was an employee of Microsoft Jonathan’s Blog – by Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, the first blogger to receive an official comment from the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. TechCrunch – by Michael Arrington, ex-boss of Sam Sethi Seth Godin – by Seth Godin, the marketing guru. I…