In Q4 last year, Microsoft announced through its Inter­op­er­ability @ Microsoft blog that it was planning to open up its propri­etary PST email format used by Outlook. The data in .pst files has been acces­sible through the Messaging API (MAPI) and Outlook Object Model (two things of which my under­standing is minimal at best), but […]

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A recent article on WebCPA confused and inspired me: Accounting firms need to become more intel­ligent businesses by better lever­aging the time and knowledge of their profes­sional staff, according to a survey… […] Firms with a formal knowledge management program benefited from its imple­men­tation. Hmm… Intel­li­gence, good. Lever­aging knowledge, check. Formal knowledge management program, bingo! […]

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An esteemed Princeton economist has predicted that accoun­tants, lawyers and other highly educated and highly paid workers in the developed world will be made obsolete in the near future by lower cost alter­na­tives in the devel­oping world. From the best accoun­tants and lawyers to the smartest deriv­a­tives traders to teachers and lecturers, many of today’s most […]

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A week ago I was trading blog posts with David Rachford about accoun­tants marketing their profes­sional services using MySpace. The discussion had resulted in both of us signing up with the mega-popular site in an effort to under­stand the potential oppor­tu­nities. Results are still out on that avenue, but out of the Web 2.0 ether, […]

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