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ThinkFree's multi-modal Office

While checking out new products at DemoFall 2006, I chatted with TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree, a competitor to Zoho, Google and others trying to take on the dominant Microsoft Office franchise. He was showing off the AJAX edition his companys browser-based office suite. ThinkFree also has a desktop version...

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Blog posts 2006-10-03

ThinkFree Online joins Web Office sweepstakes

After Google bought Writely, as if it legitimized the notion of a Web-based Office, the blogosphere is speculating about Google Office there already is a GOffice from a small startup and who will disrupt the Microsoft Office empire (see Richard MacManus' post on the Web Office). While I was at...

Tags: ThinkFree

Blog posts 2006-03-16

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ThinkFree and EditGrid announce online spreadsheet partnership

Why are these two men smiling? Because a partnership that increases the value of both parties is always cause for celebration.ThinkFree has been on a roll this year with big presence at both ETech where CEO TJ Kang also presented a new document sharing community and Web 2.0 Expo. I've...

Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity

Blog posts 2007-06-04

More reflections from ETech

In the morning sessions at ETech today, I listened to a very philosophical session by Mike Kuniavsky on the implications and role of magic in this technological world we inhabit. His presentation was heady stuff that engaged a number of people in the audience in a good conversation. The second...

Tags: Desktops, Zimbra, Web

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Office 2.0: Where are we at and please get off my network

Office 2.0: Where are we at and please get off my networkPriceless[i]A good example of when Office 2.0 doesn't work is during demos at the Office 2.0 conference. Presenters were hampered by a slow network–not the best way to sell the virtues of cloud computing. TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree,...

Tags: Office 2.0, network

Discussion threads 2006-10-11

Office 2.0: Where are we at and please get off my network

Om Malik GigaOm, Rajen Sheth Google, Mark Suster Koral, Shel Israel Naked Conversations, Karen Leavitt WebEx, Ismael Ghalimi (Intalio, Office 2.0 conference host)During a panel titled "Office 2.0: Where Are We," the panelists above gave their assessments on the state of 2.0. My favorite quote was from Shel Israel: ...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2.0

Blog posts 2006-10-11

Software for the enterprise

We move to the enterprise software segment of the morning.System One, is an online collaborative notebook built in wiki. The service is an aggregation point, with RSS feeds for various contributors or sources that can be dragged into the environment, which as a "semantic-based information framework," that includes security and...

Tags: Wiki, This IS

Blog posts 2006-09-26

ThinkFree review Pt 2 - and Java vs Ajax discussion

I recently spoke to ThinkFree CEO TJ Kang and this is Part 2 in a two-part series based on that conversation. Java is more efficient than Ajax for advanced Web Office functionality In my previous post I took a high-level look at ThinkFree and its place in the Web Office...

Tags: ThinkFree, AJAX

Blog posts 2006-05-04

ThinkFree Office shaping up nicely

I had an opportunity to chat with Jonathan Crow of ThinkFree last week and he showed me some of what's new in the online productivity suite. What struck me as the most exciting thing ThinkFree is doing is their recognition that an online alternative to Microsoft Office must be...

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Blog posts 2006-05-03

ThinkFree - world's best Web Office?

Last week I spoke to TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree - which is "I think we are better [than OpenOffice.org] - especially with the spreadsheet and presentation" billing itself as the "World's Best Web Based Office Suite". We spoke about how ThinkFree compares to other Web Office products and how...

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Blog posts 2006-05-01

For ThinkFree, timing is everything

I first met TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree, about five years ago when ASPs were -- conceptually, at least -- all the rage. His pure Java-based, Microsoft Office-compatible online productivity applications were very slick to me then, but the world -- and the typical connection speeds -- were...

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Blog posts 2005-10-05

For ThinkFree, timing is everything

I first met TJ Kang, CEO of ThinkFree, about five years ago when ASPs were -- conceptually, at least -- all the rage. His pure Java-based, Microsoft Office-compatible online productivity applications were very slick to me then, but the world -- and the typical connection speeds -- were not ready....

Tags: ThinkFree

Blog posts 2005-10-05