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Zoho updates Notebook

Zoho just announced a few key updates to their Notebook application. The company has been busy this last week with the release of a Zoho FaceBook application that provides access to documents created with Zoho Writer, Sheet, and Show and the release of iZoho which allows display (but not editing...

Tags: Web Apps, Software

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Zoho Meeting now in public beta

Zoho has just announced that Meeting, their web conferencing and desktop sharing tool, has been opened for public beta testing. The service, which has been in private beta for some time, provides the following features and capabilities: Meetings allows you to share your desktop with multiple attendees. Attendees can attend the meeting...

Tags: Web Apps, Software

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Is Safari a honeypot for the iPhone?

I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. I came across the interesting notion that Apple chose to release the Safari for Windows beta to have the hacker community expose and document holes in the browser in advance of the iPhone release at the end of...

Tags: Mac OS X, Mobility, Software, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-06-16

Zoho launches Creator 2.0

Zoho announced today that a new, improved version of Creator, their database application builder, has been released. If you've ever struggled with "simple" tools like FileMaker Pro or Microsoft Access you know that constructing an application that draws on one or more database files can get very complex very quickly.Creator...

Tags: Web Apps, Software

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Big day for browser releases

While the browser market is still essentially a two-horse race, that is not stopping other contenders from trying to break into the game. Netscape has just released version 9.0 (beta 1) of their Navigator browser based on core Mozilla code which has a number of very interesting ideas in play,...

Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Software, Mac

Blog posts 2007-06-05

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

Work virtually from anywhere

Leo Babauta at Web Worker Daily has posted a very thorough guide to working virtually that focuses primarily on tools but also includes some excellent workflow recommendations. It's a bit Google-centric but he does provide a number of alternative choices for most of the key ingredients for a cloud-based workspace.What...

Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, OpenOffice, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac

Blog posts 2007-06-03

Google Gears - the game has changed

Wow!I'm not often left feeling completely astonished these days. I like to think I'm pretty on top of where things are going. But I just got completely blindsided by Google Gears. There's already plenty of first-glance analysis to help you grasp the magnitude of what they've done. I recommend you...

Tags: Google, Mobility, Software, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Zoho Notebook now in Public Beta

At the end of January, I wrote about Zoho Notebook, the latest addition to the company's stable of web-based applications. At the time, I was very impressed with the concept and initial execution and today, Zoho has made Notebook publicly available as a beta. If you use a product like...

Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Twitter ubiquity - more ways to microblog

Two new ways to Twitter popped up in my RSS feeds this morning. First, Twitter has launched a new mobile UI that loads very quickly on both the Nokia N95 and the Treo 700p in my tests. Much better IMO than using SMS to check in with my friends list...

Tags: Web Apps, Software, Mobility

Blog posts 2007-05-05

A collection of Mac tidbits

Yesterday was a good day if youre a Mac user. Here are three nice things I came across while catching up on RSS feeds last night:Flickr has released a new Universal Binary of the Flickr Uploadr tool for the Mac (can I buy a vowel please?). According the the download...

Tags: Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Google, Gadgetry, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Instant e-mail message form: Contactify

I just came across Contactify via Digital Inspiration. This is a very nice solution if you want to add a way for people reading your blog to be able to contact you without a lot of heavy lifting. Its also a great way to add a "contact me" link...

Tags: Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Blogs, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-04-21

Web 2.0 Expo notes for Monday

Its been a pretty action-packed day here at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco between a full slate of sessions and a number of briefings with companies who are announcing interesting new or improved products and services here at the event. One of the trends I see is that there...

Tags: Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Software, Productivity

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Twitter goes prime time on Fox TV

I just got the Fox TV newsletter (Im a 24 fan) and saw this promotional blurb for the new series Drive which stars Nathan Fillion of Firefly and Serenity fame. The shows Executive Producer, Greg Yaitanes, will be doing a live Twitter-cast during the premier. Pretty cool.Fox is running a...

Tags: Software, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-04-14

Wagstaff hits a home run on "death of software"

This is a post I wish Id written. WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff, writing on his loose wire blog, sums up the sturm und drang about the "death" of Microsoft recently announced by Paul Graham with an elegant and hard to argue observation. What were really talking about has less to...

Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-04-09

How I solved my Outlook-Google Calendar issues

Working on a number of different PCs and connected devices introduces all sorts of complexity. A constant issue is how to keep all of the information I need access to at hand, regardless of the device I happen to be using. E-mail is pretty easy - between Gmail and IMAP...

Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mac, Mastering the Inbox, Microsoft Office, Mobility, Productivity, Software, Tablet PCs, Utilities and Add-Ins, Vista, Web Apps, Windows

Blog posts 2007-03-13

ThinkFree Office - 250,000 registered users!

Congratulations to the good folks at ThinkFree who announced today that they have now registered 250,000 users in their online community. The stats on this community are mighty impressive. According to the announcement today, the ThinkFree Online community: Accounts for 228,000 unique page views Stores over 654,000 files totaling 189...

Tags: Mobility, Software, Web Apps, Productivity

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Steve Rubel: Top five Gmail Hacks for info warriors

Steve Rubel offers up some great ideas on how to hack Gmail, other Google apps, and web services like del.icio.us and Twitter into a serious information collection, aggregation, and organization system. Its a lengthy post and in it Stev documents very clearly how he has mashed up a variety of...

Tags: Blogs, Mastering the Inbox, Productivity, Software, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-02-26

The problem with punditry re: Google Apps vs. Office

The only thing less surprising than Google announcement of Google Apps Premier Edition Wednesday evening and the ensuing white noise it has precipitated was the inevitability of some seriously wrong-headed punditry from the usual suspects. Microsoft-bashing is all sorts of fun – it must be given the number of folks...

Tags: Google, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Software, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-02-24

Google Apps Premier Edition - let the games begin!

The white noise level surrounding Googles announcement last night about their new premium offering – Google Apps Premier Edition – is bound to reach epic levels and last quite a while as everyone wraps their head around what has always seemed to me to be an inevitability on a par...

Tags: Mobility, Microsoft Office, Software, Web Apps, Mac, Productivity

Blog posts 2007-02-22