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- Davids versus Goliath: a comparison of wikis versus Blackboard CMS
- [Guest Blogger Stewart Mader, Atlassian - makers of Confluence and Jira]In almost a decade in higher ed on both sides of the classroom (and in the middle, as a consultant helping other teachers integrate technology into their courses), Ive seen an interesting shift in whats available for teachers, and...
- Tags: Education, CMS, Windows, Wiki, Mac, Web as Platform, Web Office, Business, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- R.I.A.? S.O.A.? T.L.A.!
- In yesterdays interview, I was asked about Web 2.0 apps versus desktop applications. I wanted to talk about that a little more. Back in 1994, I cobbled together a little demo that was shown at a session at the Seybold Conference on Publishing. It...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Business, Media, Tech, Design, Web Office, Internet Companies, Web Browsers, Enterprise, Mashups, Two-Way Web, Apple, Sun, Adobe, Web browser
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Web Office Widgets
- Now that office software is becoming a big part of the Web landscape, were starting to see widgets (i.e. mini web apps) appear that have office functionality. The personalized start page Pageflakes has just introduced a couple of new office "flakes", which is their term for widgets. The new ones...
- Tags: RSS, Pageflakes, Intranet, Web, start page, dashboard
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Web office is about collaboration
- Web office is about collaborationAmen brother!Phil - you nailed it. It's not about replicating what's already been done on the desktop. The game will be won by redefining the rules to take advantage of a different environment. Even LAN thinking applied to the public network falls short in attempting to...
- Tags: Channel management, Groupware, Desktops, collaboration, Web, desktop, Web Office, desktop app, PC, web app, Microsoft SharePoint
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
- Web office is about collaboration
- Have you ever noticed that when you learn a new word, you seem to hear it pop up in conversation over and over again for the next little while. The word's probably appearing with the same frequency it always has--you're just noticing now. That how I feel about Web office...
- Tags: tool, Web Office
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Ray Ozzie's view of the Web Office
- Ray Ozzie's view of the Web OfficeWeb Office has significant counts against it[i]But, for smaller businesses and individuals a free or modestly priced suite of browser-based software that can do most of what is required with documents, presentations, spreadsheets, messaging and collaboration is a compelling proposition. And, the features set,...
- Tags: Channel management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Ray Ozzie, Web, Web Office, Microsoft ASP
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Web Office will be much different than Microsoft Office
- Web Office will be much different than Microsoft OfficeSecurity?You talk about issues of security being "laid to rest" and then you talk about mashups, which to me are the anthesis of secure. So far, the bad guys seem to be winning the malware wars without breaking a sweat; do...
- Tags: Channel management, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Desktop App, Web Office, Web, Microsoft Office, desktop
- Discussion threads 2006-09-18
- Google Office: a close-up look
- In the accompanying Image Gallery, I've gone through 7 products that may become part of a future Google Web Office. Right now, Google doesn't have a full web-based office suite on the market - but this year they've gradually been compiling Web Office parts. For example if you click on...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- How Salesforce has evolved (over 20 versions) to be a Web Office platform
- This is Part 2 of my interview with Kendall Collins, VP of marketing at Salesforce.com. In Part 1, we spoke about version 20 of salesforce.com (called Summer '06) and discussed how AppExchange overlaps with the Web Office. In the second and final part of the interview, we explore how salesforce...
- Tags: Web Office, Web, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-01
- Interview with salesforce.com pt 1: AppExchange and the Web Office
- Update: Part two of the interview is now available, entitled How Salesforce has evolved (over 20 versions) to be a Web Office platform. This week I spoke to Kendall Collins, vice president of marketing at Salesforce.com, about the latest "Summer '06" release of salesforce.com. But the most interesting topic of...
- Tags: Kendall, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Salesforce.com Inc., Web
- Blog posts 2006-07-19
- Who needs a Web Office when you have... an inflatable office
- Who needs a Web Office when you have... an inflatable officeLOL Are you serious?"Well I can't think of many more innovative and practical things than an inflatable office."Come on...this is about the most stupid thing ever made. If you are that desperate for privacy that you need to carry...
- Tags: Channel management, inflatable office, Web Office, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-05-29
- Who needs a Web Office when you have... an inflatable office
- While flexing my typing fingers and getting ready to respond to Dan Farber's post about Web Office (in which he interviewed Dave Girouard, VP and GM of Google Enterprise), I came across an alternative 'office' setup. As described by CNET's Mike Yamamoto: "Even the most rugged road...
- Tags: Web Office, Dave Girouard
- Blog posts 2006-05-28
- Web 2.0 reality check: Incompatibility
- In my previous post about ThinkFree, a Web Office product, a couple of ZDNet commenters pointed out that one problem with ThinkFree is that it requires a Java download. Wrote mrichardson under the heading Strike one...: "Thought that I would explore the "brave new world" of web...
- Tags: Web
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
- Web Office takes more resources than Vista
- David Berlind wrote this blog "Corporate PCs: Underpowered for Vista. Overpowered for Writely?" and asked if the computing world should be going back to lower powered computers to run Web-based Applications like Google's Writely instead of ramping up their hardware to run Windows Vista. But in my opinion, the...
- Tags: RAM
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Is Google or Microsoft best positioned for Web Office?
- Is Google or Microsoft best positioned for Web Office?Gmail, Outlook, and Web OfficeGmail is not on par with Outlook. That nifty technology that reads your emails and give you ads based on their contents might more advanced, but GMail is not competitive with Outlook. It's not competive with...
- Tags: Groupware, E-mail providers, Channel management, Microsoft Office, Chandler, Web browser, Microsoft Outlook, Google Gmail, Web, Web Office, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-18
- Is Google or Microsoft best positioned for Web Office?
- My previous post in which I claimed that Google Calendar was further evidence of a future online office suite from Google, provoked some interesting reactions. Fellow ZDNet blogger Marc Orchant thinks I've been drinking some koolaid -- but if I have it's my own brand of koolaid, because I don't...
- Tags: Web
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
- Learning from past Web Office mistakes
- One of the outcomes of my recent round-up of Web Office products was a plethora of email from vendors who are building them. Thanks for all those emails and I apologize if I haven't replied (there were a lot!), but I will look at all the products. Dave...
- Tags: Web, Web Office, Anil
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- The real impact of Web Office
- Steve Rubel pointed to an white paper by Rod Boothby of Innovation Creators that discusses the near-future impact web office technologies will have on the future way we work. It's a great read and one I encourage you to investigate. What I appreciate most about the perspective Boothby comes at...
- Tags: tool, Rod Boothby, Web
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Why you need a Web Office
- When my post about Web Office Suite products got Slashdotted, one of the main issues amongst Slashdot commenters was: why do we even need a Web Office? This comment by Eightyford put it best:"What are the advantages of having an online Office Suite? I'd say that the disadvantages include: security...
- Tags: Web Office, Web
- Blog posts 2006-02-24
- In Focus: Web Office
- See ZDNet's focus on Web Office for the latest news and perspectives from around the blogosphere.
- Tags: Web Office
- Blog posts 2006-02-24
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