Slowing Down for the Holiday

Well we’ve reached the bottom of the PR trough with the holiday coming next week. The blogs are slowing down, the only press releases that come out will be the ones they don’t want you to read. Alternatively, who will want to make the first splash of the new year? Who will have the first press release of the year? Zimbra, Zoho, Foldera? I’ll provide what link bait I can for whomever’s first. Just don’t tell Google, otherwise I might have to add a ‘NoFollow’ tag….

 Here are a few other things I’d like to see in 07:

A comprehensive chart of who offers what in terms of applications for business; email, ’word’ documents, spreadsheets, powerpoint, project planning, etc. Any volunteers? You should be able to get a lot of links for something thorough. 

Will storage size stop being used as a product differentiator in 2007? Can someone please do a survey for us and let us know if customers really see this as a key factor?

How many new products will Zoho launch in 07? Raju or Arvind, is there a Zoho Mail coming?

Do those ratios in Nichebot really work? (Keyword campaign in progress.)

Foldera Launch….. Still skeptical Oliver & Dave…. you can send my beta login to catchyaintit [at] yahoo.com  

Who will have a mash up for Goowy first?

Which conference, related to our topics here, is THE one to go to for 2007?

Will the expanded features of products like Zimbra, HyperOffice and others begin to make a serious dent into the Hosted Exchange market? 

What do you think will be interesting with everyone in 2007, basecamp, bluetie, everyone.net, foldera, fusemail, hyperoffice, intermedia.net, load.com, mailsnare, mailstreet, MI8, myoffice.net, norada, runbox, scalix, sherweb, simplicato, solodox, swishmail, thinkfree, usa.net, webmail.us, zimbra, zoho…

What else needs to be covered?

Our visitor stats are growing pretty strong so please help tell your story, provide some thought leadership and expand the dialogue to keep people coming back. We can all benefit from more content, more links and more exposure.

Radicati Reports

The Radicati Group seems to have some interesting reports for email and hosted exchange companies. I’d be curious to hear from any of you that have gotten any of thier reports and if you find the information accurate/valuable? This recent report includes an evaluation with ASP-One, Everyone.net, Intermedia.net, Mailstreet, Mi8, USA.NET, Webmail.us and others. It’s certainly an incomplete report as I would have expected it to include BlueTie, Load and Zimbra and possible a couple of others.

Everyone.Net Adds Calendars

“Everyone.net (www.everyone.net), a leading provider of hosted email services, today announced the general availability of a web-based calendar for all of its email service packages. Available now, the calendar is included free of charge with all Everyone.net services from business email to private-label email, enabling users to work more effectively and efficiently.”

Calendar is already offered by some competitors, specifically BlueTie which also includes Task Manager.

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Are the old portal pages on the way out?

Do you think that the offerings from NetVibes, PageFlakes and Goowy will replace what is now the ‘traditional’ portal page like you My Yahoo! page or your Google personalized page? And which one is your favorite? Personally I like the ability to place elements wherever I want on the page as with Goowy.  I’m dissapointed though that of the three, none of the RSS feed widgets allow a bookmarking or starring like the Google reader. What about Yahoo! Widgets? Are they doomed because they are tied to the desktop where as these others are not? And all of our players, BlueTie, Zimbra, Hyperoffice, Zoho, Everyone.Net, everyone should have a widget for all of these, your task list, incoming email, etc.