Firefox to Facilitate SaaS Offline?
February 12, 2007
We’ve talked about how customer demand for offline support for on-demand applications continues to grow. Part of this years show was to watch who joined the few existing products already with offline support. It appears Firefox may help some companies get to market with Offline Support acording to an article over at Read/Write Web.
I’m not sure to what extent Firefox would be able to support individual application features. Anyone have any ideas on how this might work?
And while that’s interesting, I think the Google / Firefox link is just as interesting, don’t you?
Foldera Information Coming Soon!
February 12, 2007
You should expect to see some posts on the Foldera blog starting this week or next, that provide some glimpses of the product and maybe some insight into the release plan. I know this is of interest to many of our readers and encouraging for investors.
I’m still skeptical about the “Beta” as I remain unable to locate a Beta user who is not a Foldera employee. Active Beta users would be a great measure of progress toward an actual product release.
If a tree falls in the forest….
February 6, 2007
I think we’ve had some interesting posts in the last couple weeks and our visits remain consistent but everyone’s been very quiet on the comments. It’s Q1 and everyone’s probably very busy. Here’s a quick list of the most interesting in case you haven’t had time to read through. Click through to a couple and let us know what you think.
Why ‘Free-mail’ has a bad reputation
“…And finally, here’s the one I don’t understand:
“But the real sticking point may be whether you want to trust your most important messages to any free service at all.”
I don’t know what this means. Why wouldn’t I want to trust my messages to a free service? What is the opposite of a ‘free service’ and why should I ‘trust’ them?”
Online Office Suite Review and Comparison
“…For those of you who are watching the online office suite marketplace, it also notes that Google and ThinkFree may be in negotiations. Do you think it will happen?”
Microsoft and Online Office Update
“…It’s a nice SWOT analysis of Microsoft’s strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It ends with a list of options for Microsoft which I’ve placed into this handy Zoho poll. What do you think?”
“…The model that BlueTie is building is beyond ‘Free-mium’, it’s the monetization model of the future. How long before Goolge replaces those ads in Gmail with integrated services like this?”
BlueTie Product To Watch by Small Business Technology
February 6, 2007
BlueTie was chosen as a Product To Watch by Small Business Technology Magazine.
Monetizing Web 2.0 - Solved
February 5, 2007
This is a very good interview with David Koretz from BlueTie about Monetizing Web 2.0. The model that BlueTie is building is beyond ‘Free-mium’, it’s the monetization model of the future. How long before Goolge replaces those ads in Gmail with integrated services like this?
Microsoft and Online Office Update
February 1, 2007
We’ve had prior posts on the topic of Microsoft and Online Office, here, here, here and here. There’s a great current recap of the Microsoft and Online Office conundrum over at Read/Write Web. It’s a nice SWOT analysis of Microsoft’s strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It ends with a list of options for Microsoft which I’ve placed into this handy Zoho poll. What do you think?
(I couldn’t get the poll to show up in line here on WordPress, if you have any tips on that please let me know.)
New Zoho Notebook Launched
February 1, 2007
In case you haven’t already heard, Zoho launched the new Notebook. I’m impressed with the feature set, surprised really at the quantity and depth of the feature set.
I still believe that Zoho is missing out on an opportunity to gain SMB customers by:
- Package thier products in a way that could make it a compelling office suite. I know there is Zoho Virtual Office but the elements of the Office are not readily understood, do I get Notebook with that? Can I add on Notebook? Do I get Project?
- Provide examples of how each product can help growing businesses. How can a Wiki help my business and how is that different than Notebook?
- Providing a downloadable toolbar by which to access all the Zoho products.
Overall the product set is impressive, the company is responsive to customer feedback and they deliver products at a pace I’ve never seen before.
Foldera Update
January 31, 2007
Just for the record, it wasn’t an accusation, it was a question; this is in response to a comment posted about my Foldera ‘Vaporware’ post. The guys at Foldera assure us they are working on it, so we’ll wait and see. In the meantime:
1) The stockholders shouldn’t be getting their updates on company progress from my blog - although I appreciate the traffic - they should be getting it from the Foldera Blog but there hasn’t been a new post there in almost two months.
2) I’m still waiting for my beta account.
WebEx has a email service available. The press release is here but I think requires a couple clarfications:
“WebEx WebOffice with email requires no additional hardware or software and is the only on-demand collaboration solution built for the way small businesses work.”
The “…only on-demand collaboration solution…”? What rock are these people living under. How about ‘WebEx has finally joined the rest of the on-demand collaboration solutions by offering email…’. Sure, sure it begs the question what does Collaboration mean but we’re not going to solve that one today, regardless of how you define it even now, there are at least two providers you can put in almost any [reasonable] definition of Collaboration.
The pricing states:
“WebEx Mail is $5.95 per mailbox, per month with discounts available for large deployments. To celebrate today’s general availability announcement, WebEx is offering a special introductory price of just $3.95 a month for a limited time. “
Which is true only after you have purchased the standard WebOffice at a minimum of $59.95 per month, so it’s really $59.95 per month PLUS $3.95 per person for email. Gee for my 5 user workgroup just a 33% increase in monthly fees to add email….
Will the real Zimbra user count please stand up?
January 30, 2007
I’m with Pat on this one. 2MM new users in 3 months? That’s 22M new users a day, including weekends. Please….
