Tag Archives: gmail

03/02/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

YouSendIt and Yahoo Mail–Offloading Attachments

By Ben Kepes

I remember a time when webmail had limits of only a few megabytes for email boxes – those were back in the days when email traffic was a few a week and attachments were something you had to your high school classmates. Roll on to today and my Gmail inbox

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18/01/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Microsoft and the Lack of Startup Cred

By Ben Kepes

The recent domain profiling of Y Combinator startups was interesting reading from a “how far ahead of corporate IT are startups when it comes to cloud services?” question, but also interesting was a look at Microsoft‘s performance among the companies. Startups are cool right? And large technology companies want to

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12/10/2010 Posted in Business 6 Comments

NetSuite Announces SuiteSocial, Takes on Salesforce Chatter.

By Ben Kepes

The big news Over the past year I’ve been on something of a crusade to get NetSuite thinking about and acting upon social inside the enterprise. Every time I run into CEO and President Zach Nelson, my standard question is an enquiry into a response to Salesforce’s Chatter product. At

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12/08/2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 1 Comment

On Gmail and downtime

By Ben Kepes

I’m not going to say too much about the Gmail outage that occurred this morning – it’s been the talk of the blogosphere, twitterverse and Group mailing lists. It’s pretty much been said before. I will remind those who use the outage to point out that SaaS is inherently flawed

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01/08/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy 13 Comments

Gmail and small business

By Ben Kepes

Bernard posted saying that he’s made the move to cut out his use of Microsoft Outlook, now solely relying on Gmail for all his email requirements. He states the benefits of better (for him) search, the simplicity of having everything in one app, better spam protection and the ability to

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09/07/2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT 1 Comment

The prognosis for email…

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW, Alex Iskold posted about email, asking whether or not it is in danger. Alex pointed out that there are some threats to email, in the form of Twitter, Instant messaging and SMS. Alex came up with a diagram to illustrate the areas that email has traditionally been

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25/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Gmail moves into the big time…

By Ben Kepes

Much discussion has centred around on-demand apps being primarily for smaller businesses. Many enterprise folks like to remind that Microsoft is still premier in their organisation. Interesting to read about the largest implementation of Gmail in the world. Google has secured the deal to provide for 1.5 million students at

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13/06/2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

LinkedIn replacing email? No time soon…

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW, Bernard posted suggesting that LinkedIn is both a Gmail and an Outlook killer. His rationale seems to come from the fact that LinkedIn mail is always up to date (as member update their own records it doesn’t rely on first a contact remembering to notify a change

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23/04/2008 Posted in Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 2 Comments

Do you archive?

By Ben Kepes

Vaibhav posted this saying that it was a mistake for Gmail users to automatically hit the archive button instead of delete. (For those who don’t use Gmail, Google encourages users to archive old mail rather than delete it – so it’s still there for eternity should it be needed –

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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