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It’s about collaboration, not service transition

May 15, 2008

Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, SaaS, Strategy

Zoho

I posted last night about Zoho allowing logins with Yahoo and Google user details. This morning my feedreader has been inundated with posts about this very topic. Most see the wood for the trees and identify this as a…

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Zoho turns up the heat…

May 14, 2008

Collaboration, Design, SaaS

google, Zoho

News today that Zoho is now allowing logins using either a Google or a Yahoo account login. The login utilises Goggle/Yahoo’s authentication API. This seemingly small change is pretty massive in that it allows a whole new level of…

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Worklight secures more VC funding

May 2, 2008

Collaboration, IT, SaaS, Web x.0

enterprise 2.0, worklight

Stoked to read this morning that Worklight (DIversity coverage here) has secured USD12mill series B funding. Worklight creates Enterprise 2.0 offerings that bring the look and feel of popular online consumer interfaces to business users. Worklight CEO Shahar Kaminitz says;…

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Twitter’s ability to lubricate communication…

May 1, 2008

Collaboration, Efficiency, IT, Web x.0

twitter

A buddy and I have an ongoing argument about Twitter – he sees it as a waste of time, akin to passing notes back at school. I on the other hand see it being a valuable communication facilitator –…

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Dreaming of a mesh world

April 24, 2008

Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS

backup, livemesh, mesh, sugarsynch, synch

The blogosphere is abuzz with discussion about Microsoft’s LiveMesh announcement yesterday. Essentially, and initially, LiveMesh is a platform that allows synchronization (currently PC only) between machines and the clouds by collecting various feeds into one locale. Given the timing…

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More on SFDC/Google apps

April 15, 2008

Collaboration, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0

google, Microsoft, salesforce

I’ve just been alerted to the following video; It looks compelling, and Phil Wainewright goes hyperbolic to the extreme when he says; When it takes just a mouse click to open Gmail and have the message saved with the…

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Digital Strategy…

April 14, 2008

Collaboration, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

Calling all Kiwis (or those with an interest in New Zealand in the digital world). Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe is calling feedback on the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 which was released for public comment today. What…

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New version of groupSwim released

April 12, 2008

Collaboration, Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0

groupswim

I got an email from the GroupSwim guys this morning (I’ve reviewed their offering previously) proud to tell me that they’ve released the latest version of their software. Top of the list of improvements is file collaboration. Using GroupSwim,…

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Onlne document collaboration presentation…

April 7, 2008

Collaboration, IT, SaaS, Web x.0

A plug here for Diversity contributor Mike Riversdale who is running a 75 minute workshop around the use of online document collaboration (using Google Docs as the example) at the conference, “Engage Your Community“: Using Blogs, YouTube and other…

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Zoho filling in the SME accounting space?

March 30, 2008

Collaboration, Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0

accounting, crm, SaaS, Zoho

A few weeks ago I posted and said; Next move I’m picking [for Zoho] is a filling out of the space between the current small business offerings and People, the first larger business offering. That remark was particularly made…

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