Your Own (Almost) Ad-Hoc HotSpot
If you’re a frequent traveler, you’re likely better off buying a MiFi or using your late-model cell-phone’s HotSpot capability than paying those outrageous hotel surcharges. If you’re a frequent conference-goer, you’ve already learned they all fail to provide reliable connection(Web 2.0, LeWeb, Gnomedex, Microsoft PDC, Google I/O, just to name a few recent examples), so [...]
Private Cloud Redux – Nimbula Bets on Today’s Reality
A number of cloud commentators seem to get all pent up and in a state of agitated hand-wringing about private cloud. “But it’s not the true cloud” they say, having some sort of dogmatic view over what is, and isn’t cloud. In my mind – so long as it’s scalable and abstracts management away from [...]
Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!
I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustrating. Just look at his quote about Chatter: Salesforce Chatter is the [...]
Samsung Galaxy S vs. Samsung Galaxy S
The title is not a typo, I’m really comparing the Galaxy S to the Galaxy S. Join me. Here’s the version many of us have seen, and I held in my hands (salivating with desire, I might add) at the Google I/O Conference: And here’s the Samsung Captivate, announced by At&T today, and heralded [...]
PBWorks Bets on a World Where CRM Meets the Actual Customers
PBWorks is launching a new version of their product today (see previous coverage of PBWorks here) that is aimed at solving the problem of traditional CRMs being siloed and closed to external customers. In the process they’ve invented yet another three letter acronym – Customer Relationship Collaboration or CRC. While I’m not enamored with the [...]
FacePalm
The future is here according to Steve Jobs. Maybe he should tell Pixar to make “Back to the Future 4″ cause there sure were a lot of “time travellers” who tried video-calling five years ago. Video calling is fun. Once. Then you never use it again. I’m surprised Apple is pushing FaceTime the way they [...]
I Don’t Get the Buzz about Buzz – Do You?
I sent out a Tweet tonight asking whether anybody uses Google’s Buzz product independently of Twitter. I got a pretty luke warm reaction. The overwhelming majority of people who responded gave one of three answers (paraphrased): It was turned on by default by Gmail. It’s annoying. I don’t get it? I use it to communicate [...]
Universal, Actionable Search: Zoho’s Improved Answer to “Where’s My Stuff?”
Search, Don’t Organize – is the Google mantra, meaning we should stop wasting time filing away information in folders, sorting, labeling it for later retrieval, when it’s so much easier to search / find it. That is, if you know where to search. Did you discuss that project in email? Or was it a Document? [...]
Fixing the Battery Problem your Android Smartphone Seems to Have
Image via Wikipedia I shared some of my recent Android experience here, with the two leading phones, Verizon’s HTC Incredible and Sprint’s EVO now it’s time to share a trick (actually two) that makes or breaks your experience with these two mobile powerhouses. Matt Burns @ MobileCrunch loves the EVO but considers the battery a [...]
AbleAdvisory: Finally, A Tech Mashup With Transportation Policy That Doesn't Suck!
Stewart Mader blogs about 4-id creative network, a Barcelona-based transportation design firm. They’ve created a system that helps you figure out where the best place to board a subway is in order to find a seat. He picked it up from 2nd Avenue Sagas a blog devoted to, yes you guessed it, the NYC Subway [...]
Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”
This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. I wanted to look at what [...]
Does Sprint Limit Using Google Voice?
(See update @ the bottom)Well, this did not take long. I’ve just speculated that Google & Sprint wanted testers before the commercial rollout of the Android-driven HTC EVO on June 4th – a few hours later I see that theory proven. I ran into trouble setting up Google Voice, and called the special number given [...]
5 Powerful Project Management Features You can only do on UnaWave (Google Wave)
Google Wave has been lambasted for its lack of a killer app or specific business use case. A new application built on Google Wave seeks to become that first killer app. UnaWave is a new work management solution built on Google Wave. They call it work management since it’s been developed to work the way [...]
All you need to know about Chatter –Salesforce.com’s Collaboration Cloud
I’ve had two experiences with Marc Benioff. One positive and one less so. The positive experience dealt with Marc taking a direct role in helping a friend of mine find a job within Salesforce. Marc didn’t have to but he did it because he cares about hiring great people. The second experience was in the [...]
Contextual Gadgets – ManyMoon Unlocks Google’s Value
Since the Google Apps marketplace launched, I’ve been a little disappointed at the somewhat limited integrations that have been created by apps on the marketplace. While I’d love Google to have an even richer common set of data, there was little use made of the data that is currently provided. All that is changing with [...]
