Rapportive Takes a Stab at SCRM with Gmail Integration
I recently came across a plugin for Gmail called “Rapportive” which I think is a great step in the Social CRM direction. Whenever I send or receive emails from people I always wished that there was some sort of automatic way for me to find out where that person exists in the social web and [...]
For SMBs, Automation is King. Saasu Delivers Some
Small and medium businesses are inherently time poor. As such any tool that automates their processes is a good thing. Those who aren’t involved in business would look at automatic bank feeds (such as those offered by Xero) as a fun toy, but little more than that. This fails to appreciate just how much of [...]
Google Launches Apps Marketplace
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners. The new Marketplace [...]
Google Docs Meets Outlook? – Yes, You Read That Right!
Let’s face it – despite significant hand-waving to the contrary, Microsoft Outlook is the default email client for the vast majority of the enterprise world. No matter how much people love to hate the fact, Outlook is both widely understood and the accepted norm. I’ve talked to a number of people involved in deploying Google [...]
Fun with Google Voice Transcriptions
I love this service, have been using it ever since the early Grand Central days, and I really hope my Google Voice number is the one and only final phone number. Among many other benefits, I no longer have to check voicemail, take note of actions required and return the call – it all comes [...]
SherpaTools, Channel Strategies and Google Apps Management
Cloud Sherpas is a systems integrator and application developer that almost exclusively deals with Google Apps (they’re a high performing Google Apps Partner having moved over 80000 users to Google Apps to date). I spent a bit of time talking to Cloud Sherpas CEO Michael Cohn about life as a reseller in a cloudy world. [...]
Why I Quit Reddit – Actually, Reddit Quit Me
Three years ago I was quite active on Reddit – at least for a while, until I realized just how manipulated it became. I’m not really holding it against reddit, the same happens on Digg and probably on all similar sites – nothing new here, you’ve probably read all this a thousand times, so I [...]
Central Desktop Rolls Out Big Changes to their UI
Central Desktop (more on them here) is today unveiling version 2.0 of its offering that is delivering an entire new user interface for it’s customers. A quick update on the past year for Central Desktop: 44% year-over-year growth in revenue (gross bookings) Employee growth from 20 to 30 employees Hundreds of new Enterprise Edition customers [...]
Google Buzz is Going after FourSquare and Gowalla! (Pics)
Further evidence that Buzz is going into the geo-targeting business. For the first time, I was asked to make a recommendation about a location I was visiting. I’d Buzz’d from here in the past but this was the first time I’d been asked directly. Next step towards killing FourSquare and Gowalla are to add social [...]
ScanCafe: Great Service, Lousy Spam
That’s yours truly on the left in full glory, albeit a bit scared at a photographer’s studio. Why black-and-white, you may ask? Well, there was no color photography back in 19xx (date censured). This formerly black-and-white photo has turned sepia, but that may just be acceptable over 4 decades (oops, I let it slip out), [...]
PleaseRobMe Is the Logical Extension of Our Worst Fears about Location-Based Services
The rise of location-based social media holds a lot of promise and benefit for participants. But a legitimate concern about them is that they make it too easy to track where you are. For some people, that’s more information than they want out there. Well, three guys – Barry Borsboom, Frank Groeneveld, Boy van Amstel [...]
Zoho Invoice 2.0 Unwraps
Zoho has just unveiled the next generation release of its invoice product. The two most notable changes are the inclusion of a nice business-logic dashboard, and the addition of expenses to the offering. Generally the UI has been greatly improved – there is nice use of tabs as opposed to separate boxes for further information [...]
Zoom Media Plus memory card for you Apple Iphone or IPod
Venture Beat is surprisingly covering hardware and wrote a great article about a product due in April from Zoom Media Plus. This is a memory card that you can attach to your Iphone or Ipod using the 30 pin connector that automatically gives you a memory boost to drag and drop music or files from [...]
Google Buzz Is New Black – Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not
Today Google announced Google Buzz. Watch the video: The chart below shows the spectacular adoption failure of Google Wave as a standalone product. This was predicted by a lot of people including myself. As Anil Dash puts it Google Wave does not help solve a “weekend-sized problem”. Besides the obvious complex technical challenges there are three distinct [...]
