T-Shirt Friday #27 – box.net #2
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
box.net – Doing It All In the Box
<disclaimer> – I thought twice about the title above, anyone who infers anything from it needs to spend significantly more time away from a computer </disclaimer> I spent some time yesterday talking to box.net (coverage here) – partly in order to get an update on how they’re fairing, and also to demo some new technology [...]
Box.net – Another Frontal Assault on Microsoft
You’ve got to hand it to box.net (read about ‘em here), fresh from their last campaign which squarely put them head to head with Microsoft (see the evidence here) Box is today announcing that it is launching an application on the salesforce.com app exchange. While this may be a seemingly boring announcements, digging deeper into [...]
T-Shirt Friday #11 – Box.net
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with [...]
All’s Fair in Love, War and Collaboration
I’m not normally a fan of marketing campaigns that seek to gain traction by running down a competitor’s offering, but a campaign by box is kind of fun. Box is a place for sharing content and ideas in an online workspace (CloudAve review here). I caught up with the team from box at the recent [...]
A Place for Everything… Opening the Lid of the Box
I’m a firm believer in serendipity. I get dozens of emails every day from vendors wishing to showcase their wares to me and, unlike other blogs, I respect the effort that has gone into the communication and try to reply every time. Often I don’t end up reviewing the offering, but sometimes something in the [...]
Zuora – Doing some of the Heavy Lifting for SaaS Vendors
At the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco I met with Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora, a provider focussing solely on billing solutions for SaaS vendors. Tien was part of the earliest days of salesforce.com and has seen the massive amounts of work, both initial and ongoing, that billing crates for SaaS vendors. While [...]
Zumodrive Launches, Forgets About Transparency
Krish wrote in December about the importance for startups to do the math early and publish their pricing: In the absence of any word about the future pricing plans, users are hesitant to put their data on these storage startups, usually offering generous amounts of storage space. Why would anyone spend their valuable time uploading [...]
Mindmeister teams up with Box.net
Image via Wikipedia Last week, my favorite mind mapping tool, Mindmeister, announced the release of its API with all the functions of the app exposed through it. If you are wondering how this is significant and why I am writing about last week’s news today, I request patience. I want to use this announcement to [...]
