The Fastest Way to Lose Your $3 Million a Year Job? Have a Zero email Policy
Every time I see an anti-email blog post or even more amusingly a company that issues a zero email policy, I’m always reminded of one of my favorite Einstein lines, “”Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” You have to admire CEO Thierry Breton of [...]
Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity
Email. Ah, email. That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. I’ve taken to saying, “Email is our personal to-do list that anybody adds to – whether they know us or not.” I was lamenting it tonight when I saw the most brilliant response Tweet by Andrew Hyde “inbox = tetris getting zero [...]
How To Fix The Inbox
I’m notorious for the amount of email I receive and the difficulties I have keeping up with it. My best estimate is that I receive about 200-300 emails each day. On those few blessed occasions when I do get my inbox into single or double digits, I feel both enormously productive and focused. (Alas, the [...]
Learn From the Gmail Fiasco: You Need Redundant Copies of Your Email–Don’t Worry, It’s Painless :-)
A few hundred thousand (numbers range from 150k to 500K) Gmail and Google Apps users had the scary experience of losing ALL their email content yesterday. Their account was accidentally “reset”. Google acknowledged the error, and issued a statement that they are working on restoring “lost” content. Let’s stop and think here a minute. Is [...]
Google’s Disruption Of Enterprise Email Market And Their “Social Challenges”
Ever since Gmail captured the imagination of consumers, Google has been trying to push Google Apps to enterprise customers. In spite of some news about problems in their implementation for big customers, it has been gaining traction steadily. The biggest attraction towards Google Apps Email over other systems is the cost. Even though other players [...]
Can We Take Availability Off Cloud Concerns List?
One of the concerns cited by people who believe in traditional ways of computing is the issue of service availability in the public clouds. For reasons known only to psychiatrists, they associate availability to the presence of the software inside their organizational boundaries. If we talk to enterprise users who use email system hosted on-premise, [...]
Google Is Trying To Get Exchange Users Through Backdoor
One of the interesting acquisitions by Google, in my point of view, was their 2007 acquisition of Postini. In fact, it was the main driving force behind somewhat successful push of Google Apps into the enterprises. Today, Google is wearing the Postini mask again as it attempts a long term strategy to get more exchange [...]
Phone Cameras + Social Are Expanding the Historical Record
“There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.” In a critique of the rise of Instagram (current photo sharing app du jour), Laurie Voss argues that the rise of cheap, low fidelity cameras on phones is undermining the data contained in them. And it’s not just [...]
Email’s New Freight – Posting to Social Sites
This post is a test of something I have not yet tried with wordpress.com: posting by email. It’s meant to be mostly an experiment. But it’s also a realization that in a mobile world, email has a new found importance. Delivering social content payloads. In a separate effort, I’m trying to get things done (GTD!) [...]
GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth… in Search of Revenue.
I’ve been long-time Gmail fan, having used it from the very early days, for almost 5 years now. The key reasons why I switched and have stuck with the service ever since were the productivity boosters, first of all: Threaded conversations Labels Search Google did to email what all new product teams should: throw away [...]
Should I sell out my friends privacy to win an Ipad?
What is not part of the argument online is that I have almost daily offers to sell out my friends contact information for some cool stuff like the chance to win an Ipad, or other such shiny new toy.
Increased Security for Google Apps But They Have Another Problem at Hand
Google today announced a two step verification process during Google Apps login which will help increase the security of organization’s data. Two-step verification is easy to set up, manage and use. When enabled by an administrator, it requires two means of identification to sign in to a Google Apps account, something you know: a password, [...]
VMware Has Plans For Zimbra
Ever since VMware acquired Zimbra from Yahoo in January of 2010, there were speculations about VMware plans up the stack. VMware hasn’t talked about their strategy at the application layer of the cloud stack yet but they are taking steps to integrate Zimbra with their platform and push it aggressively on the enterprise market. Yesterday, VMware [...]
Linking Google Apps With Gmail – Initial Observations
For sometime now, we have been hearing about Google’s plans to let users link their Google Apps account with Gmail so that it can be used with other Google services that are not part of Google Apps. I know many people, including Cloud Ave’s own Zoli Erdos, who wanted such a tie-up. Luckily, Google invited [...]
This Reminds Me of My Old Boss (Dilbert)
At least the ‘write down part’. His process for dealing with email was: Have Assistant print and fax email to whichever hotel he was staying in Make handwritten notations on fax, ask hotel to fax it back to his Assistant Assistant would then type it as email using his account The whole process would take [...]
