Box.Net Adds Offline Support But How Many Really Use It?
Box.Net, the cloud storage provider turned cloud content management platform for businesses, yesterday announced a new feature for their mobile apps which will let users store documents offline. In a blog post today, Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net, wrote about the new feature. Today’s workplace has exploded beyond the office walls and into coffee shops, […]
Google Gears Gone
Google Gears, a technology developed by Google to offer offline functionality for browser based SaaS applications, is officially dead. Google today announced that they are not developing Google Gears any more because they plan to push this offline functionality into HTML 5. If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on […]
Presentations… And Re-Inventing the Wheel
I’m not a huge user of presentation software. I’m blessed to not work for a corporate and hence don’t have to justify my existence with a 40 slide deck resplendent in 12 point text and bad transitions. Yup – it’s fair to say I’m not a huge fan of presentations…. A little while ago I […]
Google Reader Gets Improvements, but Offline is Ignored Again
Whenever a Google product gets updates, tiny or big, there’s a chorus of praise … which is OK, after all everyone needs link-bait, but what about some critical thinking? Today’s big new is additional social sharing and “mark as read” controls – they are all useful, you can read the details from any of the […]
Firefox 3.5 Dowload Day Progress – Google Gears, Mozilla Prism Missed Launch
Download Day for Firefox 3.5 is decidedly more understated than 3.0 was. A lot less hype prior to the release, no spectacular outages, and a respectable 1M+ dowloads so far, which is nice, but way behind Firefox 3.0’s Guiness Record. Blog visitor stats are very biased metrics, they tend to lean towards the “new and […]
Google Gears – Lifeline of SaaS
Image via CrunchBase After Google made an announcement about the offline capability of Gmail using Google Gears, Raju Vegesna, Zoho Evangelist, wrote a post listing various applications that make use of Google Gears to offer offline capability. The list shows some surprising (?) names, and just in case it’s not complete, feel free to add […]
Google Reader Offline: Smart Yet Dumb
2008 REDUX Another piece in the 2008 Redux series, originally referring back to a 2007 post, and what’s mind-boggling is the issue is still not fixed. Yes, it’s great to be able to download my feed items and read it on the plane without Internet connection (since I am not flying Virgin). I even "starred" […]
Google Releases New Zoho Service: Mail with Offline Support
Yes, you read it right: the first announcement of Zoho Mail’s general availability, with Google Gears-based offline support did not come from Zoho, but from the Google Gears team, which released this video discussing Zoho’s use of Google Gears, synchronization, the Marketplace and a lot more a bit prematurely: Somewhat used to it (see TechCrunch […]
S+S/SaaS – So What's in a Name?
Steve Clayton from Microsoft is a great guy with one of the blogs I religiously follow (and I follow a lot of RSS feeds). I actually quite like his somewhat defensive stance – it must be hard working for a company that, from appearances, is reviled by all the cool kids in town, and to […]
