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My Quick Take on Quicktate (Convenient Transcription Has Finally Arrived)

My Quick Take on Quicktate (Convenient Transcription Has Finally Arrived)

By Zoli Erdos on February 28, 2012

It is rare that I get so excited about a new service I feel compelled to grab a pen mic smartphone and blog about it. But today it just happened: the service I’m going to talk about is Quicktate. For background, let me just come clear and admit that I’m a really lousy typist and […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged dragon naturally speaking, evernote, IBM ViaVoice, nuance, productivity, Quicktate, smartphone, speech recognition, Speech Technology, Transcription (service), voice recognition

Video: Future According To Microsoft

Video: Future According To Microsoft

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 27, 2011

Today Microsoft released a concept video about how they see the future of productivity is going to be. We would like to share the video with our readers. I am not sure what timeline they are talking about but I will expect most of what is shown to be available in 3-5 years. Some of […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged future, microsoft, productivity, video | 3 Responses

Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

By Mark Suster on September 28, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged email, productivity, twitter | 1 Response

Evernote Celebrates Birthday by Joining the Billion Dollar Club (Really?)

Evernote Celebrates Birthday by Joining the Billion Dollar Club (Really?)

By Zoli Erdos on June 27, 2011

Evernote has recently celebrated their third birthday. I also recently had my 21st birthday – it feels good to be able to legally grab a drink finally.  (Hey, if Evernote can lie about their age, so can I…).   Joke apart, I have no idea why a company would pretend to be half as young as […]

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged android, billion dollar club, bubble, collaboration, digital brain, evernote, iOS, iphone, microsoft, mobility, notes, ocr, onenote, pdf, productivity, startups, vc funding | 2 Responses

Can Office 365 Help Microsoft's Future?

Can Office 365 Help Microsoft’s Future?

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 18, 2011

Microsoft today took the wrappers off their Office 365 offering and allowed any business to try out the beta version. The general availability is scheduled for sometime later in the year. Office 365 is Microsoft’s answer to other online Office Suites such as Google Apps and Zoho Office Suite. After dilly dallying for a long […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged collaboration, google, google apps, insights, microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365, MS Office, Office 365, Office Web Apps, office365, Online office suite, productivity, zoho, Zoho Office Suite | 1 Response

Time Allocation > Goal Setting

Time Allocation > Goal Setting

By Chris Yeh on January 22, 2011

Every personal productivity guru preaches the importance of goal-setting. But of you’re like me, your problem isn’t a lack of goals. It’s a lack of time.I often feel like I have too many goals, all clamoring for my time. Setting all those goals becomes…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Goal setting, motivation, process, productivity, timemanagement | 3 Responses

Collaboration Tools Improve Productivity Drastically

Collaboration Tools Improve Productivity Drastically

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 11, 2010

With Enterprise 2.0 just over, I am still talking about social and collaboration with others. I came across an interesting data about the collaboration space and thought I will highlight it here. We all know how the modern collaboration tools increase the productivity in an organization by manyfold. There are many studies that put a […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged collaboration, Collaboration tools, enterprise 2.0, enterprises, forrester report, google, google apps, google docs, google sites, productivity, roi, Social Business

Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!

Gmail, Don’t be a Yahoo!

By Zoli Erdos on November 5, 2010

In the 90’s I used to laugh at friends who all used Yahoo! as their personal email service. I did not understand how anyone could put up with the slow speeds of web-mail, and tried to convince them to install a decent email client, like Outlook, which is what most of them used in their […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged gmail, gmail performance, google, google apps, gsnail, hotmail, outlook, performance, productivity, saas, webmail, yahoo, zoho, zoho mail

iPad’s Climb Up the Disruptive Innovation Cycle

iPad’s Climb Up the Disruptive Innovation Cycle

By Hutch Carpenter on October 5, 2010

Blockbuster’s recent bankruptcy filing was yet another chapter in the Clayton Christensen annals of disruptive innovation. A major brand with convenient locations that got disrupted by a website and the U.S. Mail. Note that we’re seeing the backend of the disruption, when it all seems so clear. How easy is it to see such a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apple, disruption, flickr, geek, innovation, ipad, laptops, productivity, touchdraw | 2 Responses

GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth... in Search of Revenue.

GOutlook. Gmail Back to Earth… in Search of Revenue.

By Zoli Erdos on September 29, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Conversation threading, email, folders, gmail, google, labels, Microsoft Outlook, productivity, search, zoho | 3 Responses

Focus and Serendipity: You Need Both

Focus and Serendipity: You Need Both

By Chris Yeh on August 19, 2010

Technology critics like Nicholas Carr often complain that the Internet is hampering our ability to think. Facebook, and even more so Twitter, exemplify this trend. Back during the ancient days of my youth, when dinosaurs roamed the planet, and shortly after fire was invented, I would communicate with my Stanford friends over the summer by […]

Posted in General | Tagged facebook, focus, productivity, serendipity, socialnetworking, twitter

When Real-time is Too Much – Can You Handle the Firehose?

When Real-time is Too Much – Can You Handle the Firehose?

By Zoli Erdos on July 29, 2010

This morning I’ve been testing TweetDeck’s new super-fast version, based on the new Twitter User Streams API. TweetDeck provides fair warning: This is a VERY experimental version of TweetDeck I saw a few small glitches, but nothing major.  Yet I am in trouble, and it’s not because of the product.  It’s me.  My brain…  The […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged api, attention stream, firehose, information overload, productivity, real-time, river, seesmic, split attention, stream, tweedeck, twitter, user stream api

E2.0, Productivity and Joblessness

E2.0, Productivity and Joblessness

By Guest Authors on July 19, 2010

In the months leading up to last year’s Defrag, I began to blog about what I called “the productivity boom .” By that I meant this broad phase that we’re in, whereby we’ll see productivity in the enterprise make better than normal gains. The boom has a couple of pieces: 1. the advent of cloud […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged boom, collaboration, conferences, defragcon, e20, economy, employment, enterprise 2.0, jobless recovery, productivity | 2 Responses

Gmail Back to Earth – In Search of $, I Suppose…

Gmail Back to Earth – In Search of $, I Suppose…

By Zoli Erdos on June 3, 2010

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 I also must say that for all other Web Office needs I […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged conversation threads, conversation view, email, folders, gmail, google, labels, productivity, zoho | 1 Response

Yammer - What You Need to Know

Yammer – What You Need to Know

By Mark Fidelman on April 29, 2010

My boss walked in and just started laughing. Not a condescending laugh, but a contagious chuckle at my expense. In a company of 5000 people, I had emailed all of them in search of a team or individual that had handled a similar challenge as the one I was facing at a large retailer.  It […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged chat, collaboration, communication, productivity, yammer

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