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Foxmarks, Xmarks, LastPass, Xpass, LastX, X%^&% Quick Rant

Foxmarks, Xmarks, LastPass, Xpass, LastX, X%^&% Quick Rant

By Zoli Erdos on December 2, 2010

Warning: I think I’m becoming a curmudgeon – except that title has until now been reserved for somebody else .   But I still have doubts about the recent transaction: LastPass acquired Xmarks. I really liked Xmarks – when it was Foxmarks.  A simple bookmark synchronization service that would keep your Firefox up-to-date no matter where […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Security | Tagged acquistion, bookmark sync, bookmarks, facebook, firefox, foxmarks, lastpass, m&a, password sync, privacy, Security, sharing, social, synchronization, wikileaks, xmarks | 1 Response

Dropbox – Envisaging a Future Well Beyond Files

Dropbox – Envisaging a Future Well Beyond Files

By Ben Kepes on February 9, 2010

I’ve been talking a lot recently to cloud storage, cloud synchronization and cloud backup vendors (all variations on a theme but they all have a different emphasis to what they do). Recently I had a couple of opportunities to talk with Dropbox, first with founder Drew Houston, and later with recently appointed SVP Marketing and […]

Posted in Marketing, Product reviews, Strategy | Tagged backup, dropbox, sugarsync, synchronization, syncplicity | 3 Responses

How to Use Picasa on Multiple Computers – The Updated Definitive Guide Part 2: the Solution

How to Use Picasa on Multiple Computers – The Updated Definitive Guide Part 2: the Solution

By Zoli Erdos on January 30, 2010

This is going to be a fairly detailed how-to guide, so if you are not using Google’s Picasa program, you’ll probably find it boring – and if you are, I strongly suggest you start at Part 1, where we define the problem (Picasa being hopelessly single-user, single-PC focused), why earlier solutions, whether sync-based or network […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged google, home network, multi-user, networked picasa, photo management, photo sharing, photography, picasa, picasaweb, synchronization, vista, windows 7, windows hacks | 32 Responses

How to Use Picasa on Multiple Computers – The Updated Definitive Guide Part 1: the Problem

How to Use Picasa on Multiple Computers – The Updated Definitive Guide Part 1: the Problem

By Zoli Erdos on January 25, 2010

My 4-year old how-to guide, Picasa Photo Sync on Multiple Computers has attracted tens of thousands of viewers, and is still quite popular.  In fact too popular, thanks to Google.  I can’t believe people actually read it today and try to follow the advice therein… it’s and OLD post with outdated information.  I’ve long struggled […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged home network, multi-user, photo management, photo sharing, photography, picasa, picasaweb, synchronization, windows 7, windows hacks | 7 Responses

The Challenges of Allowing Offline Usage in a SaaS Based System

The Challenges of Allowing Offline Usage in a SaaS Based System

By Guest Authors on August 17, 2009

So I was reading an article recently about the latest Google Reader and how it still can’t be used offline with full features. In particular the article focuses on its inability to allow you to read articles offline  and then flag those articles as already read, such that when you get back online Google Reader […]

Posted in Design | Tagged contact management, google reader, michaud, offline, saas, software design, synchronization | 2 Responses

Gmail Outage and the Benefit of Synchronization (or Backup)

Gmail Outage and the Benefit of Synchronization (or Backup)

By Zoli Erdos on April 16, 2009

Gmail appears to have another outage today. While reports of the outage surfaced on Twitter hours ago, Google’s status board indicated all was OK, until about 15 minutes ago, when this update appeared: 2:16pm:  We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access […]

Posted in Security | Tagged backup, gmail, gmail down, gmail outage, google, google apps, outage, synchronization, zoho mail | 2 Responses

Syncplicity Focus Groups: the Bumpy Road from Free to Paid

Syncplicity Focus Groups: the Bumpy Road from Free to Paid

By Zoli Erdos on February 26, 2009

SaaS providers increasingly find that customer love is not enough to make a living nowadays, but the road from free to premium is bumpy. The search for revenue leads to introducing premium services, starting to charge for previously free ones or shifting focus from the consumer to the business market.  The transition is anything but […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged customer focus, fremium, monetization, online backup, startup business models, synchronization, syncplicity

Ma.Gnolia Data Loss, What Have We Learned?

Ma.Gnolia Data Loss, What Have We Learned?

By Zoli Erdos on January 30, 2009

Ma.gnolia , a social bookmarking service is down, lost all their user data and they don’t know if / when they can recover.  This is as bad as it can get for any Web 2.0 service (and more importantly for users), and the backlash against Cloud services has already started.   Krish will do has a

Posted in Security | Tagged backup, data backup, flickr, gmail, google, live mesh, mozy, online backup, online sync, synchronization, syncplicity, web services, zoho | 21 Responses

Zumodrive Launches, Forgets About Transparency

Zumodrive Launches, Forgets About Transparency

By Zoli Erdos on January 17, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Marketing, Product reviews | Tagged box.net, dropbox, live mesh, online storage, pricing, startups, storage, sync, synchronization, syncplicity, transparency, zumodrive | 3 Responses

The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC

The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC

By Zoli Erdos on December 31, 2008

2008 REDUX Another piece in the 2008 Redux series, originally posted in March 2008. The computing landscape has somewhat changed with the appearance of netbooks, but I am still waiting for the cellphone-aware PC-less PC. Mike Egan @ Computerworld makes the case for PC’s to be smarter, with improved awareness of cell-phones, which means of […]

Posted in General | Tagged cellular, cloud computing, digital personality, iphone, location-awareness, mobile awareness, mobility, portability, portable personality, saas, server farm, servers, situational computer, situational device, situational hardware, synchronization, web applications, zoho | 3 Responses

Trust the Cloud, but Have a Backup Plan. Google Lockouts are not Fun.

Trust the Cloud, but Have a Backup Plan. Google Lockouts are not Fun.

By Zoli Erdos on October 20, 2008

Just about every few month we get a high-profile case of someone getting shut out of their Gmail and other Google services.  Google is notorious for freezing accounts without a warning, often in the users defence, i.e. when they detect probability of hacking. When you’re Loren Baker, Editor of Search Engine Journal and blog about […]

Posted in Security | Tagged backup, Branding, customer service, domains, gmail, google, Small business, smb, synchronization, syncplicity, zoho mail | 3 Responses

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