Salesforce.com: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Is Salesforce.com’s glass for SMBs half full (of lemonade) or half empty? I borrowed the lemonade metaphor from Venturebeat’s post announcing Salesforce.com’s new Contact Manager offering for (very) small businesses. On second thought we should use orange juice as a metaphor – as in disappearing orange juice, by Tropicana which offers less juice in a […]
The Importance of Psychological Currency: Connecting Mind To Enterprise (Part 2)
Thinking about how people work in today’s enterprise reminds me of the movie Being John Malkovich. You know what I’m talking about – it’s like the low-ceiling offices on floor 7½ of the Mertin Flemmer building in New York City. The ceiling is all of 4 1/2 feet high, and they have to emergency-stop the […]
Another Discussion on Transparency
Over the weekend all hell broke loose when uber blogger Michael Arrington made some comments to Leo Laporte about the need for full disclosure (details here and video below). Firstly I have to say that I’m disgusted beyond words by the reaction from across the blogosphere to this incident – the fact that Arrington has […]
Six Months Reflection, and a Treatise on Transparency
If you’ve ever read our About pages, you probably know that Zoho is our exclusive sponsor. This is a rather unique arrangement, where all Zoho gets in return for its support is the ability to advance the cause of Cloud Computing while leaving all editorial decisions in our hands. When we launched half a year […]
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 […]
The Anti-Beta Revolution. Or is it a Counter-Revolution?
Gizmodo has just issued A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture – great article, and boy, do I love the illustration!. I’m tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system […]
Zoho Announces Status Dashboard for All Services – You Can Use it, Too.
No service is a 100% available, and of course your SaaS provider’s outage always comes in the ‘worst time’, just when you have a deadline to meet… what really gets painful is when you have no information whatsoever on what just happened and how long the outage may be. Major providers like Salesforce.com and Amazon […]
