Analysis Mainstream Media Usage of Web 2.0 Services is Increasing Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus I was reading a Time magazine article online today, entitled Marketing to your mind. This article was very provocative and I enjoyed reading it. But after I was done, something else caught my attention. I was surprised to see a row of 'web 2.0' buttons at the bottom of the article. Time… Richard MacManus View comments
web Gizmo Call Launches, Browser-based VoIP VoIP company SIPphone is at DEMO today, where it is launching Gizmo Call - an online service that makes VoIP phone calls possible from any web browser. It works via a Flash plugin, which enables users to make calls simply by typing a phone number into a text-field in a browser. Users can also use URLs like http://gizmocall.com/18005551212 (that… Richard MacManus View comments
web SalesWorks Takes On Salesforce.com With Hybrid Web/Desktop App Mission Research, a vendor of contact management solutions for the nonprofit sector, has launched a product today at DEMO aimed at the SOHO market. The product is called SalesWorks and is similar to Salesforce.com, in that it's used to manage contacts or sales leads. In fact it's being billed as "a Salesforce.com for the SOHO market", but without… Richard MacManus View comments
web Zoho Announces Notebook - "Not Just Online OneNote" Disclosure: Zoho is a sponsor of R/WW. At DEMO today Zoho, the Web Office suite company, will announce an interesting new preview product called Zoho Notebook. I was given a run-through of the product by Raju Vegesna. The obvious competitors to Zoho Notebook are Microsoft's OneNote application and Google Notebook. This new offering by Zoho is… Richard MacManus View comments
Microsoft How Will Microsoft Respond To Online Office Threat Written by Jay Fortner and edited by Richard MacManus With the consumer release today of Microsoft Office 2007, it's a good time to look at the online office space - and what, if anything, Microsoft will do to address this growing market. In 2007 we expect to see good progress in the adoption of Internet-based productivity applications, such as… Richard MacManus View comments