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Thursday, 18th September 2008

Zoho: The Little Engine That Could (Take on Both Microsoft and Google)

We all love the David and Goliath story. What about David vs two Goliaths? That is the improbable story of Zoho, the Web Office startup competing head on with both Microsoft and Google. On top of that, Zoho is from India and who ever heard of a product company from India? Indeed Zoho has only 10 people in America, yet it is winning really big…

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FriendFeed Dials Down the Noise With Duplicate Detection

In its early days, FriendFeed was known for releasing new features on an almost daily basis. That breakneck speed has slowed now that the lifestreaming and aggregation service has come out of private beta, but sometimes FriendFeed still surprises us with new features and user interface changes. Just a few days ago, we wrote about FriendFeed's new…

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How Decoupled is The Innovation Economy From Rest of The Economy?

What a week of market mayhem! How odd having that as the backdrop to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. We have been sounding alerts about the economic backdrop to our world of innovation for nearly a year. Back in February we wrote that this is not our bubble. Since then, the news from the economy has gotten worse and nobody is suggesting it will get…

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Product Reviews

Amazon to Launch Content Delivery Network

This morning, Amazon announced that it would soon launch a content delivery network (CDN). This new service, which does not have a name yet, will be complimentary to Amazon's existing web services and will work seamlessly with S3, Amazon's online storage solution. Like most of Amazon's web services, this new product will not require a contract…

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Finally: Joost Now Available on the Web

Today, Joost announced that all of its content is now available directly on its website and not just through its desktop client. Joost was one of the most hyped-up companies on the web when the peer-to-peer streaming video service was still in stealth mode in 2006 and beta invites were rare and coveted. However, once users actually got a look at…

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