
People Centric Communication?
I was mulling over the facebook email (or is that not email but messaging) announcement and looking at a bunch of the surrounding commentary when an idea struck me. First though, please don’t skewer me over the blog title until…

Locked in Paradigms
Have you noticed that Google looks terribly stale when compared to Facebook? It’s not that Google’s products are weak by comparison but rather the simple fact that Facebook isn’t locked into paradigms imposed by having widely used products that reflect how earlier generations of users see them. More importantly Facebook has a distribution capability that […]

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

Smallbiz Collaboration Goes Mobile
Listen to my conversation with Shahab Kaviani, EVP of marketing and product marketing at HyperOffice, which provides an online suite of collaboration and productivity applications for small businesses. In this podcast, find out how small business use of online collaboration…

Desktopless World: Is Your Email Signature Stuck in Desktop Era?
The world is changing to mobile. Are your email signatures and etiquettes keeping pace? I have been emailing my close friends, one friend at a time, on how their email signatures need to evolve and thought a blog post was over due. But then I came across an excellent post from the GigaOm network by […]

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

Google’s Control Panel is its Killer App
Google last week brought the spotlight back onto on-demand application marketplaces with its launch of the Google Apps Marketplace. Until the search and online advertising giant waded in, the territory had been a quiet backwater, dominated for the past few years by Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. It’s hard now to credit just how much excitement surrounded the […]

Day Without E-mail: February 1, 2010 #DayWithoutEmail
Here’s an idea. Let’s all agree not to send any e-mail at work on February 1, 2010. We can make February 1, 2010 a “Day Without E-mail.” We’ll all be able to file stuff, talk to people, call them, tweet to our hearts’ content(s), or get some real wo…