Web 2.0

Podcast interviews with Sridhar & Raju

| By Arvind
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A few days earlier, Kiruba Shankar interviewed our CEO, Sridhar Vembu. The podcast is up now, click here for accessing it. Lots of insight into services vs products companies in India, venture funding in India now as compared to way back in 1996, how Zoho’s gonna take on Google/Microsoft, desktop vs online security, how blogs have helped spread the word on Zoho etc.

In another interview, Allen Stern at CenterNetworks met up with Raju Vegesna, Zoho Evangelist. The interview concentrates on Zoho’s background & technology behind it, comparison with Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Microsoft Office, the future of office products, Zoho’s clients etc. The podcast can be downloaded from here.

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When will you support “Single Sign On” in Zoho ?

| By Mani
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Recently we have been getting more request from users for “Single Sign On” (SSO) for Zoho services. Single Sign On allows users to register just once to use all Zoho Services.

Recently Priya Ganapathy from RED HERRING finds this annoying to sign up separately for each program ( http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=18050 ). I, being one of the frequent user of Zoho services ( Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Planner & Zoho Creator ), I can understand the pain.

We have been working hard to get this out soon. The delay is due to the data migration. We have come close thrice but since we are not fully satisfied with the way we handled existing users, we just decided to change the design.

Having our own Identity Access Manger software ( http://www.securecentral.com/products/iam/index.html ) made it simple for us to support Single Sign On.

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What’s next from Zoho?

| By Mani
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This is how it looks…. any guess??

Next Zoho service

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ResourceShelf reviews Zoho

| By Arvind
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The ever ‘resourceful‘ Gary Price has a full review of the Zoho suite. From the blog post :

The ResourceShelf team has been a long time fan of the Zoho suite of services and have (of course) mentioned them on the site several times. We’re thrilled to see them getting more and more attention. Just launched, Zoho Show.

Zoho services are more than worth a look (especially for the web-based apps/Web 2.0 junkies out there). Plus, since budgets are always an issue, almost all of Zoho’s web-based services are free.

New: Zoho Show
+ Web based (and free) WYSIWYG presentation creator.

+ Create presentations using content from other Zoho services like Sheets and Writer.

+ Import PowerPoint Presentations or OpenOffice Presentation (.sxi).

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How businesses can benefit from Zoho

| By Arvind
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Albert F. Case, Jr., at TechSpend makes some good points regarding businesses using web-based software. From his article,

I’ve read a lot about Google’s online spreadsheet and Zoho’s ZohoWriter and related products. I’ve also heard a lot of “Who needs it?” That attitude amazes me. During my “informal” survey of a few dozen Excel users I know exactly 0% used pivot tables and charts! Sure, I know people (like me) who do – but the reality is most don’t. Just like most people using Microsoft Office don’t do much more than write reports in Word, send Email in Outlook and do simple spreadsheets in Excel. Now, at $200 to $400 per person, how many thousands of dollars are spent for licenses of Microsoft Office in a company that has 1,000 or 2,000 or 5,000 PCs?

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Zoho Writer recommended at the School Library Journal

| By Arvind
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Chris Harris, in the August issue of the School Library Journal writes,

Save a document with your desktop word processor and there it sits. Sure, you can move it around using the Sneaker-Net on a USB flash drive or e-mail the document, but there are serious limitations. Save a document using Zoho Writer and it is available wherever you can access the Web. You can share the document with read-only or read/write permissions with a simple e-mail invitation. Or you can make the document public and allow anyone to read what you have written. The options don’t stop there; you can also automatically post it to a blog, export it to a PDF file, or even save it in the standard DOC format for use in Microsoft Word.

So the next time you are collaborating on a project with a teacher down the hall, a librarian across the district, or a national committee, why not try Zoho Writer?

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The Indian blogosphere takes note of Zoho

| By Arvind
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Since this happened, the Indian blogosphere has taken note of Zoho. The Indian sites which mentioned this event : (these are the Indian blogs I could find. please add to it if you find any more)

Amit Ranjan at Webyantra
Uday
Kiruba at Chennai Metblogs
Patrix at Desipundit
Mayank Gupta at Reviewsaurus

Thanks everyone!!

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