http://blogs.zoho.com Online Office Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:30:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ian Wenig, Senior Director Strategic Alliances at Zoho got interviewed by Daniel Brusilovsky at the Structure 08 event presented by GigaOm. The interview is now up at Daniel's Apple Universe podcasting site. Zoho from Daniel Brusilovsky on Vimeo. Thanks to Daniel. http://blogs.zoho.com/general/daniel-brusilovsky-interviews-ian-wenig/ Zoho Projects underwent an update just now and the below features are now available. Multiple Admins : Till now, Zoho Projects followed the single admin concept. But from now on, there can be multiple admins. The one who created the Zoho Projects account is assigned the super-admin / portal owner role. ... http://blogs.zoho.com/general/zoho-projects-update-multiple-admins-task-documentsforums-mapping-etc/ There is a NYTimes story today on the rise of "cloud computers" and net-tops like the Asus EEE. I have called them Fireboxes in the past myself, but cloud computer would work! Here are some reasons I think why this trend is inevitable. 1. Convenience: On any kind of decent broadband ... http://blogs.zoho.com/uncategorized/cloud-computers-and-lazy-computing/ Any recruiting / staffing firm may face problems like negotiating client deals, keeping the clients updated on the job opening status, sourcing appropriate candidates, pooling resources for interviews, tracking applicants, offering negotiations etc, which distract them from their focus of hiring an appropriate candidate. Zoho People helps automate the process ... http://blogs.zoho.com/people/zoho-people-howto-for-staffing-firms/ We have featured the friendly Technologist cum Educator, Barry Dahl of Lake Superior College before. Barry continues to be a strong Zoho (and ToonDoo, Jambav) advocate for more than a couple of years now. From a recent post of his, At the risk of sounding too much like a fanboy – ... http://blogs.zoho.com/general/user-appreciation-for-toondoo-jambav-zoho/ Yes, three easy steps are all it takes to export your data from Zoho Invoice to Zoho Sheet. You can export and view all of your invoices, quotes, contacts, customers and items in Zoho Sheet. I am sure most of you would be using this feature already, exploring ... http://blogs.zoho.com/uncategorized/one-two-three-export-data-from-zoho-invoice-to-zoho-sheet/ Zoho Sheet has this "Link External Data" functionality, which can be used to mashup with data on the web. It can sync your Zoho spreadsheet with data in public CSV files, HTML tables and RSS feeds. Zoho Sheet will basically fetch data periodically from the configured URL and update the ... http://blogs.zoho.com/creator/mashup-with-external-data-in-zoho-sheet/ Sometime back one of our beloved customer had asked us to support “ritenuta d'acconto” in Zoho Invoice.  Yes, you read it right!  “ritenuta d'acconto” in Italian stands for tax that is pre-paid by the seller. In some countries (especially Italy) it is a common practice for the sellers to pre-pay the ... http://blogs.zoho.com/general/support-for-pre-paid-taxes-in-zoho-invoice/ InfoWorld did a good analysis of MS Office alternatives (Slideshow here). They picked couple of vendors from the cloud (Zoho and Google) and couple from the Open Source world (IBM and OpenOffice) and did some analysis to see if they stand any chance against MS Office. Full article is available ... http://blogs.zoho.com/uncategorized/office-alternatives/ We are delighted that Swisscom (incumbent telco in Switzerland) has chosen Zoho for a six month pilot for its Zoho Business Suite which is now available on their Software-as-a-Service portal Teamnet. Zoho and Swisscom have teamed up to create a custom version of Zoho Business, with Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show, Notebook ... http://blogs.zoho.com/general/swisscom-selects-zoho/