Tabbed Browsing, tags as folders & more

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Arvind

Zoho Writer just had another update today. Explaining few of the features here.

Tabbed Browsing: The screenshot below says it all! Open multiple documents within Zoho Writer, the Firefox way. Believe that will give you folks much more easiness to play with your documents in Zoho Writer!

Tags as folders: Tags have replaced folders in this Web 2.0 world (read GMail, del.icio.us, Flickr). But there are still folks who are die-hard fans of folders. Zoho Writer now combines the power of these two. Tag similar documents with a same tag & have such tags as folders in the left pane! Easy and at the same time, powerful right? Thanks to Phil Sim who suggested this.

Coming to other useful enhancements : The skin that you choose will now be remembered (from wherever you login, it will remain as your choice), all http://, https:// inside your doc will automatically be made a link (seems we are yet to do this for www), you can add comments on public docs (Zoho Planner already has it too!) & last but not the least, you can have some Global Settings in the form of ‘Options’ – save your skin, change your account password, open docs in tab format or not & whether to allow comments to your public pages.

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Robert Scoble on how to increase blog traffic

Posted on February 15, 2006 by Arvind

Robert Scoble had a cute little experiment going with his “brrreeeport” – a word he asked bloggers to have in their blogs, allowing him to calculate how fast & how many of these blog posts got crawled by the blog search engines. And he followed it up with a nice post on how to make it to the A-list. Points he mentions :

Have a good headline/opening text for each blog post
Claim your blog at Technorati
Be different (meaning stand apart from the crowd)
Have a good title tag for your blog
Tag often & have more tags for each post
Make friends with bloggers (be it the Z-list or A-list)
Mail people when you think you have a good blog post

Making it to the A-list or not, those sure are good tips for any blogger to increase their blog traffic.

tags: brrreeeport, scoble, scobleizer, blogging tips, increase blog traffic

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On Interoperability

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Krithiga

Ismael Ghalimi hits the nail on the head with the post – Office 2.0 Interoperability. I’m one of the victims of what I’d call, “Oh, I forgot what login I entered for this web service” syndrome. Sometimes I don’t trust a lot of web services and enter an alternate login e-mail address. It becomes nearly impossible to remember them all, and having a “Remember Password” isn’t a great idea when several people use the same PC terminal. (as pointed out in the post)

This is where Google’s services score over the other. A Gmail address is sufficient for accesing all Google affiliated services, right from Google Reader to Orkut. Like the post says, it is a very complex problem to solve, given the number of e-mail service providers. What I’d suggest is something similar to a feature of Zoho Writer: There is a “Post to your blog” option with a list of popular blog service providers, it would be great if genuine web services offer a “Sign in with your X email account” where X would be an e-mail service like Yahoo, or Gmail.

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“Somebody Else’s Problem” Field

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Krithiga

Murphy’s law was proved. Yet again. While working on a laptop without a mouse, adding sound and video files to a Powerpoint presentation is a Herculean task. The scroll pad of the laptop with its virtue to be hyper senstive, will go several slides back even with the slightest contact that the finger tip makes. I had to insert several sound files in several slides, and every time I did that, an irritating prompt, “Do you want the sound file to play since the start of slideshow?” or something to that effect. I would have very much preferred if there was a tool bar button to insert several sound files without a prompt asking for ridiculous questions like those.

The other testing times are those “Cannot read from CD” moments. It happens when I do stuff from my home PC, make a copy in a disc and load the CD in somebody else’s laptop/PC in the presentation venue.

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Can some bloggers make or break Web 2.0 start-ups?

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Arvind

Phil Sim at Squash writes :

Iâ€™d suggest if youâ€™re a start-up expecting that a bit of blog publicity is going to get you kickstarted then you need to have another look at your business plan. Most trackbacks that Squash gets generate half a dozen or so page views.

I can’t agree with him more. Prominent bloggers can at best have a temporary impact with their positive, negative or ignoring attitude towards a start-up but it is finally the product/service that counts.

Phil’s view warns Web 2.0 product companies not to depend on marketing to the bloggers alone. And I would like to take it a bit further. Each blogger has a different viewpoint. Take the example of 30boxes. While Om Malik, Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk & others raved about it, Joel (on Software) thrashed it saying, “I’m not going to look at 30 Boxes again — I’ve spent enough time evaluating it.

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PXN8 is Cool

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Arvind

Welcome PIX-EN-ATE.

The ‘thick desktop client’ bastion is fast breaking down. The comment “You ever think that doing Photoshop inside a Web browser would be impossible? Well, PXN8 gets a lot closer than I would have expected” from none other than Robert Scoble (who’d used Photoshop as an example of why thick clients are needed still) makes it all the more true.

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Dion Hinchcliffe reviews Zoho Planner at Web 2.0 Journal

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Arvind

Thanks a lot Dion, for the extensive & cool review of Zoho Planner.

He writes, “Using a wiki-like page model as a unit of work and collaboration, Zoho Planner lets you drop to do lists, appointments, file attachments, and notes on a page at will and then share them out for others to view or work on”, “Zoho Planner offers the now expected Ajax client and in my tests, the resulting interface was clean and natural to use, in fact, probably one of the best Iâ€™ve seen, “Long running tasks always provided a visual cue that something was happening, and I encountered no bugs in my testing. Overall, interaction experience gets a big thumbs up”, “Overall Zoho Planner is a basic but capable planning service that is exceptionally easy to use”.

And he lists no RSS support or API, permalinks are basic as cons.

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