Robin Good of MasterNewMedia had an interview with our CEO, Sridhar Vembu. The interview just got published online.
If you want insights about our company, who we are, what we do, what Zoho is all about & what we intend to do with it, this interview is the best place for you to start with. You can find the interview here.
Thanks a lot, Robin!
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Is there a better name for a blog post that has merely links? For the lack of (unaware of) a better (proper) name, I choose “Link Clouds” instead.
Posting links as a round up can mean any of the following things:
(a) There’s a lot of interesting stuff out there. Check them out and enjoy them for yourself. Don’t expect me to elaborate, it’ll spoil the fun. Genuine and altruistic ones, these are.
(b) I’m out of stuff to write, my hit counter tells me that I have a readership to take care of; a readership that gets offended if I don’t post anything new on a week end; a readership that begins to dwindle if there are no posts for two consecutive days.
(c) Good procrastination. I’m awfully busy, but wouldn’t want to disappoint my visitors by having a cobweb for a blog. So there. Check it out, and come back later.
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Some good links I came across while reading through my subscription list:
Is it time for Universal Time?
Jason Kottke’s letter to Apple Support. Quite funny.
Guy Kawasaki’s Top ten lies of Entrepreuners. Ditto. Dilbert Principle extended to Entrepreneurs.
iNods. Everything from King Kong to Nike Air.
Fleck and Fleck blog. “patent pending, world changing, paradigm shifting” They promise to cover every “Web 2.0 hype”. A little light-heartedness always helps, even if it is a serious AJAX powered application.
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When Gmail came up with their ‘labels’ concept as opposed to ‘Folders’, many people loved it. On the other hand, many people didnt prefer it too. People are used to folders approach and labels concept is a jump to a new way of organizing which some are comfortable with and some are not.
In my view, labels and folders should co-exist. It is not one or the other. It is both. Just let the user choose what he wants. Why should the product control what the user should use? It should just provide an option for the user to choose the prefered way.
So we decided to implement both concepts. Here are screenshots of both.
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Interesting point to note is, there is no other webmail system (as far as I know) apart from Zoho which supports both folders and labels concept.
Raju
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Mike made a interesting mention in his Techcrunch post today claiming that
- 99.9% of the Internet population is looking to create new application from scratch
- should allow non-programmers to build applications. Don’t expect people to know PHP or even HTML
He said it perfectly. People want to build applications to their situated needs, their long tail of applications. Home users or small business people want applications that solves their local needs and problems, they want to build apps from scratch in minutes with just few mouse clicks and go live without any coding of PHP or HTML knowledge. They hate to get help from developers.
Happy that our Zoho Creator is heading at right direction
Hyther
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This update has quite a few interesting things
- New modules for Google/Pageflakes Personal Desktops
- Editor Addons – Smileys/emoticons & special characters
- Improved Doc information footer
- Undo/Redo issues in IE fixed
Add Zoho Writer to your Google personalized page now. Click on the ‘Add Stuff’ link at the top-right, click ‘Add by URL’ at the top, give http://zohowriter.com/google.xml http://writer.zoho.com/google.xml as the input and click ‘Add’. In the Zoho Writer login page that appears, give the credentials & sign in. You’ll have the links of last few documents of your Zoho Writer account visible. For Pageflakes, the file URL to be given is http://www.zohowriter.com/MyDocs1.do
Mail, SMS, Chat – wherever you go, they are omnipresent now.
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Zoho Websheet, an online spreadsheet application, is coming soon to a browser near you. Finally, you can move all your excel work online.
Here is a first look at the beta preview by Stowe Boyd of Web 2.0 Workgroup:
http://www.corante.com/getreal/archives/2005/12/19/first_look_zoho_websheet.php
We are planning to launch it soon. Stay tuned !
If you would love to see any specific feature in it, do write to us at support (at) zohowebsheet (dot) com.
Ramesh
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