We hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!
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Humor on the cloud: Thanksgiving
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Raju Vegesna in conversation with Suzanne Bowen
Raju did this podcast for the Cloud Computing Summit, which happened in Hyderabad, India on Nov 26, 2010. Raju discusses many things like cloud computing, SAAS, how SMBs can benefit from SAAS, India’s ongoing transformation from being IT service-oriented to having a lot many product start-ups etc.
The podcast is here.…
This Thanksgiving, we’re thankful for…
Above everything, for our customers who not only keep us in business, but also provide the feedback we need to help us improve.
For our employees, and for their effort to create great products and provide a great service.
For our partners who help us spread the word and reach more people.
For our vendors, who work with us, even though sometimes we’re a pain
For our employees, and for their effort to create great products and provide a great service.
For our partners who help us spread the word and reach more people.
For our vendors, who work with us, even though sometimes we’re a pain
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Zoho@Zoho: Zoho Creator untangles IT Asset Management
IT asset request maintenance is one complex process. Though the business logic for this scenario is pretty lengthy, we did not have much trouble in creating a
Zoho Creator application for this purpose. Our in-house team of Zoho Creator experts being the men behind many such applications which we use extravagantly, we naturally turned to them. “It was more of myth-busting than app-building because, just like any other IT guy, our IT team too was tough to convince. It was hard-wired into them that an online application on Zoho Creator was incapable of doing things that a ready-made software could easily perform. We had to overcome that”, they said.
Zoho Creator application for this purpose. Our in-house team of Zoho Creator experts being the men behind many such applications which we use extravagantly, we naturally turned to them. “It was more of myth-busting than app-building because, just like any other IT guy, our IT team too was tough to convince. It was hard-wired into them that an online application on Zoho Creator was incapable of doing things that a ready-made software could easily perform. We had to overcome that”, they said.
There were many other concerns too. No down-time; Scalability; Notifications; Analysis and reporting tools. We designed it all. After all, we had to impress ourselves first if we are to impress our customers.…
Zoho Viewer Updates
We made a few changes to the Zoho Viewer home page in the last couple of months. The main change is that you can now view a document without publishing it to a URL. This is quite useful when you want to view a private document without publishing it and you don’t have the appropriate software on your computer. However, if you want to publish a document to a URL, you can still do so by using the “Publish this document” setting. There is also a separate form to view a document file already available on a public URL. In this case, the Zoho Viewer URL of this document will be available as long as the file resides on the original URL.
If you are using our bulk upload option, you will notice that selecting multiple files for upload has now been made easier. In the file chooser, you will be presented with a filtered list of files supported by Zoho Viewer and you will be able to select multiple files using the ctrl/shift keys.
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Zoho Wins Google Apps Install contest!
We’ve been continuously adding new features and strengthening our
Integration with Google Apps. Last month we’d released
Zoho contextual gadgets integration for GMail and
Zoho CRM – Google Sites integration.
The result of all our hard work is now beginning to show up
We’ve won a contest run by Google to identify the application vendorsthat drive the most installs in the Apps marketplace in one week.
Thanks to everyone who installed our apps and made Zoho
a winner in the Google Apps marketplace!
Here it is from the
horse’s mouth:
Thanks to everyone who participated in the first Marketing Test Kitchen initiative: “Add to Apps” button. Overall, it was a huge success. The number of vendors using “Add to Apps” buttons grew significantly, causing a large increase in installs driven by button traffic.…
Tim Berners-Lee and Data-driven Journalism
The Guardian has a good article which quotes Sir Tim Berners-Lee as saying, “Data-driven journalism is the future”. The article mentions recent stories like the Wikileaks logs and British MPs spending being brought under the scanner, all through extensive analysis of plentiful data. The article goes on to make the point of how future journalists need to develop capabilities for analyzing data. Can’t agree more. They need to take advantage of the choices that the web’s offering them too.
The charts and visualizations in print were limited because of their static nature. But over the web, data visualizations can take advantage of technologies like Flash and JavaScript and offer interactive graphics. The Guardian’s Data Store and The New York Times’ Visualization Lab come to mind. Not just the big publications, we are seeing even smaller newspapers starting to use interactive data sets for their readers.…
