Archive for February, 2007
Office 2.0 News
Since Yahoo! released Pipes, I have been looking for a good application I could build with this cool development tool. After a couple hours playing with it, I realized that it was nothing more than a synchronous feed processing tool, but a very easy to use one, so I decided to build a feed aggregator with it. I took feeds from the blogs of as many Office 2.0 applications as I could, and built an Office 2.0 News page with matching feed. Essentially, Office 2.0 News serves all the information you need to keep up to date with everything Office 2.0 related. [Continue…]
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Charts and Maps for Dabble DB
A couple of weeks ago, I described how to use Zoho Sheet alongside Dabble DB in order to generate charts that can be dynamically embedded into any web page. Well, it turns out that I was not the only one interested by such a capability, and the good folks at Dabble DB just released support for charts and maps. [Continue…]
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Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo!’s Pipes might be the tool I have been looking for…
What Makes Synchronization Difficult
Earlier today, I had dinner with my friend Francis Pisani, French compatriot and prolific blogger for famous newspapers such as Le Monde, El País, and Reforma. We discussed about a variety of subjects, including a couple that are dear to my heart: good food and Office 2.0. On the gastronomic side, we pretty much agreed on everything. The same cannot be said about Office 2.0, and we focused our discussion on the complex issue of whether or not synchronization is really needed for Office 2.0 to get mainstream adoption before our brains get directly wired to the Internet. [Continue…]
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Writer
Check Writer, a nostalgic word processor [LifeHacker].
IT|Redux Redux
After more than a year of loyal services, it was about time to retire the original design for IT|Redux, and I am pleased to unveil this brand new one developed by the Benzinger brothers of SolutionWatch fame. Having developed multiple sites over the past few years, I like to consider myself a discerning user when it comes to the design of aesthetically pleasing websites, but Brian and Tim Benzinger have far exceeded any expectations I had for such a project. [Continue…]
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Box.net Integration with Zoho
Box.net is now integrated with Zoho.
New Design
Welcome to the new IT|Redux!
CRM Roundup
Here is the fourth edition of our Weekly Office 2.0 Roundup. Today, we will review 9 CRM applications, from Free CRM to Zoho CRM. We will identify some unique features that might help your own selection process, and you will get a chance to cast your vote for the best CRM application. [Continue…]
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Where BPM and BI Intersect
The BPM acronym means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. If you’re into techno music, it’s all about beats per minute. If you’re a fan of Business Intelligence (BI), you know all about Business Performance Management. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you must have a strong interest for Business Process Management. Today, we will focus on the later topic, and try to outline where it intersects with BI. [Continue…]
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The Quest for the Perfect Online Image Editor
Over the past few months, a flury of online image editing tools have been released, including Phixr, Picnik, Pixer, and Snipshot. They all make it easy to remove red eyes on a picture, or apply a sepia filter to it, but they fall short when being used for web development. [Continue…]
