Archive for March, 2007
Universcale
Universcale is beautiful [Webware].
Creating an Office 2.0 Office Space
Earlier this week, one of the developers at Intalio suggested that the Server Team, which is made of three developers living in San Francisco, CA and working in our Redwood City office, and one developer working from home in Ann Arbor, MI, moves to San Francisco, CA, in order to reduce commute time. Our current offices were already too large for us, and this relocation project might be the compelling event I had been waiting for to move into a more suitable space. This might in turn let us experiment with the creation of an Office 2.0 office space. [Continue…]
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Waiting for the HTC Advantage
In my quest for the best Office 2.0 mobile device, I recently came across the upcoming HTC Advantage. It’s a funny little device that is slightly larger than a smartphone or a PDA, but smaller and lighter than the Sony VAIO UX180P or the OQO Model 01+ we reviewed in past articles. [Continue…]
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MindMeister is Über Cool
One of the must-have applications I had to leave behind when moving to a pure online setup was the excellent MindManager from Mindjet. Before going online, I used it for about a year, and it totally redefined the way I managed ideas and implemented the upstream parts of David Allen’s GTD process. Unfortunately, no online alternatives existed, until now… [Continue…]
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Clearspace Could Bring Office 2.0 to BPM 2.0
As indicated last week, the Under The Radar event brought its fair share of discoveries, and I am still trying to find some time to play with some of the applications I saw there. One got me seriously thinking beyond the realm of Office 2.0 though — Clearspace, which is developed by Jive Software. [Continue…]
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Spreadsheet Roundup
Here is the eleventh edition of our Weekly Office 2.0 Roundup. Today, we will review 10 online spreadsheet editors, from ajaxXLS to Zoho Sheet. 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 online spreadsheet editor. [Continue…]
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Notes From Under the Radar
Today, I attended the Under The Radar event on Office 2.0 as a judge on a couple of panels (Collaborative Planning and Web Sharing). With over 350 participants, this was one of UTR’s most attended events, proof that the Office 2.0 movement is gaining some serious traction. Here are some notes from the field. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Startups Should Join the AppExchange
For a consumer-oriented Web 2.0 startup, eyeballs might be all it takes to get funded. But for an Office 2.0 upstart, paying customers are required to get investors even remotely interested in your venture. This creates an interesting challenge for entrepreneurs: where to find prospects willing to try new products, without having to spend any money on marketing? Part of the answer might be provided by our friends at Salesforce.com, in the form of the AppExchange. [Continue…]
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Devices and Tools for the Office 2.0 Conference
The dates for the second edition of the Office 2.0 Conference have been confirmed: September 5-6, 2007. In the meantime, we are looking for input regarding a couple of topics: the Internet connected device we should get for each participant, and the conference management system we should use for registrations. [Continue…]
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AppSpace Looks Great but Too Expensive
Yesterday, Salesforce.com launched its Spring ‘07 edition, and announced AppSpace, a platform allowing the development of customer-facing web based applications powered by the Salesforce.com application and the Apex language. AppSpace is currently scheduled to be available in April as a limited release, and looks very promising. Unfortunately, its current pricing will put it out of range for a broad category of existing or potential Salesforce.com customers. [Continue…]
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Presentation Roundup
Here is the tenth edition of our Weekly Office 2.0 Roundup. Today, we will review 13 online presentation tools, from AJAX-S to Zoho Show. 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 online presentation tool. [Continue…]
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How To Outsource Product Management
Product Management is one of the most critical functions for any enterprise software companies. As a product gets used by more and more customers, requests for new requirements start to pile in, and the job of a Product Manager is to prioritize them in order to meet customers’ needs, while avoiding feature creep. During Intalio’s early years as a company, we found it very difficult to manage this process. Too many resources where allocated to the development of features that very few customers actually needed, while features that could have made a significant difference on the market did not get developed, for lack of available resources. We only managed to solve this problem when we decided to outsource it, and selected an unlikely outsourcing partner for it: our customers. [Continue…]
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Cisco Goes Office 2.0
Cisco’s acquisition of WebEx brings good and bad news. Good news: the Office 2.0 industry welcomes a formidable new player that has the potential of fundamentally altering the rules of the game. Bad news: WebEx Connect, arguably one of the most ambitious projects announced last year, might be at risk of being neglected. It’s too early to tell what the true impact of such an acquisition will be on the industry at large, but here is why it matters. [Continue…]
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Joyent Announces JAJAH Integration
Joyent and JAJAH are now integrated.
Sharing the BPEL Love
Assuming that everything goes as planned, the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification will be approved by OASIS later this month. This will mark the end of a four year long process for taking the BPEL specification to a level where it can be used in production for managing virtually any kind of business process. Intalio is a co-author of the specification, and has been supporting early drafts since February 2006, giving us some invaluable experience regarding its use within the most demanding production environments (Cf. performance numbers). But because the development of this specification was a collaborative effort, it’s time to share the love, and I could not think of a better recipient for it than one of our competitors—Oracle. [Continue…]
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More Charts in Zoho Sheet
Zoho Sheet just got more charts. Neat!
Office 2.0 Bookmarks
Last week, Vincenzo Belpiede suggested that we make it easier to import bookmarks for all the applications that are registered into the Office 2.0 Database. We liked the idea, and wrote 39 lines of fairly simple PHP code to get it done. If you want access to 459 applications right from your web browser, all you really have to do is import this file into your bookmark manager. [Continue…]
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Feed Reader Roundup
Here is the ninth edition of our Weekly Office 2.0 Roundup. Today, we will review 11 online feed readers, from Bloglines to Wizz RSS. 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 online feed reader. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Database Redux
The Office 2.0 Database created almost a year ago now contains over 450 applications, which have been submitted by more than 150 contributors. It started as a single page separate from the core IT|Redux blog, then evolved into a collection of pages, but did not offer the ability for readers to write reviews. This is now fixed, with the release of a brand new Office 2.0 Database, with its own domain name. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Audit Service
Following last week’s article on Nielsen/NetRatings and their outrageous claims regarding Google’s marketshare in the Office 2.0 space, I have had discussions with several service providers, and we came up with the conclusion that a better auditing service is needed. Here is what we have in mind. [Continue…]
