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Re: Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:16:54 -0000

Fred, Great material, thanks. I thought I'd show you an easier way to share your doc's online, using Zoho Writer:

http://snipurl.com/patentdiscussion<br />

Re: Cliche of The Week

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:52:15 -0000

A funny coincidence that in my reader your post is followed by this:

http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/07/pajamas-ac...>

So: Open the kimono... Drop the Pajamas:-)

What a way to start a day!

Re: Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:16:54 -0000

Fred, Great material, thanks. I thought I'd show you an easier way to share your doc's online, using Zoho Writer:

http://snipurl.com/patentdiscussion

Re: Cliche of The Week

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:52:15 -0000

A funny coincidence that in my reader your post is followed by this:

http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/07/pajamas-accused-of-being-front-for-bush-administration/

So: Open the kimono... Drop the Pajamas:-)

What a way to start a day!

Re: Which printer company is the least rapacious?

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:26:29 -0000

It's ugly. At the same time, Ford, GM and others don't give away their cars almost free and sell us "proprietary" gas at sky-high prices:-)

Re: Paying my taxes=light blogging

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:42:22 -0000

Dennis, you beat my by 1, daytime high yesterday was 42C - although nicer inside, running AC...

Re: Am I evil?

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:59:35 -0000

Dennis, I've actually tried to solicit more data to see if there is any correlation between the Readability and Evil tests, but haven't received enough input ... as you can see it really all started with your previous Readability post:-)

And for some more "evil" stats, see this - take not of who has the highest evil score :-)

Re: SAP CEO’s hilarious quote

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:16:47 -0000

Oh, well, McKinsey is even worse, questioning accounting on the web at all, free or $$$ :-)

Re: Exit interview – Scoble style

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:28:57 -0000

I actually had a great time at Deloitte in the 90's - not the accountancy, but the consulting side.

Re: Text Link Ads support sucks – so they’re gone

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:00:26 -0000

Textlink is bad ... but at least they are not evil like Intellitxt is...

Re: Why Technorati is irrelevant to reputation

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 26 May 2006 22:47:51 -0000

Dennis, I agree with you, it was funny to read this 10 minutes after your post though:-)

Re: Lessons from SAPPHIRE06

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:52:13 -0000

Technorati is dying, as usual. I know for a fact that there are a lot more post from the blogger group, yet T'rati is not picking up the SAPPHIRE06 tag. It's not over yet, btw., the event ended, must of us spend tomorrow traveling, so I'd expect a lot more posts in the coming 2 days or so.

Re: Stormhoek, open source beer and SME marketing

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:05:07 -0000

Now that you can brew your own beer, this may be the next step :-)

Re: Are You The Smartest Person in the Room?

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:54:37 -0000

What's amazing about Ben that wherever he goes there is a chance thathe indeed is the smartest person in the room :-)

Re: Facts on SaaS growth

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:26:27 -0000

It wasn't exactly McKinsey' s brightest day :-)

Re: Facts on SaaS growth

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:12:50 -0000

Great update! :-)

Here's a tip - I guess both for you and Stefan: use Thumbstacks. Create / share online presentations without having to up/download them. Although I am a bit surprised, I thought Zoho worked the same way- but when I clicked the chart, it got downloaded first, then opened.

Re: Questioning McKinsey on SaaS adoption predictions for financial applications

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:51:26 -0000

Dennis, you're right, I jumped on financials, and did not pick on document management. The funny thing is, those numbers in the financial apps are the result of real business activity that may very well have been conducted in the CRM, procurement..etc systems.

And again, document management... wow.. our external interaction is often on hosted platforms (email), sales contracts are largely in hosted systems (CRM)... I could go on.

Interestingly enough businesses lost more confidential data from inside the firewall to disgruntled ex-employees than due to "exposure" to SaaS providers.

Re: Help needed – data input?

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:48:26 -0000

Dennis, this is likely a naive question, but if your clients can handle online forms, could they not just use money management software?

Re: Hiring strategies

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:59:53 -0000

Dennis, it's not such an unusual thought ... I witnessed similar situations (reverse interview, the candidate interviewing the firms) in the mid 90's in th e then-red-hot ERP Consulting business.

Re: Excel 2007 – slick interface

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:34:41 -0000

I feel so releived: this will be the first version of MS Office I really don't have to buy. I'm already using Writely, and by the time MS releases their bloatware, I'm sure one of the Web-based Excel-replacements will be good enough for me.
Of course I am not a heavy-weight Excel user...

Re: One question: Is John Dvorak on drugs?

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:03:31 -0000

How about Mac OS X - powered Dells one day? :-)

Re: Will money make Technorati better?

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:20:16 -0000

Matt, thanks for linking to my post - I need to calrify though, that I am not going out of my way to bash Technorati.

In fact, in the article you pointed to and several others I recognized them as Innovators in the blogosphere: what they do is cool, just fails to work at scale. So they have operational problems, can't keep up with the explosive growth of the blogosphere, hence the call for a "white knight" who would acquire them and put the robust infrastructure in place. The investment, if it goes towards infrastructure could have the same effect, so to get back to your title, yes, money can make Technorati a LOT better.

Re: Microsoft finally rids itself of Apple

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:50:53 -0000

...And while at it, why not get rid of Oracle, Sun and Google, too? (yes, they are also missing). More here: http://www.zoliblog.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/25/1074634.html

Re: Online travel space heats up

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:11:06 -0000

Matt, you'll need to fix the Bizjournal URL ...

Re: Big brain means small testes, finds bat study

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:07:17 -0000

Good to know it does not talk about humans... otherwise...hm... if you look down and ... well, you see a decent size... does it mean you're brainless? :-)

Re: Doing deals in Om’s loo

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:05:28 -0000

Scott might want to rename his compay Lookles :-)

Re: Plum launches — to help you collect everything in one place

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:12:18 -0000

When will startups learn they need sufficient server / bandwith capacity on launch date, especially a well-published one.... site down...ahhh.

Re: Kleiner Perkins surprises, with $200 million “pandemic” fund

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:24:35 -0000

Matt, for some reason the URL's don't come through in your feed.

Re: Bungle continued: Gmail down

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:39:53 -0000

And they've lost their sense of humor:
http://www.zoliblog.com/blog/_archives/2006/3/8/1808861.html

Re: Silicon Valley RFID company, Savi, sells for $400 million

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:26:27 -0000

How much of a "roll" this is, is questionable, IMHO. I vaguely recall a funding round a few years ago valued Savi at $400M...

Re: Another reason to visit Microsoft Silicon Valley…

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:42:53 -0000

Hm... I just switched back to a good old, simple wired Logitech mousevsince my MS Intellimouse Wireless Explorer (or something like that, who can remember such a name) died afer 3 years of service. In her short life she was an ever-hungry battery-eater:-(

Re: Track your comments, no matter where you make them

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:45:33 -0000

Bill, keep on fishing, I came here AFTER you and found one - close to the bottom, in the last batch.

Re: Dave Winer: how RSS can break through

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:38:05 -0000

I know I'll be labeled as "elitist" for saying this. Believe me, I am not.

Yes, I know the 80% is a skewed number, it's 80% of the web-savy, blogger, conference-goer geeky minority who were in the 21st century long before the rest of us:-)

But let's be real and ask ourselves of the purpose of our commnication. More often than not we don't want to address the entire population of Planet Earth:-) More often than not we have a target audience ... and chances are in many cases that target will be the innovator crowd, in which case 80% is not that bad.

OK, you can throw stones now :-)

Re: Dave Winer: how RSS can break through

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:44:02 -0000

Damn, I forgot to CoComment this :-(

Re: Scoblr hatr thisr trendr (Grabbr shoots screens to Flickr)

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:35:28 -0000

Oh, well, you haven't even seen WANKR :)
http://www.parm.net/web2.0/

Re: Another CommentTracker released last week

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:35:34 -0000

Wow, now I know what it means to get Scobleized. By the time I woke up, I had more hits, then my daily average:-)

Re: Harvard Business School gets Naked

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:27:45 -0000

This must be Harvard's way of catching up with a Yale's traditional Naked Parties :-)
http://www.blacktable.com/thompson030501.htm

Re: Technorati adds authority weighting

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:09:50 -0000

Wow, the most useful feature for a long time! :-)

Re: BlogCode helps you find blogs similar to…

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:22:40 -0000

Well, this was a disappointment - I thought it would somehow analyze the source blog, but the only input seems to be the few slider settings ... or have I missed something?

Re: Co.mments.com turns comments into RSS

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:03:02 -0000

This may be better than coComment or MyComments, since you're not dependent on others clicking or installing a plugin. Let's see .. I am testing with this thread.

Re: Polls with rounded corners

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:17:32 -0000

I used dpolls a few times .. cute:-) My only complaint - oops, I just realize where I am saying it - is that I have to log in with IE, the site partially dies with FF.

Re: On plane today: testing offline blog editors

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:20:09 -0000

Still stuck with BlogJet, has Qumana got any better with the code they produce? Last time I cecked it created an html-soup almost impossible to look at.

Re: Brrreeeport report

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:25:18 -0000

I don't show on the Technorati tags list, but I am there on regular search. This is actually quite typical: I often find my posts indexed minutes after the ping, which means they show up on regular Technorati search, but the tags are nowhere. A few hours later one or two tags show up, and it may take days before all tags are found. Go figure ....

Re: Polls with rounded corners

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:12:53 -0000

It looks great in Firefox, but when I want to log in, it gives me this BS: "The browser you're using refuses to sign in. (cookies rejected)"

Cookies are NOT rejected, they are allowed, in fact I specifically enetered their site to allow it, tried ALL cookie settings in FF, to no avail. So when I want to create a new poll, I have to use IE.

Re: Steve Rubel is testing memetrackers

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:05:16 -0000

What I really like about Tailrank is after you applied your personal filter, you can further filter by the number of links. Have anough time? Let it all flow .. busy day? Pick a higher link number, and just see the few "hot" items.

Re: Back in the office, more events to come

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:31:09 -0000

"New Communications Forum" - yet another $900 conference.. yuck:-(

I guess I'll just read the blogs for free :-)

Re: SEO contest!

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:09:58 -0000

Damn, he is only 19, that cute kid on the left is not really his, is he? :-)

Re: Is your company seeing a bozo explosion?

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:26:53 -0000

Haha...on that college degree note:

I had a boss whose career maxed out at the leading Enterprise Software company, for not having a college degree. He started his own consultancy, staying in the same business, grew it to 500 people then sold it. Next he was invited as CEO of another consultancy, grew it, sold it at the height of the "bubble", for high 9-digits. Now he is a well respected VC, personal wealth probably low 9-digits. I guess he is grateful that his former bosses did not promote him :-)

Re: Um, doesn’t this patent have prior art?

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:29:42 -0000

Of course it's not bad, but it will be used for extortion. This is highway robbery. Also shows how patent laws are stone-age.

Re: Um, doesn’t this patent have prior art?

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:30:16 -0000

Sorry, I meant to say not THAT bad.

Re: Is your company seeing a bozo explosion?

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:42:16 -0000

kr8tr, *almost* meaning not quite 9 digits yet, just 9? :-))

Re: Is your company seeing a bozo explosion?

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:43:58 -0000

damn, I can't type today, meant to say not quite 9 digits yet, just 8? :-))

Re: Better mail than jail

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:26:14 -0000

Robert, I honestly don't see why you even respond to someone who hides behind the name Goebbels without a link. Does anyone here know who Goebbels was? How can any sane person use that name?

Re: Better mail than jail

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:06:22 -0000

The name Goebbels is a synonym for Untrue.. that is if you know history. And if you do, it's a tasteless choice of a handle.

Re: The role of anti-marketing design

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:16:55 -0000

It's not just the design that's ugly, but some of the posts, too, althought I guess he can't do a whole lot to "fix" user created junk. This one's from the front page:
"looking fo a real nigga
Yea, wus up this ya girl sexyfidethang and i wanna holla at the real niggas so let me take a second to tell yall bout me, bet!"

Re: Gizmodo: Microsoft has its evil back

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:35:12 -0000

OK, here’s a lil’ making fun of your competitor :-)

But some of the Origami still look ugly (have you seen the Samsung one?)

Re: Gizmodo: Microsoft has its evil back

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:37:07 -0000

Goebbels, they are doing something well though, the video was cute:-)

Re: 20 minutes in Houston

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:49:56 -0000

I am about to launch a test soon to prove the point that resumes are dead, the new resume is your BLOG. Robert, since the larger the statistical sample, the more reliable the results, I hope I’ll get some link love when the test comes ... in the name of science:-)

Re: 20 minutes in Houston

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:35:36 -0000

Christopher, I am with Robert in that often a long-standing blog is better than a resume... BUT, I cut you a deal: you save $750K, hire me for the other $750K and I WILL write a resume right now:-)

Re: Overwhelmed with pitches, Dave, say it isn’t so!

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:54:28 -0000

Oh, well, here's my pitch. In a comment to Robert’s “resume vs. blog” post I promised to launch a “scientific” test soon. Here we go; except that it’s not just a test, it’s for real: I’m pleased to announce the limited, invitation-only launch of Zoli 3.0. :-)

Re: Guy sucks down (follow these rules, they’ll help you get ahead in life)

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:26:44 -0000

C'mon, the title really only makes sense in context: he had a previous post about "sucking up". That one was not exactly well received, rightfully so.... but this one is really common sense, if we all behaved like this , the world would be a better place.

Re: Power Lunch

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:46:31 -0000

Geez, yucky table setting for the world's richest man :-))

Re: Power Lunch

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:02:04 -0000

Well, on second thought I wouldn't eat a whole lot if I got to have lunch with him :-)

Re: Steve says “I shoulda been there”; gives me a “reality check”

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:40:41 -0000

Robert, I don't go to the extreme of equating Writely with Word... but let's not forget a fact: most of us, users don't need the myriad of Word features. In fact most of us would be quite happy with a Word Lite (a.k.a. Writely), and are only forced to use "big" Word for compatibility reasons with the companies who upgrade early.
Oh, and as for Notepad, well, that's probably as far from Writely as Writely is from Word.

Re: Steve says “I shoulda been there”; gives me a “reality check”

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:59:58 -0000

Robert, I can't name them, cause I have the feeling the over the years and releases my knowledge of Office deteriated to the point that I only know 10% :-) I do sometimes find myself struggling with autoformatting and all sorts of funny action Word wants to do on its own... and as for Excel, I think I am still using a sunset that's perhaps the equivalent of Lutus 1-2-3. :-))

But joke apart, I've always wondered why Works didn't take off more: it had integration way back in the late 80's, when the Office components did not really talk to each other, and was fairly easy to use.

Re: Steve says “I shoulda been there”; gives me a “reality check”

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:08:25 -0000

Wow, this server is on GMT?

Re: Steve says “I shoulda been there”; gives me a “reality check”

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:22:34 -0000

I just checked it, you can enter your time offset at Manage > Options in wordpress.com.

Re: The irritant of the non-credible journalists

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:37:15 -0000

OK, to cool the tempers off, and for some fun, check out this photo – then guess how it relates to the Steve Jobs.

Re: The irritant of the non-credible journalists

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:15:25 -0000

Oscar, a stock repurchase is often a good move for a company, but if you read my post, you realize I am not analizing the situation and much as quite someone that has facts, and point out my preference for that, rather then the summary judgement of "Jobs dumping stock, (the ship is sinking)".

As for the Gates photo - oh, man, you're putting word in my mouth. You left your sense of humor at home today, I suppose (the smiley in the post could have helped).

Re: The irritant of the non-credible journalists

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:16:46 -0000

wow, too many typos above, this is what I meant:I am not analizing the situation as much as quote someone that has facts,

Re: Three audiences, three different cultures

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:37:35 -0000

I did not even know MS had a product feedback wiki, but I looked at Amazon's ProductWiki, and have long wondered if a wiki is the right application for this.

Wikis are ideal for collaborative, creative activities, where the desired outcome is the synthesis of the collective wisdom, since we get to edit each other's entries.

For product reviews the key should be to preserve the individual comtributions in their original sequence, there is no synthesis in the end. If there is a debate, even better, nobody has to win, the conversation is what matters.

Shouldn't a traditional forum application be better for this situation?

Don't get me wrong, I love working with wikis, but sometimes have the impression that picking a wiki for the "wrong" project gives wikis a bad name. It's important to pick the right tool for every situation.

Re: Quick hits

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:23:44 -0000

Robert, thanks for the link:-) As for those real naked conversations, they will soon make more sense as cheap video phones become available (or videoskype, for that matter) :-)))

Re: Halfway through my blog vacation (change in comment policy)

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:44:55 -0000

“Do you know of other kids of geeks who are doing podcasts or video blogs?” No, but I know a kid who started a company at age 14. He is also an active blogger, consumes/reviews a hundred or so books a year. I guess I can’t call him a kid now, he’s just become 18.
There’s another reason why he belongs to this thread: one of his initiatives along with Chris Yeh is the Silicon Valley Junto, which had an interesting lunch discussion about Happines. Since you appear to be thinking about these things nowadays, you would have been a good addition to our table, and you’d have enjoyed it too…
Damn, I managed to write a comment without linking to myself! – but it felt good:-)
No, I’m too selfish for that, here;s my piece about the “kid”.

Re: Halfway through my blog vacation (change in comment policy)

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:52:38 -0000

Tell me about it - I feel younger just reading him. You need to meet him when in SF next.

Re: Let’s ban “cool” codenames that don’t pass search test

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 01 May 2006 11:40:02 -0000

What do you think of intentionally mispelled common words that in pronunciation describe the product, but are only available as domains and are only unique on search because of the "typo"? Case in point: Vyew. Can such names actually become Brands?

Re: Bad news, my mom is in hospital

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 08 May 2006 20:26:35 -0000

Robert, this may be the one case where I wouldn't trust wikipedia that much, Google - while time-consuming - may turn out better results: medical journals, clinical studies, research papers ..etc. I know it's a lot to sift through, but you actually learn from top doc's vs. the "consensus" stuff at wikipedia. My mom was a cancer-suspect for a good 6 months last year, and we learned a tremendous amount of information. (She is OK now). Wish all the best to your Mom.

Re: Steve Gillmor, you’re invited

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 15:54:58 -0000

And if the "majority" (?) decides what's you're doing is wrong, you'll get a nice implant ...

Re: Heading to the BBC

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:17:17 -0000

Oh, I was about to get in the car thinking you're going to the real BBC :-)

Re: The long goodbye

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:46:50 -0000

Robert, I hope you get to work from home, otherwise you need a helicopter :-)

Re: Sorry, I don’t do Social Networks anymore

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:13:24 -0000

Robert, you are now a celebrity, your blog is THE social network for you. I am not an A-lister, but I find myself using LinkedIn a lot less. I don't really ave time to actively reach out to other people, since I am being found through the blog. But a year ago I found LinkedIn very useful, and I suspect for most people in business it still is.

They should think fast of ways to integrate with blogging platforms.

Re: Garage sale powered by Craigs List (and signs)

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:19:11 -0000

If in Seattle Craigslist brings 3 out of 10, here in the Bay Area it must be 8 out of 10:-) It's the ONLY place worth advertising, other than the signs dislayed at busy corners.

Re: Online wordprocessor updated, but does it have a chance at survival?

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:57:20 -0000

Robert, Zoho is not a financially shaky startup that may or may not be around tomorrow. They are part of Adventnet, a company that grew for 10 years organically (no VC's) from nothing to 500 or so employees and dozens of networking, security...etc. products. That was the "old boring (but moneymaker) product line, and I think they made a smart move to brand all the Office 2.0 stuff as Zoho - fresh, new, fashionable :-)

So I don't think longevity is an issue with them, which will really be important when we decide to trust them with all our online data, not just newly created documents - they will soon have ZohoDrive. While on the subject, they are the only ones with a complete office suite, including the Excel and PowerPoint replacements. Yes, I know, functionally just a subset, yadayada, but you know what I mean .. for the 90% of us who use 10% of the functionality, it's good enough:-) Btw, they also have calendar as part of Virtual Office (yes, the Outlook replacement), Creator, a CRM-package, Polls, and I don't even know what else.

I have not heard of them until half a year or so ago, but they appear to be a formidable force quite bent on being the Web App provider for small businesses and individuals.

Re: Online wordprocessor updated, but does it have a chance at survival?

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:01:19 -0000

I forgot to add, you are right, "Microsoft Office ended up kicking ass" for having all components, but let's just remember the early years, you had Word and Excel not talking to each other, moving data was a major pain... it was not a Suite, just individual applications. (In fact I used Works back then, it was a hands-down winner for me due to the integration...).

Anyway, that's exactly the point the Zoho guys have not missed, first delivering all components of a Suite, then integrating them - these will not be point solutions for long.

Re: Getting moved to Gmail

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:59:38 -0000

Robert, check out : http://www.plugandplayrealestate.com/.

Pay-as-you go, month-to-month space, you can grow (shrink?) as business demands.

Re: The “river” versus “folder” RSS approach

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:18:26 -0000

I don't like the river style in Outlook either, so the new Attensa release does not do anything for me (it may have fixed bugs though).

I do have a trick in Outlook though: I have folders by blogs (authors), but dont' read them directly: set up a search folder for "unread" in the Attensa file, and made this search folder a "favorite", and I keep the original Attensa folder collapsed

This way the favorite always shows the number of new feeds, they are sorted under Blog titles, and when I read somehting, it automatically disappears from the favorite (unread) listings, as if I deleted it. If I want to go back to an already read post, I just pull it up from the main Attensa folder.

Re: I want a wiki…

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:50:53 -0000

Robert, what do you mean by "low cost"? Should be free:-) If it's only for your personal use, any of those mentioned in the previous comments will do.

If you expect interaction from people not necessarily familiar with wikis, Wetpaint is almost your only choice: the Wiki-less Wiki that combines wiki, blog and forum-like features. Nothing else is as simple to use as Wetpaint.

I am about to do what you plan: launch my own wetpaint wiki as a sidekick to the blog and a social experiment.

Re: Zoli’s running a poll on new Technorati

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:58:05 -0000

Toivo, yes, the word is: t-e-c-h-n-o-r-a-t-i :-)

Re: Zoli’s running a poll on new Technorati

Zoli Erdos — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:47:48 -0000

Robert, thanks for the link, I am still getting votes - plan to close it tomorrow, and bring the results back here.

Re: Zoli’s running a poll on new Technorati

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:33:45 -0000

Here are the poll results, based on 347 votes so far. It's still open, I will update the numbers later.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:11:45 -0000

The "influentials" don't have to post on Live Spaces... within minutes their posts are replicated by dozens of bots on Livejournal-based rip-off sites:-(

Re: Google Writelys home new version of online word processor

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:14:29 -0000

Robert, as for the separate icon in the taskbar, I've seen the future ... from Zoho. It's coming soon, keep your eyes open :-)

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:20:53 -0000

Robert, where's the link to an image of Jeremy's card? :-)

Re: Google Writelys home new version of online word processor

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:29:24 -0000

Robert, I sure do .. would you like a preview? :-)

Re: Vista beta testers mad about forced startup sound

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:27:56 -0000

Oh, for God's sake it can't possibly be by design... It's a beta, and with Microsoft's so-called stable products being so buggy, what do you expect? Just be happy it doesn't force an automatic reboot every 30 minutes :-)

Re: Did Time Magazine announce something?

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:50:17 -0000

Same here ... read it very-very early, before the whole world posted about it. For a minute I pondered blogging it, than I realized this will be the mandatory subject on ALL blogs be it the A-list or Z-list :-) After a while there's nothing to add, just parroting each other...

(I could not leave a comment with my blog url, I seem to be on Akismet's blacklist - trying from a Wordpress id now)

Re: Did Time Magazine announce something?

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:19:30 -0000

Oh, no, the second wave starts now ... bloggers back from the weekend, rushing to post the "news".

By now it must be really hard to write anything that's not been said on the subject...

Re: Google Spreadsheets Update

Zoli Erdos — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:27:56 -0000

I guess it boils down to preferences - but from a visual point of view, Google and Zoho are not even in the same league.

Re: State Department To Back ABC Against Russians?

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:09:04 -0000

Freedom of Speech, yeah, right... here in the US we're worrying about "wardrobe malfunctions" but in Russia Freedom of Speech justifies giving a forum to a mass murderer. What hyppocracy!
What would we think if a friendly foreign Media Agency broadcasted an interview with Osama? More here...

Re: State Department To Back ABC Against Russians?

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:09:21 -0000

Gee, the "Butcher of Baghdad" was formally a Head of State at the time, whether we liked it or not. This guy is a terrorist, criminal, with a $10M bounty on his head by the Russian Government.

Re: Cliche of The Week

Zoli Erdos — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:52:15 -0000

A funny coincidence that in my reader your post is followed by this:

http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/07/pajamas-accused-of-being-front-for-bush-administration/

So: Open the kimono... Drop the Pajamas:-)

What a way to start a day!

Re: Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:16:54 -0000

Fred, Great material, thanks. I thought I'd show you an easier way to share your doc's online, using Zoho Writer:

http://snipurl.com/patentdiscussion