Archive for September, 2007
Segmenting web platforms
Web as a platform is an interesting topic for most people in the software industry. Marc Andreessen (Ning) recently made an attempt to classify this platform in his post The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet. In the follow up analysis posted by Josh on ReadWriteWeb Platforms on the Web are Platforms [...]
Yahoo! acquires Zimbra
Today Yahoo has announced acquisition of Zimbra. This is great news. Zimbra was a brilliant team with very good product. With Yahoo owning Zimbra, the product will have greater reach. Zimbra had an offline client, it will be interesting to see if Yahoo mail will have an offline version. Offline and desktop-web integration technologies will [...]
Desktop integration increases user interaction
An active internet user may voluntarily visit up to 15 websites like email, social networks, shopping sites, online banking etc. However, the number of services and interests of a person is much higher. Typically, what gets attention and a visit to a web site is the current interest (momentary). The reason why it is [...]
