Small-and medium-sized businesses are the hot target markets right now, whether it’s voice and broadband or web services. The biggest opportunity, however, seems to be in hosted email, as Yahoo’s (YHOO) $350 million bet on Zimbra and Google’s (GOOG) Apps initiative demonstrate. Rackspace, a… Read More »
Archive for September, 2007
A Long Wait is Over – The Chandler project, which has been building an open-source PIM with group collaboration and GTD baked in for quite a while, is out with their preview release, which they say is stable enough to trust your data to. Looks ambitious… Read More »
A few posts back I made the point that many computer users, including lots of web workers, reach for Microsoft Excel to do much more than just standard spreadsheets. Many people reach for it as their preferred way to produce charts and graphics, or do graphical… Read More »
As you enter a career of being an independent web worker, you can hardly avoid negotiating contracts with potential clients. Inevitably, the first questions that will come up are “how much is this going to cost?” and the closely-related “how long is it going to take?”… Read More »
Recently Get Rich Slowly did an excellent article on Getting to Now: How to Beat the Procrastination Habit, with good tips on doing things immediately instead of putting them off. While the article doesn’t address this directly, the Habit of Now is one of the most important… Read More »
Although many people swear by the Mozilla Firefox browser, there are still armies of web workers who use Internet Explorer, it retains leading market share, and many organizations are standardized on it. If you sit in front of Internet Explorer all day, using some of the… Read More »
If you asked web workers what protocols we couldn’t do without, RSS would be right up there with HTTP and SMTP. Having the information that we want to see come to us, instead of having to go out on the web and hunt it down, is… Read More »
