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January 19, 2009Email Center Pro - New Video Introduction LaunchedI work with a great group of people at Palo Alto Software developing a collaborative email application called Email Center Pro. Today, we unveiled a new video that introduces the service - it's featured on emailcenterpro.com. We love the video,it's fantastic, we've watched it dozens of times - it does a great job of communicating the problem Email Center Pro solves. Take a look and tell me what you think. Credit: Principals - Jason Gallic (Email Center Pro Marketing Manager) worked with Christian Martel Atelier Transfert Design to produce the movie. Posted by Cale | Permalink
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Categories: tech.commentary, tech.commentary.web Technorati Tags: email emailcenterpro paloaltosoftware ateliertransfertdesign christianmartel emailoverload emailmanagement customerservice January 07, 2009History of the InternetDo you want to brush up on the history of the Internet? IF(ANSWER=TRUE, "watch this", "don't").History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo. Posted by Cale | Permalink
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Categories: tech.commentary, tech.commentary.web Technorati Tags: InternetHistory Internet DARPA Facebook Users = Country
Scanning my feed stream today I happened across a post by Mark Zuckerberg. If you don't know who Mark is - well, just stop reading this and go back to work. Mark wins the award, IMO, for best answer to the "How many users do you have?" question.
Here's why I think Mark wins the award:
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Categories: tech.commentary, tech.commentary.web Technorati Tags: Facebook Valuation FacebookUsers MarkZuckerberg December 31, 2008Goals for 2009I think it's important to set goals in life. For me personally, writing my goals down makes it a bit harder for me to conveniently forget about them. Personal Goals for 2009:
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Categories: misc Technorati Tags: goals calebruckner goalsetting goalposting personal personalgrowth December 29, 2008Email Center Pro - Collaborative Email
Email Center Pro is a web-based service that makes it easy for business people to collaborate on and manage "shared" email addresses like customerservice@ and info@. I like to say that Email Center Pro turns "shared" email addresses from "money takers" into "money makers" by improving response time and response quality. We officially launched Email Center Pro in April of 2008 and since then we've been using feedback from our customers to rapidly evolve the service. Some of the new features we've added over the last eight months have been documented on the Dead Simple Software blog. I'm a big fan of our recent improvements to the way we display conversation history. I'm really proud of of the way we've evolved the service this year and I think our subscribers appreciate the work we've been putting into the service. I'm looking forward to the continuing evolution of Email Center Pro in 2009. Posted by Cale | Permalink
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Categories: tech.commentary, tech.commentary.mobile, tech.commentary.web Technorati Tags: EmailCenterPro Email Collaboration Mobile SaaS PaloAltoSoftware EmailOverload EmailBankruptsy SMB EmailCollaboration GroupEmail December 23, 2008FriendFeed and Twitter ROI for Robert Scoble?
Scoble responds to the attempted intervention on his blog and on FriendFeed. What do I think? I applaud Scoble for risking his reputation as a blogger to put the wider social network and micro-blogging to the test. I think Scoble has increased his influence in 2008 by establishing himself (and his brand) on FriendFeed and Twitter. I don't think it will take much effort on his part to get his Web 1.0 blog numbers back up again - if that's what he wants to do. I think Arrington is probably jealous that Scoble (essentially a one man shop) has him beat on the FriendFeed and Twitter metrics. Arrington is probably looking at 2009 wondering how he can catch up ; ) Keep up the good work Robert! I think your investment in FriendFeed and Twitter will pay off. Posted by Cale | Permalink
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Categories: tech.commentary, tech.commentary.blogging Technorati Tags: FriendFeed Scoble RobertScoble Social SocialNetworking Arrington TechCrunch MichaelArrington December 19, 2008Azure Services PlatformThe Azure Services Platform includes: Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services. Windows Azure is at the core of the platform. Microsoft describes it like this: Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers. Clear as mud right?To build these applications and services, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, and XML. Windows Azure is an open platform that will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments. .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services complete the tool set - for now. Frankly, I'm having a hard time getting excited about the Azure Services Platform. Why? Because I'm a big fan of AWS . AWS, Amazon's cloud computing services, has a better feature set (IMO) and it just passed its' one year anniversary. Additionally, pricing for AWS is established and a solid SLA is already in place. Nobody knows what the Azure Services Platform is going to cost and there are a lot of other details that still need to be flushed out. The Azure Services Platform is currently only available as a CTP. On top of all of that, Windows Azure is more like the Mosso service than it is Amazon's EC2. In my experience a heavily abstracted server architecture (Windows Azure) presents a lot of challenges given the tools available to the majority of developers today. We've benefited on a number of occasions from the low level access we have to our EC2 instances. You might not need it, but if you do, it's really nice to have. I'm glad to see Microsoft entering the cloud computing space because deep pockets are required to compete and I think we'll all benefit from more competition in this space. It's just hard to get excited about because it isn't all that innovative. Will the Azure Services Platform flame out? Sources: Azure Services Platform David Aiken on Azure Wikipedia - Azure Services Platform TechCrunchIT - Azure: Video Posted by Cale | Permalink
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Categories: tech.commentary, tech.commentary.microsoft Technorati Tags: microsoft windowsazure azureservicesplatform aws amazonwebservices ec2 December 04, 2008Jason's 120% SolutionIf you aren't already subscribed to Jason Calacanis' mailing list - subscribe. Jason is smart guy with a lot to say and he gets things done. Jason replaced his blog, for the most part, with a mailing list a while back - I'm a subscriber and reader. Jason's email today - The 120% solution - talks about the economic crisis, why it happened, and suggests possible solutions. Check it out - it's a great read.Posted by Cale | Permalink
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Categories: business.commentary, tech.commentary, world.commentary Technorati Tags: the120%solution jasoncalacanis December 03, 2008Can the Hummer Club save the Hummer?I drive a 100 Series Toyota Land Cruiser so I can't poke fun at the Hummer crowd for driving vehicles with poor fuel economy. Fuel economy aside, there are plenty of other reasons to poke fun at the Hummer crowd. Colbert does a pretty good job in the video I've included below. GM is currently reviewing the Hummer brand and it's likely that it will become a casualty of the economic crisis. I for one won't miss the Hummer. To be clear, I don't have a problem with the HMMWVs used by the military that started all of this - a Hummer isn't the same thing as a HMMWV and a HMMWV doesn't belong on public roads. Posted by Cale | Permalink
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Categories: world.commentary Technorati Tags: hummer gm colbert fueleconomy November 26, 2008Origins of BootstrappingThe Art of Bootstrapping, over on American Express OPEN Forum, is worth reading and appropriate for the times. I learned a little about the origins of the term Bootstrapping as well.The term bootstrapping comes from the German legend of Baron von Munchhausen pulling himself out of the sea by pulling on his own bootstraps. That’s essentially what you’ll have to do, too. Posted by Cale | Permalink
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