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Michael Arrington’s announcement of Google’s plans to offer up a new set of APIs on November 5 has opened up a firestorm of discussion on the web. Part of the discussion is around semantics, which gives me quite the chuckle. Who cares if it is a social network or a social graph (although I did [...]

We have web office related news from Yahoo, Google, and … IBM (yes, you read that right). If you throw Zoho into the mix, the space is getting crowded fast.

It’s been talked about for a long time, but the (renamed) Google Docs is finally complete with the release of the presentation app.

TechBizMedia and others have reported about Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra, the open source enterprise messaging company. Zimbra has made collaboration easier with their suite containing email, contacts, shared calendar, VOIP, online document authoring, etc. Zimbra already boasts of powerful clients like Comcast, educational institutions, etc. Yahoo has already teamed up with IBM to develop an [...]

TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo has acquired the office suite Zimbra for $35MM in cash. If this news is confirmed, its huge. Yahoo is laying down the gauntlet here, to Microsoft, and especially to Google.
Is this a smart decision? Should Yahoo play Google’s game again? The web office space is still [...]

I am a big fan of SplashCast, and not just because the company is based a couple of hours down south in Portland. The company has been on a roll lately, beginning with participation in the launch of the Facebook platform earlier this year. Recently, SplashCast released a new and improved player [...]

In response to Michael Arrington’s post at Techcrunch about the exclusivity of certain walled communities, Bernard Lunn of Read/Write Web is arguing that such an exclusivity is needed to establish the trust. I completely disagree with Bernard that you need a gated community to establish trust. You don’t have to be exclusive to have a [...]

There is a meme going on after Noam Cohen wrote an article on NY Times highlighting some of the moral claims about online advertising. I don’t buy the moral claims about ad blocking software like Adblock Plus. I am not against online advertising. I do understand that it is one of the major reasons why [...]

For over a month, I have been sitting on a post about people search, wondering how to tie some of those thoughts together. The news that Facebook was going to open up itself up to search (see Techmeme discussion) makes me glad I waited, although the following has only passing resemblance to the original [...]

Zoho, the most active Web 2.0 company around, is considered as a direct competitor to Google for quite some time now. Today, Zoho will announce Zoho Business at Office 2.0 conference. Essentially, they are categorizing their services into Zoho Personal and Zoho Business. Zoho Personal is same as their current offerings. It includes all [...]