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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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

We saw a major Skype outage that kept consumers without an important communication tool for more than 24 hours. The blogosphere had its own reaction to this outage. There were rumors about Russian hackers compromising the Skype service, which was promptly denied by Skype. This outage definitely brings into focus the question about whether VOIP [...]

Paul Kedrosky points to a Financial Times piece on bloggers and niche job boards. A niche job board was something that I first saw by way of 37signals, but very soon a number of influential bloggers had started their own job boards with the help of companies like SimplyHired and JobThread.

I have blogged frequently about Lijit on my life science blog. Lijit is a Colorado based company and recently raised a round of funding. Recently I got a chance to meet Stan James, the CTO of Lijit, and Andy Stanberry, the UI guru at the company, at Gnomedex where we got a chance [...]

Microsoft is going to offer web based office applications. Microsoft, a strong leader in the traditional office space, was not talking about their plans in the web based office space. Their silence allowed companies like Google, Zoho, Thinkfree, etc. to get a very good market share in this space. In fact, the success of Google [...]

The blogosphere is full of speculations on whether some big company will acquire Facebook or not. Some people are arguing that Facebook will stay independent and move towards an IPO. Whatever be the case, one thing is becoming clear. The chances of Facebook going towards Microsoft is quite unlikely after the recent acquisition of Parakey. [...]