Posted in Apple, CRM, Google, SugarCRM on Sep 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
A lot of my more gadget-happy friends are more than excited about the G1 phone…they have been waiting, and waiting…and waiting some more for an actual consumer product based on Android.
I think most of the hype or anticipation has been because for some, seeing Apple “fail” or get bested is something they want to see. […]
Posted in Google, Open Source, SaaS on Sep 4th, 2008 No Comments »
With Google’s recent announcement of Chrome, it will be interesting to see the fallout that the new Web-based browser will have on the SaaS market and cloud computing in general. Being open source, it has the potential to improve the customer’s cloud computing experiences, yet it also represents yet another Web browser that application providers […]
Posted in Google, Open Source on Sep 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Google just released its take on the browser with Chrome this week. Google has done an amazing job of re-inventing web search and email, and has had limited success in other areas. And the same issues that made its other releases not quite enterprise friendly are attached to Chrome as well.
What I’m talking about are […]
Posted in Application Design, Google, SaaS on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Lately there has been a lot of talk about how the consumer web has set a great standard for usability, robust features and reliability that needs to be replicated in the business world.
OK, but what does that say when a property like Gmail - which people tend to associate with a sort of high standard […]
Posted in Application Design, Google, Open Source, SaaS on Jun 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
So Facebook has announced that they’re opening up part of their platform and making it open source. It’s certainly a reaction to Google’s recent success with OpenSocial, and should make it easier for developers to add applications to the Facebook platform.
That said, I’ve always had mixed feeling about Facebook, particularly in terms of their ability […]
Posted in CRM, Google, salesforce.com on Apr 14th, 2008 No Comments »
As I’m sure many of you have already noted, Salesforce.com and Google today announced that Google will now offer its Google Apps as part of the Salesforce.com platform.
Well isn’t that just riveting.
With all due honesty, who uses Google Apps? Google text messaging and Maps…sure, but who leverages Google’s spreadsheets, text editor, and e-mail tools on […]
Posted in Google, Mobile, Open Source on Apr 7th, 2008 No Comments »
A lot of reports are coming out that Google’s Android open source mobile operating platform is more than ready for prime time, with some heavy hitters like HTC quietly announcing phones that will run on Android.
I like that Google is looking to be disruptive - and open up the mobile market. But in the U.S. […]
Posted in Google on Apr 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Google announced today that it is selling Performics, the search engine marketing arm of DoubleClick, which the company closed the acquisition of in March.
In a blog on Google’s Web site, Tom Phillips, director of DoubleClick integration, stated:
“Since we closed the acquisition of DoubleClick on March 11, we’ve been immersed in integration planning for each of […]
Posted in Google, Microsoft on Mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Google continues to extend its lead in the search market, as the results from comScore’s latest report show: Yahoo’s shares slipped from 22.2 percent to 21.6 while Microsoft’s fell to 9.6 percent from 9.8. Google’s rose to 59.2 percent.
It’s bad enough that Microsoft is looking to purchase Yahoo purely for market share (a move I […]
Posted in Application Design, Google on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I just wanted to weigh in for a second on Facebook, and its luring Sheryl Sandberg away from Google.
I think it’s a good idea. I have a lot of respect for what Zuckerberg has done so far. But Facebook is at a very critical point - and as a CRM analyst at heart, I think […]
