Yahoo! is the, if not one of, provider of email to the world.
They also have a pretty good calendar and not so bad contact management. A lot of it has to do with people sticking by them because Yahoo! was there early on despite the lack of true innovation in those applications. Now Yahoo! has […]
Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop or why Google has nothing to worry about
August 28th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: AJAX · Bill Gates · Exchange · Google · Microsoft · Outlook · web applications · Web productivity applications · web-based alternatives · Yahoo! · Zimbra · Zimbra Office · Zoho Office
Microsoft LiveMeeting gets a D
August 5th, 2008 No Comments
My company is evaluating Microsoft LiveMeeting as an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Connect (formerly known as Macromedia Breeze). The installation of the plugin is clunky - a plain old download and installation from Firefox, though without a browser restart. The layout is even more confusing than that’s of Acrobat Connect, with menus that open but […]
Tags: Acrobat · Adobe · Livemeeting · Microsoft
Silverlight premature for prime time at mlb.com
April 29th, 2008 No Comments
Having learned my lesson with mlb.com a couple of years ago - giving them a limited-duration, limited-amount, one-time credit card to avoid automatic renewal charges, I decided to again subscribe to their audio broadcast service. I enjoy listening to baseball radio characters from other cities, although the older announcers seem to be fading away with […]
Tags: Boston · data-driven rich Internet applications · embedded media player · Firefox · Internet Explorer · Microsoft · mlb.com · online service · Silverlight