Zoho brings online integration to Microsoft Office

Nov 30, 2006 | blog

Zoho Web 2.0 Online Office SuiteWow, great news for those of you who have embraced the modern world of online applications and document storage!

Zoho has interoperability with Microsoft Office via a downloadable plugin that allows Office users to save Word & Excel documents directly to their Zoho account. This functionality helps blur the line between remotely hosted and local applications.

“People are asking for this,” Vegesna said. “Currently they have to go to Zoho.com, login, and upload documents. We have them doing this an average of five times per day. This will let them go straight to Zoho without having to go to Zoho.com, upload, etc.”

Zoho is also opening its API’s so that online storage providers could tap into the Zoho engine and provide more seamless integration of storage options.

I’ve been using Zoho (and Google Docs & Spreadsheets) for most of 2006. There are definite differences between the offerings, but Zoho has made the most progress towards an integrated feature-rich office suite. By offering the ability to upload/download documents directly to your Zoho account – their product becomes even more useful and productive.

This new feature is compatible with Office 2000, 2003, and 2007 by the way.

Via: TechCrunch – The Real Office Live: Zoho Bridges Online And Offline Office App’s

Stephen Hawking’s Next Goal: Space Travel

Nov 30, 2006 | blog

I always love hearing things from Stephen Hawking.  He’s always got an interesting point of view and keeps his descriptions simple for us mere mortals.  His one great wish seems to be experiencing space travel.

The scientist revealed he also wanted to try out space travel himself, albeit by more conventional means.

“I am not afraid of death but I’m in no hurry to die. My next goal is to go into space,” said Hawking.

And referring to the British entrepreneur and Virgin tycoon who has set up a travel agency to take private individuals on space flights from 2008, Hawking said: “Maybe Richard Branson will help me.”

There is quite a bit in the interview with BBC covered by ExtremeTech.

Via: ExtremeTech – Stephen Hawking’s Next Goal: Space Travel

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Review of Feedburner by Aaron Brazell

Nov 29, 2006 | blog

Feedburner RSS ATOM Web Feed If you’ve been interested in how well Feedburner handles serving feeds, you may be interested in Aaron Brazell’s review.

His perspective in this review, is from the point of view of a blog network – b5media – which pumps several dozen feeds through the service.  Because of the number and variety of feeds, the needs are unique, there are some items on his “wish list” that just don’t apply to individual bloggers.

Goods stuff Aaron!

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