links for 2007-09-07
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Did you feel betrayed earlier this week when you found out your $600 iPhone had it’s price slashed to $400 after only two months on the market? Steve Jobs is trying to make you feel better here with a promised $100 coupon for future Apple products. Feel
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Hmm, interesting happenings in the mobile pace in Washington. Will it make it through committees and make a difference?
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I think Stowe Boyd raises a good question in his post. Is the office metaphor tired? With the advent of feeds, information/idea streams, search, and blogs, does the office metaphor fit in an online lifestyle?
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Jeremiah covers the questions asked by organizations and their progression of interest/deployment.
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Comment by Rick Mahn Patrick, thank you for the feedback on that link to Stowe’s post about ContactOffice. While many tech bloggers and mobile web workers are finding new ways of working, I suppose the office format does bring a sense of normalcy to the average worker as they shift from desktop-based apps to web-based apps. I’ll check out ContactOffice, something that I admit I haven’t done. Possibly, I’ll compare it to some others and see how it shapes up.
Regards,
Rick
Hi Rick,
Like I commented on mr. Boyd’s blog:
Maybe it sounds tired, but for the vast majority of users we try to make a solution for (the regular SME’s and Soho’s) an office metaphor still seems to be the best answer. At least that’s what we gather daily from our 350.000 users base.
We do include flow and filter aspects such as the generating of feeds for most of the tools and will increase adding these functionalities in our solution. The difficulty being of striking the right balance between state of the art functionality and offering something most users comprehend.
For example we noticed the day we added RSS feed generation in our application that 95% of our users had no idea what this was and how to use. Still today most of our users don’t use it.
Btw, the screendump Stowe placed on his post is from our old interface. The new Ajax interface is not with a horizontal row of apps. You can check it out at http://beta.contactoffice.com