Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Zoho Notebook: Another Great Leap For the Web2.0 World

I came home from a nice break in a tropical location to get smacked in the fact by two crazy facts of life. For one, there's still some form of freezing precipitation falling in my corner of the world (but I can't quite call it snow). Ouch. The second one: Google is not coming out with as many cool things as they used to. At least when compared to companies like Zoho.

I can deal with that, as long as the G-powers that be don't pull the plug on this blog for pointing that out. The coolest new invention from the Zoho labs: Zoho Notebook. The goal of Zoho Notebook: allow the user (you) to put any content (text, audio, images, video, etc) anywhere on a page, and then share that with others anyway you want.

Don't most web pages allow you to do that? Sure - if you know the code. Zoho Notebook gives it all to you in a nice user interface. And - the best part is - you can record audio or video straight from your computer into your page. Or upload a pre-recorded file. All you need is a microphone or a video camera hooked up to your computer.

Also, they allow you import content from Zoho Writer, Sheets, and Show (think Word Doc, Excel, and PowerPoint online). All with Skype integration. Nice. Here's a quick overview video of some of the features:



I was noticing that Zoho also has online virtual office, chat, wikis, planers, etc. I am slowly wondering if I need to switch to Zoho from Google for some of this stuff. Come on Google - get on the ball and buy this stuff!

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