Everything Online in 10 minutes or less
October 14th, 2008 by Peter Stern · comments · http://blog.zenbe.com/fzzznOnline communications have become a way of life for conducting business, and for personal interaction. But that doesn’t mean your computer should take over your life! The constant flow from email, Twitter and social networking sites like Facebook can be overwhelming. It’s not hard to imagine having to spend hours a day sorting through and organizing all your messages, consuming your time at work and home.
With Zenbe, you can do everything you need to in 10 minutes a day. Zenbe is easy to use and streamlined, letting you catch up on multiple accounts in just a glance. Doubtful? On October 7th, SocialPo.st compared Zenbe to Outlook, the heavyweight email service. (You can read the full story here.) In the end, Zenbe walked away victorious, out-scoring Outlook in organizing email and other ways.
Still need convincing? Set up a free Zenbe email account today. Or do a Google blog search and you’ll see what everyone else is saying about us.
There are many good alternatives to outlook, Gmails, Yahoo Mail, Zenbe but to be honest you can’t get corporate america to drop outlook. Microsoft Outlook is the standard email client in the majority of companies.
I have worked for 3 companies and tried to introduce people to alternatives like google’s gmail, Thunderbird, Zimbra, any any other email alternative you can imagine and people always go back to Outlook and Exchange.
You might have a great product but you guys should invest really your time on an Outlook plugin that can integrate with microsoft outlook. You can do some research and make a plugin that can provide all the zenbe services on Microsoft Outlook..
Look at how successful is the Iphone once they introduced the connectivity to Microsoft Exchange.
marco@penguincares.no-ip.org
I witnessed this phenomenon as well – far, far away from “corporate America” – but I don’t think that past alternatives have offered sufficient innovation for anybody to abidingly vest in Outlook; I quite resent the defeatism, actually. A possible explanation for the current state of things is Outlook’s capacity to subsume key purposes of an average computer and, in the comforting form of software, represent one’s identity and interests. It seems that for most people, Outlook embodies the safe study within their incommunicable Windows-home, therefrom any information that is too banally important can be readily supplemented.
For businesses especially, the thought of data travelling all over the internet is nerve-wrecking – people are TERRIFIED of online services’ flexibility when it comes to highly essential parts of their lives, but so far, Zenbe has been doing a great job in creating a solution that can be flexible enough for people not to notice it. In other words, founding a cohesive interface where every part leads to a related section within the system, while maintaining the feeling that core information is always at the user’s disposal, rather than being swallowed up by specific functions (see post about integrating Scribd technology). It’s amazing, what you can do without the monopoly mentality, isn’t it?…
Random idea: specifically business-oriented, ZenPage-like discussion boards, for group project management. (Customisable tabs?)