Comments on: Everything Online in 10 minutes or less http://blog.zenbe.com/2008/10/14/everything-online-in-10-minutes-or-less/ How to make the most of Zenbe Mail, Lists and Shareflow for your team. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:58:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Inbal http://blog.zenbe.com/2008/10/14/everything-online-in-10-minutes-or-less/comment-page-1/#comment-488 Inbal Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:57:51 +0000 http://blog.zenbe.com/?p=238#comment-488 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?) 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?)

]]> By: marcopenguin http://blog.zenbe.com/2008/10/14/everything-online-in-10-minutes-or-less/comment-page-1/#comment-467 marcopenguin Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:20:58 +0000 http://blog.zenbe.com/?p=238#comment-467 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 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

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