Zoho is giving all big cats a run for their money in the online SaaS world. This being said, all offerings from Zoho are so perfect and in unison that you would be amazed at the depth at which the Zoho developers have written their applications.

I have played around with almost all their apps, the simplicity and the UI approach to each of their apps makes every person wonder, why do the other big cats just copy them. The big cats cannot come with their own genuine design so it is easy for them (BIG CATS) to just copy Zoho.

A great collection of applications, and this is what I call, one location one data one user.

Check out the stuff.

Zenbe includes a calendar, task lists, an address book, even your Facebook friends, at a glance.
All your email addresses in one place.

Zenbe lets you send, search, organize, and share your email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! Mail, or any email address.
Ad-free email.

Zenbe is free, but we don’t show ads with your email.

No ads, that we will have to see as time goes by. What the business model is also would be known soon, as far as I go, the business model is one now. All the companies need your data, they want to be your data bank. All your data is safe in one place.

Now this is where the human touch comes in handy, there is only so much machines and algorithms can do. Sometimes the touch of humans is always needed. This would be a great network if all works as planned.

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Has critics as well as fan following data. It will be fun to watch it grow, to be finally able to say if this is just another Cinema or Business that has been created for the privileged few on the top echelons of the society.

Does the common man enjoy cricket as they used to. Read the stories atOnIPL.

Now you might be wondering what this blog is doing in the posts here. It is interesting, we like to broadcast helpful stuff people write for other people. These posts in this blog OBIEE DIAGNOSTICS, are from a pro who has been working in the Business Intelligence world for a long time. His aim to write these tips are to help others in his field with time saving methodologies or error fighting tools.

What has been written in these blogs are straight from the horses mouth, that is a real person, having a real problem and solving it with a real solution. Where else would you find these tips for OBIEE, no where but here. Check them out if you are into the Oracle Business Intelligence world.

We all like Google, because of its innovative ideas and its endless money bin. Now Salesforce on the other hand, is a web CRM product, has its bit of competitors and to add it all is almost on the verge of market reach due to saturation.

Now here comes the savior, Google launches its App Engine, kinda like a web application host. What does that have to do with Salesforce, well SF also is hosted CRM application, doesn’t it seem similar now. More on the scoop, Google likes everything to be on the web, so it is but obvious that Google will own all the data if all the applications it hosts are on the web. Salesforce already owns a lot of data, so when Google says its partnering with Salesforce to deliver its documents, gmail, apps through Salesforce, what do you hear….ding….dong…. continued.

Microsoft made a bid for Yahoo, Yahoo is not giving in, it ties up with Google for some search methodologies, only a small percent. Then Yahoo goes to AOL owned by Time Warner, things are still in the air.

Coming back to Google and Saleforce, both of them anounce the Google apps stuff for Salesforce on Friday April 11th. The same day the google apps tab is already in Saleforce. Quick and good work!!!. I am not finished yet, few months ago Marc Benioff of SF was out to try and sell SF out to anybody who would buy at a three fold price of the companies value. Nobody bought into it, now we see Google with its interest and its apps already in SF, ding….dong….. what to you see. Let me not make any wild guesses, but for all of you, we would not be surprised if Google announces the acquisition of Salesforce, it is truly in the making.

You might wonder why I wrote about Microsoft and Yahoo above, well with all these M&A’s (mergers and acquistions) going on I did not want that be left untouched. Talk about Blockbuster and CircuitCity, what a combination, thats for later….

The times are not far as I can see, that we would be sending our checks to one company, the same old days of Monopolies are coming back, hang tight.

An all in one place page. Good for people with specific interests. As I had spoken to the team at GotFirst, they will be introducing customizations in the coming releases.

Have fun GotFirst

Again a good start page for India centric news and gossips. Fun to read when you want to just lighten up your day.

Read on Dhoondde. Also has various flavors in these following names Dhoond.de and Dhund.de

Deyey is a online applications and sharing platform. This is an interesting online application tool. They have a cool namecard designer, you could really come up with awesome designs.

Yacapaca for Teachers. Create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more. Discover modify and share assessments
Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks. Mark automatically Analyse with tools that improve your teaching.
You have to use it to really understand what it does, but does seem like and interesting concept.

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