Web 2.0 is set for spending boom
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008“Web 2.0 is set to be embraced by Enterprise 2.0 as businesses prepare to spend nearly $5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools.”
Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Woosabi Email - the future?
Monday, March 24th, 2008I’ve always seen the inbox area of Woosabi as being key to the product and key to where the product will be driven. This is probably because I’m an engineer and communicate with my clients almost 100% through email - we do face to face meets too which are vital but once we’re working email is the main link really.
Which means my user experience of Woosabi is focused almost totally around the inbox (using jobs and invoices to make sure i get paid 
) . Where Woosabi already has a leg up on solving the ‘overloaded inbox’ problem, is that email (in the Woosabi world) is either connected to a contact or it isn’t (in which case it’s a new contact and Woosabi will ask to create an association or do something with it spamwise).
What this boils down to is with Woosabi that your inbox is usually only a 10 or 20 messages deep, and messages are either marked with reminders to reply (important) or not (not important) - sounds simplistic? It is and it works really well!
At the moment I believe Woosabi email is at least as good as the current webmail offerings (gmail, hotmail, etc) but our architecture means we can do so much more and in particular aggresively attack the problem of spam, volume and response times to email.
The problems and perceptions of which are neatly summed up in this techCruch post
Naked Woo
Friday, March 14th, 2008As we’re now in beta, we’re also doing a little ’spring’ cleaning - and this is what Woosabi looks like when it’s style sheets are removed 
World’s Oldest Profession 2.0
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Living up to my social trend of ‘lowering the tone’…..
“With New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer allegedly caught nibbling the fruits of a high-class, tech-savvy prostitution ring, it’s clearer than ever the world’s oldest profession is doing a fine job of harnessing the latest technology.
The red light site at the center of the Spitzer scandal is EmperorsClubVIP.com. Now offline, it’s described in FBI files as a professional online storefront offering conveniences like e-mail confirmation of appointments, and linking clients and prostitutes across the United States and Europe.”
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/worlds-oldest-p.html
Great example of a product’s beta holding page
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Proven “Relationship Management Engine” - to be tuned to a different “spec”
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008The very welcome and confidence boosting quote from University of Ireland-Galway below regarding woosabi.com’s sister company, InPractice and its Relationship Management software, should be a real fillip for all concerned with the development of woosabi.com Customer Relationship Management Software programme. The successful “Engine” running the InPractice Healthcare & Educational placements throughout the UK and Ireland (soon Sydney + Vancouver??!!??) is the the basis of the the woosabi.com business model for its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) “Engine” software……………………..
…………..Great news for InPractice = Great news for woosabi.com
Following the development and implementation of the application, Lorraine Kent from the National University of Ireland, Galway, said: “The new InPractice online application is fantastic! It was great to see the placement database up and running so quickly . It’s already saving time and confusion. It only took a little while to become proficient with the software and its versatility and ease of use is a joy! Best of all we are able to provide new levels of professionalism for our placement providers and students”
Whole bunch of reasons why Woosabi needs to networked in Silicon Valley
Monday, February 18th, 2008Woosabi: You’ve got mail!
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Wouldn’t it be nice if someone reminded you:
When you’ve got new mail
When you’ve got mail that you’ve not responded to, ones that you’ve told them to remind you about!
Welcome to Woosabi.
When development gets easier: Part 3,141,592
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008This afternoon’s development update brings you a nice little movie so grab a drink and see Woosabi:Email in action.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could…
See and fetch attachments without having to click into an email
Automatically link your email to your contacts
Automatically update your contacts ‘activity’ details when you receive email
Welcome to Woosabi.
UK startup feature: Miniclip.com
Monday, February 11th, 2008Nice article in the Sunday Times (10/02/2008) about the games startup www.miniclip.com. Which has beeing running since 2001 and is now making some serious money from people ‘just playing games’.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article3341684.ece
