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Google Releases Zoho Mail with Offline SupportOctober 10

Yes, you read it right: the first announcement of Zoho Mail’s general availability, with Google Gears-based offline support did not come from Zoho, but from the Google Gears team, which released this video discussing Zoho’a use of Google Gears, synchronization, the Marketplace and  a lot more a bit prematurely:

Somewhat used to it (see TechCrunch Releases New Zoho Service: Invoice) the Zoho folks decided to play along and released their own announcement.

This announcement somewhat symbolizes the interesting dynamics between Zoho and Google: competitors, yet collaborators.   ReadWriteWeb is probably right:

But also Google probably sees Zoho less as a competitor at this point (even though Zoho does compete directly against Google Apps)

No, the Sky is Not Falling in Startup-landOctober 9

Lot’s of noise today, RIP Good Times,  IT’S OVER! POP GOES THE BUBBLE, Sorry, Startups: Party’s Over etc.   I think the panic is overdone.

Sure, a lot of startups will fall – and some of them would have done so without a recession anyway. Times are officially tough, but the truly strong businesses will survive, and some of the Web 2.0 whiz-kid baby-CEOs  will come out of this as battle-hardened Entrepreneurs.

Talk about Executives… some can wreck the business on their own, they don’t need a crisis: see Entellium wrecked by fraud.

Finally some startups think they can keep on re-architecting forever – see NetBooks, ViewPath (the latter just came out with a new product though.)  Good luck to them… wonder if their market runs away…

These are some of the thoughts I’m discussing on CloudAve today – read more here.  Even better, grab the feed here.

The World According to AmericansOctober 7

A little laugh before Debate Night - rediscovered on Dennis Howlett’s re-launched Dinglebum.

P.S. Apologies for the obsolete map.  It clearly should have been updated to indicate Afghanistan as our neighbors.  Oh, and let’s not forget about Czechoslovakia.

Breaking: McCain Upgrades VP CandidateOctober 3

This just in: Senator McCain traded in Sarah Palin for an equally qualified newer model:

Am I Really So Sexy? C’mon…October 3

Well, thank you all for finding me so sexy (blush, blush) that even my face pic is considered x-rated.  From somebody else I might even consider it a compliment, but it comes from  Gravatar, an “Automattic Joint”:

Which is why my gravatar does not show on Wordpress blogs.  I’ve never thought one day I’d be caught by porn-filters.