Office Revolution Web 2.0

Open Source vendor Zimbra has recently released the Zimbra Collaboration Suite 3.0. This suite of applications includes a mail client and a calendar. The interface is similar to that of other rich mail suites like Evolution and Outlook. Built on AJAX, the application feels like a locally installed application. The application is built around a server-client technology. It is not mandatory to use the richt webbased client - the server [...] Read More


Zimbra too slow for older hardware Web 2.0

Richard MacManus on ZDNet reports about ZDNet readers commenting on his first review of the Zimbra Office Suite saying the suite is way too heavy for older hardware. Especially the fact that a comparison between GMail and Zimbra on older hardware reveals this very clearly is somewhat worrying : "the GUI is way too slow: it takes over 4 minutes to load on my old Pentium III, while GMail loads in [...] Read More


*Breaking news* : Zimbra aquired by Yahoo Web 2.0

Zimbra is one of these companies that started not too long ago, is very innovative and has achieved a steady market position with customers that are confident in the service Zimbra offers. And they should. In fact, Zimbra offers a service that is good enough for Yahoo to acquire, and Yahoo just did that. Zimbra operates in the same field as Google Docs&Spreadsheets and Zoho.Yahoo will announce the acquisition of [...] Read More


Zimbra makes its presence felt in Yahoo! Calendar Java Entrepreneur

It was almost a year ago yahoo took over Zimbra but it took Yahoo more than a decade to update its calendar service and for this purpose it deployed the technology of Zimbra. The latest Yahoo Calendar is based on the Zimbra platform which deploys Ajax functionality in its online calendars and iCalendar and CalDAV3 standards. This new Calendar from Yahoo is interoperable with other calendar services such as Apple, AOL, [...] Read More


Yahoo! hops onto Zimbra Java Entrepreneur

Zimbra which claims itself to be a leader in open source messaging and collaboration has been acquired by Yahoo for $350 million. With its rich AJAX-based e-mail, calendar, and contact management features for both online and offline use Zimbra has been credited with creation of Zimlets which can be used for offering updated information inside the email. As per Yahoo this expansion would help them to create a stronger presence [...] Read More

Yahoo! Voice launched today Web 2.0

Yahoo! launched today Yahoo! Voice, its VoIP service, which comes bundled with the new version of Yahoo! Messenger (still beta, but that's a thing we are completely used to these days). Yahoo! voice allows you to phone from your PC to any country in the world (see rates). UK, France and USA users can also receive calls and have a free voicemail service. By the way, it's only available for Windows.. [...] Read More


Yahoo! Bookmarks launched Web 2.0

Yesterday I talked about Pocket, comparing it to del.icio.us, and tried it out. Today there's a new competitor : Yahoo! Boorkmarks. I can't emphasize the usefulness of online bookmarking tools. I move around a lot, so I need as much as I can online. If you choose to use Yahoo! for your mail, documents, webpages and such, it seem logical to use Yahoo! Bookmarks for your bookmarks. That way, you only [...] Read More


Yahoo 360 shuts down Web 2.0

Sometimes I cannot help but smile. yahoo's 360 has always been a bit different - part blog, part tagging software and personal sharing "my first homepage" -like. I hated it from the beginning as it had too many options and yet too many limitations. Yahoo 360 disappears from our radar today - it has been shut down without anyone noticing, Yahoo claims that the company is transitioning 360 into a [...] Read More


AT&T and Yahoo Launch Co-Branded Version of Yahoo Messenger with Voice The VoIP Weblog

AT & T and Yahoo have come up with a co branded version of Yahoo Messenger with Voice for AT&T Yahoo High Speed Internet subscribers and Yahoo users in AT&T's traditional thirteen state local service area in America. The companies have also expanded their long term association with an agreement that AT&T companies globally would be Yahoo's preferred network termination provider for the PC based calling services in the Yahoo [...] Read More


New Custom Plug-Ins with Yahoo Messenger with Voice The VoIP Weblog

Today Yahoo! Messenger with Voice would be introducing customer plug in features and would allow developers to custom made applications. Plug-in applications would be there for Yahoo! 360, Amazon.com and eBay. One might also see integration with Flickr and other popular community sites as well as through developer created plug-ins. The new soundboard feature enables people to add short sound effects into their conversations along with birds chirping and audience [...] Read More

Virtual worlds are no longer hot news items. They've been replaced by Twitter and Facebook - in the news at least. But they haven't gone away.

Inc.com recently pointed out that prototyping products and having virtual meetings or trade fairs are popular applications for businesses in virtual worlds like Second Life.

It's a great place to do business, too. After all, we just pionted out a few days ago that the economy of Second Life grew by 65% last year. Virtual worlds are still a great place to build brand recognition and market products.

Let's hope that Second Life is an economic indicator for the real world.

VentureBeat says that the economy of Second Life (the leading virtual world in cyberspace) grew a whopping 65% in 2009. Compare that to the hottest economy in the real word, China, where economic growth at the moment is not quite 11 percent.

The total size of the Second Life economy grew 65 percent in 2009 to $567 million. By the company's own estimate, that amounts to about 25 percent of the entire U.S. virtual goods market.

Second LIfe has an impact on the real world because its money can be converted into US dollars (and other currencies). Second Lifers moved $55 million from the virtual world back into real money last year.

Can you strike it rich in Second Life? Acording to VentureBeat, the top 25 residents of Second Life together earned about $12 million last year. That's an average of about half a million each.

Mashable has a great piece at the moment if you've ever thought about adding captions to your YouTube videos.

Evidently there are two easy options at the moment. You can use Google's CaptionTube app or you can upload a transcript and have Google's speech recognition software put it into the video automatically. CaptionTube is especially useful if you want to translate your video into another language and create subtitle.

The Mashable article has a good step-by-step walk through on how to use CaptionTube.