We launched Boomerang for Gmail into a much more open beta last night. The folks at TheNextWeb wrote this review and it just kind of took off from there. We’ve now been featured with some awesome reviews at Vator.TV and Techie Buzz as well. We couldn’t be happier. We originally planned to add 250 users over the past couple days, but we’ve added way more than that, and we really appreciate all the incredible feedback...
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Introduction Project Sikuli, a machine-vision research project from MIT, allows users to write scripts that automate UI-driven tasks. This tool, while very powerful and simple, can cause a number of headaches if you’re not careful. In this post, I’ll talk about some issues you might encounter, as well as how to avoid them. If you’ve never used Sikuli before, you can see demos here, or download the IDE here. 5. Not...
Read MoreWe’ve been seeing an increasing number of corporate customers look into SharePoint. The New York Times has a nice summary on the growth of Microsoft SharePoint that echoes our observation. One of the challenges that users run into is that they expect SharePoint to be the end-all collaboration solution. In reality it’s a bunch of pieces that let you build a collaborative solution. In this blog post, I’m going to show you how you can...
Read MoreShaving is not something I usually think about. Every so often, I would end up clogging the razor and eventually cutting my face. After running into my friend Holly who is a brand manager at Gillette, I learned how to improve my shaving experience with minimal effort. Here’s how it works: Run water over the back of the blades. That’s it. I used to rinse the blade from the front (blades facing me) but it would eventually get clogged....
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Selling into the Enterprise is still a big business. I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week. Besides the excellent booze and hors devours (I consider all free booze excellent) I came away with three lessons. Customers or the C level executives that ultimately foot the bill for a product/service need to see their return on investment quickly. Amy Vickers, VP of Global Enterprise Solutions at Razorfish says that...
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