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Comment on The Personal Productivity Holy Grail by Lorinda Otomo

Lorinda Otomo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:45:59 +0000

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Comment on Why Aspiring Entrepreneurs Should Stop Planning and Start Doing by Brett Owens

Brett Owens — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:38:56 +0000

Thanks Vikram, great to hear from you!

Comment on Why Aspiring Entrepreneurs Should Stop Planning and Start Doing by Vikram Venkatasubramanian

Vikram Venkatasubramanian — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:29:59 +0000

Very glad to hear that Chrometa is seeing traction and good to read the team’s blog. “Perfection is the enemy of good enough” is interestingly, also what my co-founder keeps repeating. Wish you the best with the product.

Comment on Why Aspiring Entrepreneurs Should Stop Planning and Start Doing by Brett Owens

Brett Owens — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:14:41 +0000

Yes exactly – at some point, “good enough is good enough”.

Plus it’s very difficult or impossible to roll out something perfect on the first attempt, try as we might!

Comment on Why Aspiring Entrepreneurs Should Stop Planning and Start Doing by Maura Deluca

Maura Deluca — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:49:52 +0000

Is this similar advice as “Perfect is the enemy of the good?” Better to try a bunch of things, and stick with what works, than it is to try to perfect something specifically and worse — wait for it to be perfect before you try to launch/roll it out?

I think the fail fast message is one that we’re afraid of, but the best way to get to the successes.

Comment on The Personal Productivity Holy Grail by britt borden

britt borden — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:05:53 +0000

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Comment on Google Apps vs. Exchange Server: and the winner goes to… by JP Ren

JP Ren — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:30:56 +0000

Thanks Jim. What Jim’s referring to here is a “universal address book”, where private contacts for all users are automatically synced with the server — so everyone has access to everyone else’s contacts.

Exchange Server delivers this “universal address book” type functionality through a separate service called Active Directory. Active Directory is basically Microsoft’s proprietary server-based address book similar to LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), which is the industry standard. Outlook also supports LDAP.

Google Apps does have a feature called “Contact Sharing”. Warning: this is NOT THE SAME as universal contacts. “Contact Sharing” enables the sharing of all internal contact entries (i.e. contact info for everyone within your organization). More details here: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47926

So far, Google Apps’ answer to the universal contacts question has been creating a link to your company’s existing LDAP servers. This isn’t elegant, because most companies turn to Google Apps because they don’t want to run any email or contact related servers.

As Jim mentioned, there isn’t an easy way to achieve the universal address book right now — but Google should already be working on this, as It’s probably the last major hurdle preventing some large corporations from switching to Google Apps.

Comment on Google Apps vs. Exchange Server: and the winner goes to… by Jim

Jim — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:36:02 +0000

Google’s lack of a functional Shared Contacts service is a deal breaker. I have a small business and have been migrating a small business with 8 users from exchange to google apps. Not having a universal contacts list is killing the plan. I am not excited about being gouged for $100s from some opportunistic developers offering third party addons for what should be CORE functionality. The Goggle Rep assured me they supported this function…bull. Anything other than having a central and shareable management of these contacts seems curiously absent from google.

Comment on Google Apps vs. Exchange Server: and the winner goes to… by Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:11:52 +0000

Good analysis JP. The cloud is giving us lawyers some interesting new and complicated options.

Comment on Google Apps vs. Exchange Server: and the winner goes to… by JP Ren

JP Ren — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:15:35 +0000

Pete, totally agree that Google wins out in terms of breadth of features. I neglected to mention Google Talk, Sites, etc as those weren’t “must-haves” features when we were choosing an email service.

Most companies, for better or for worse, are still running on Outlook (even if they have Google Apps serving up the back end). I think Google Talk, Sites, etc will be more compelling for this audience as it makes its way into everyday workflow at the workplace.