Note: entry originally published in November 2014, maintained regularly since then. By definition Software as a Service is easier to roll out than on-premises software because you don’t have to install… Read more »
The explosion in the quantity and quality of both commercial APIs and open source projects is a huge enabler for digital start-ups and small businesses. Instead of painfully rolling your… Read more »
This 2004 entry was updated from the 2016-18 vantage point. If there’s an area where the shift from client-server to the cloud is most dramatic, this is it! Keep reading… Read more »
Kudos to SurveyMonkey for their very clear, user-friendly sign up form (pictured above) that lets you sign up with your existing Google, Facebook,or Microsoft credentials. They’re far from the only SaaS… Read more »
Smart move by Airtable to use their own product to list their updates, not just as an embed in this page, but also as a fully usable database that people… Read more »
The screenshot above looks pretty harmless, doesn’t it? It’s just a list of tags, and it’s just plain text at the bottom of a support page. Now, not quite anyone’s support site,… Read more »
Similar to how googling for “jazz albums 1965” returns a stripe of album covers – along with similar queries for books, movies, or video games – the simple “minute” search query reveals how… Read more »
As an avid Inbox Zero practitioner who likes to find information very quickly, I’ve tinkered quite a bit with my Gmail and Gdrive setup. Here’s what I currently use:
I just saw this ad while googling for Salesforce Chatter adoption vs. the increasingly ubiquitous Slack, and was stumped for a second before realizing what was going on, so I… Read more »
Here are a few tools that I was surprised even existed when I first ran into them because they address pretty niche needs, but it’s awesome that they do. I… Read more »