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Saas Integration: Trends & Players

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 »

web apps, web services   

Ideas to Improve Software Documentation, Raise Productivity of Mere Mortals

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 »

best & worst practices, building online products   

Microsoft Outlook As A Platform, Take 2: From the Desktop to the Cloud

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 »

software, web apps   
SSO signup

Sign Up Using SSO, Done Right

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 »

best & worst practices, user experience, web apps, web services   

Airtable Product Updates Showcase their Own Product

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 »

best & worst practices   

Competitive SEO Guerilla: Hello Uno!

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 »

meta-tagging the universe, sales & marketing   

Google, Click Killer Linguist

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 »

meta-tagging the universe, search engines   

Customizing Gmail & Gsuite for Productivity

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:

cool tools   

Search Advertising: Not Always On Point, On Purpose

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 »

search engines   

Cloud Toolbox: There’s A Micro-SaaS For That

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 »

cool tools, web apps, web services   

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