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AUGUST 3, 2009

There was the usual cogent presentation by Brian Solis on the future of PR in which he implored us to get beyond the echo chamber of Silicon Valley and Techmeme and focus on staying on the radar screen of real America.

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MAY 19, 2010

Those companies are already going to be crushed by Skype’s new screen sharing capabilities. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. I don’t like the idea of taking on WebEx or GotoMeeting. File sharing? Enterprise collaboration?

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MAY 22, 2010

Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). Yes, with a “B.&# And soon that will include screen sharing.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. But the cloud-based stuff that we use every day as consumers (websites, Twitter, Facebook, Zynga) or as businesses (dropbox, gmail, Yammer, GoToMeeting) all rely on business logic created by application companies.

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