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Google Office Mania. Slow News Month?

More blog entries on this subject than any other yesterday, with 1811 posts and counting, according to Technorati. Back in reality, here’s what alexaholic has to say about four of the best-known hosted office products versus one RSS aggregator service. Bear in mind that only 9% of US employees even know what RSS is.

alexa website statistics by alexaholic

Update: This graph doesn’t seem to work on Safari on an Mac, it seems. It shows there’s a lot more interest in bloglines than zoho, jot, 37Signals and even salesforce.com.

Now call me a narrow-minded sceptic if you will, but I’m not entirely convinced that we’re on the cusp of a computing revolution just yet.

P.S. Marc Fawzi from Evolving Trends is looking for a top-notch software developer to join his team in Silicon Valley. For some reason, he thought such people might come here.

29 August 2006
Tags: google, SaaS, web 2.0

4 Comments

David Cruickshank

29/Aug/2006

Yup, far too much about a relative non-event - agreed.

Not sure your alexaholic graph is particularly relevant though. Which is a better business metric, page views or revenue? I think Salesforce.com might do rather well against Bloglines if you use the more old-fashioned and currently underrated evaluation technique of financial performance. Doh, I hear the whole of Silicon Valley collectively sigh.