The quote of the day yesterday:
In a world too full of very ordinary software products, its nice to find one occasionally that just does its job very well, with a feature set that has all the stuff you want and is not cluttered up with stuff you don’t, and perhaps most importantly, an interface that is intuitive and clean so that it can be used without any real learning curve.
There was an unfortunate news report today on CNet (Zoho Writer search bug exposed private documents) about a security problem with our fellow web application ZOHO Writer. Martin LaMonica wrote about a very brief security violation, that was caused by some bad timing in their server indexing and testing process.
There was a post yesterday by Randall Kennedy entitled “Streaming Office: Death knell for Google Apps?http://blogs.zoho.com/in-the-news/streaming-office-vs-true-web-apps/” in which he posited that Microsoft’s new effort to make Office available as a service will obviate the need and opportunity for on-line apps, a category that obviously includes Buzzword.
Kim Cavanaugh and Lee Keller of Palm Breeze CAFE offer three nice video segments, on YouTube as well as TeacherTube. In their reviews, which are targeted at educators, they point out the value and potential of using Buzzword in educational settings – for students submitting assignments, or for teachers to check in on their students’ writing process
Thanks Kim and Lee!