While I was at Zoho recently, Arvind showed me something in passing that has already completely changed the way I work: Bloglines. This is simply an service that enables you to store RSS feeds, sort them into folders and then view them online. Described like this it sounds like nothing special. But it really is.

In February, when I was in Chennai visiting Zoho Arvind showed me Bloglines, which I subsequently explored and wrote about. It is essentially a reworking of a traditional RSS reader as an online service. Like Remember The Milk it does one thing, and it does it very well.

Here are links to three currently available online forum and chatroom services. I have not tried any of them, but they came up in a discussion today with Roberto.

My decision the other day to investigate the applicability of software as a service for the memi project has had some interesting preliminary results. Zoho, Omnidrive, and Adobe Remix are just some of them…

Observers such as Nicholas Carr believe the move from PC-based computing to Web-based computing will be one of the most important technology trends.

is researching lifestreaming and network consolidators
is testing hellotxt (www.hellotxt.com) which would benefit immensely from an api (unless there is one and I can’t find it)
is no longer locked in the toilet, the one whose lock he thought he had fixed a few weeks ago, thanks to two girls and some pliers
is at Arcada transferring archival material from Laptop A to Laptop B – for the last time, since he will be living in the cloud very soon!
has noticed that more people in Finland have pledged to download Firefox 3 today than in Sweden – sixty more!
notes that hellotxt has solved the Twitter -> Facebook problem of the last week or so. Consider it part of my toolkit now!

I had been discussing our uses of Zoho with Arvind, and he (and various blog postings) had been offering glimpses of an all-new, all-shiny future at Zoho. They had promised that they were introducing two new services called Zoho Business and Zoho Education, and both seemed to be applicable to what we have been doing at Arcada. I wanted to see them in action.