No matter how your look at it, this is a wonderful season. People of all viewpoints reflect on the past year and make resolutions for the New Year; we treasure family relationships and celebrate friendships. For my part, I couldn’t be happier. eXpresso is growing by leaps and bounds, and people like you are benefitting [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, you might have noticed that eXpresso went dark for about two and a half days. The cause of our outage was directly connected to a rare but large scale outage Amazon’s ‘EC2′ and ‘EBS’ services suffered, making those services completely unavailable. And since eXpresso utilizes Amazon’s Web Services to host [...]
The Facebook saga is both fascinating and paradoxical. Facebook has drawn millions of users to its site and has become a pop culture icon. The giant asterisk to this success is they have yet to figure out how to monetize it (in other words, how do you get paid – how do you make money?).
The [...]
More and more vendors are introducing Cloud platforms and SaaS offerings to bring people together online. The purpose of these collaborative systems is to mimic the work environment that we had since the first organized office.
Think about the work environment people have been using since the organized office became commonplace. We see it best in [...]
eXpresso is almost a year old, and it seems there’s something else to get excited about every week. We continue to make great strides on the development front and more people are adopting eXpresso daily. And now, I’m seeing a brand transformation that’s very gratifying: perception is catching up with reality.
Last week, CIO Weblog published [...]
I was recently asked to comment on a business blog about the extraordinary growth of Outsourcing. What are the best ways to make judgments about which contractors to hire?
I follow this topic rather closely because the very nature of outsourced relationships requires file exchange and real-time collaboration among dispersed parties. Of course, that’s the eXpresso [...]
The story goes that a husband asks his wife why she makes a meatloaf, cuts it in half, then puts the halves in a pan side-by-side. She answered that her mother had always done it that way. Now curious herself, she phoned her mother, “Mom why do we cut our meatloaf in half before cooking [...]
The SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) marketplace is relatively young and going through dramatic changes every day. The debate rages among the “professional papers”, blogs, and articles on what makes a good SaaS application and how to monetize it. One thing is clear: the old world of shipping software (either with a CD or electronically with a key) [...]
What a difference a day makes. Or in this case, four months…
We launched eXpresso in August. With few exceptions, the business, investor, and user worlds thought eXpresso had big-time winning potential. Reviewers and technical writers heaped high praise on the eXpresso concept, but invariably the articles included terms like “fledgling startup” and “lean organization”. They [...]
The real estate tenet of location, location, location has a business counterpart: focus, focus, focus.
At first glance, industry giants Cisco, Microsoft, and Google might appear to be all over the map with their direction and emphasis. In fact, these corporations have a laser-focus on their products and their market. Cisco wants to own the network, [...]
