Yammer: ‘We want to cut the amount of email you get in half’
Ever feel like you're drowning in email? Yammer may have the answer. We caught up with Yammer CEO David Sacks to find out if microblogging really can help us work more effectively…
Podcast: Download (Duration: 13:12 — 12.1MB)
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Inspired by Twitter and Facebook, it’s a business-focused social networking tool designed to increase communication while decreasing email traffic. Launched on stage at TechCrunch50 in September 2008, it’s now used by such corporations as Xerox, Disney and the BBC.
more…
Posted by Oliver, 14 May 2009 , 1:59 pm
Microsoft: ‘We feel a strong obligation to customers with IE8′
Internet Explorer 8, which is already available in Beta and is expected to be officially released next year, is the next iteration of Microsoft's market-leading web browser. Oliver Hurley catches up with Internet Explorer senior product manager James Pratt to quiz him on web standards compliancy, why IE7 took so long and, erm, the significance of X-UA-Compatible header tags…
What are the main things you want to achieve with Internet Explorer 8?
Our goals are to create a faster, easier web browsing experience for the things users do every day on the web. We provide features that allow users to reach beyond the page and bring the variety of online services to life and deliver the most secure and reliable version of Internet Explorer to date. more…
Posted by Oliver, 11 December 2008 , 3:18 pm
Google: ‘We want to make all browsers better’
Google released the web browser Chrome in September. But why were they doing it? How would it affect their relationship with Mozilla? And did they really include a mode specifically designed to allow users to view porn anonymously? Zeta throws these questions, and more, at Anthony House, Google UK's Communications & Public Affairs Manager
What was the impetus for developing a browser?
As Google employees, we spend most of our time doing everything from requesting vacation time to writing documents in Google Docs to filing expense reports through the web browser. And so we are probably more aware than most people of the opportunities and limits of web browsers generally. It’s not anything to do with animosity towards other browsers but we thought that we could make some unique contributions technologically. more…
