Technically Speaking

Zimbra who was bought by Yahoo for $350 million the other day is still making news. This time it appears that Richard over at RWW does a full analysis of why Yahoo wanted to drop $350 million on Zimbra. The answer is pretty simple, but he breaks it down pretty nicely.

Zink, a company that does inkless printing raised $25 million. Now isn’t this the same thing we did as kids at the fall festivals we had to go to? Take some wax paper and melt crayons with a hair dryer? Sound familiar? Well this company just took that idea one step further with some crystals on paper that turn into colors at a specific temperature. Very interesting. $25 million should help roll this product out to market. Miami real estate

Technically Speaking, that is two “Z’s” too many for now!

It is apparent that last week’s launch of Apollo was a success. First we had yourminis adopting it within probably 24 hours time or less. Now we have Zimbra going to the desktop. Scrybe is reportedly right there looking at this offline opportunity of the moment.

Who is next? How about Gmail? Ha! Yes, while we all embraced everything in a browser, now we are seeing a number of companies reversing gears really quickly. This should be an interesting scramble to get it all back on your computer, offline.

Technically Speaking, this will be very interesting to watch. One of the items that will interest me is how many times this week a new tip will come in about someone else that is now going from the web to the desk. Folks, that is not news. That is hype. If you are doing something really innovative with the desktop item, then cool, if not then what is the main reason? Why is it compelling for us to discuss in the blogosphere in general?