Next Generation e-mail

Here an interesting article about the next generation e-mail and a review of 4 companikes involved in tryin g to make communications better.

I think however that there is nothing wrong with g-mail, it works perfectly fine, what is a problem is the contacts upon which you need to hang your communication.

http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/16/four-startups-ready-to-change-the-face-of-email/

Per

CRM

OK, I know it is late but I have to write this.

Does all the CRM companies like Salesforce, ZoHo, and www.panthius.com relly think that the customer data is the competitive advantage?

Well the answer is NO.

As i have always said, the data in it self is not worth anything, it is what you do with it.

I take as an example, just to make a point, iconnecte.com wants my data, OK fine, I have to plug it in again!

and then what? Now the trick starts, what do we do with this data, I think Jesse has a great plan and let's leverage on that: to connect people and businesses in Singapore.

Is my data a competitive edge? NO. What you do with this information is. Please send me once a week a mail about what I should do next week, this is on, maybe you should attend this.....

I am constantly surprised how many people I have to tell about happenings in Singapore, really I have been here for 4 months and they ask me (!), something is wrong (or right depends how you want to see it)

Jesse, keep going, you are on the right thing, just adjust according to the customer request...

PB

sureimin

The beauty of writing your business plan as a blog is that you do not have to care about any structure, just write and make it happen, the structure is provided by Google, no?

So here is a great example of the benefits of MMUS: sureIamin.com, or what ever you want to call it. anyone wanting to get your data, magazines, event oragnizers, organizations, anyone should get MMUS sign me up API that allows yo as an organizer to get the information yo need from a person in one "drag and drop"

You can sign up to ask for what details you require from MMUS and add your own requests to the whole thing.

Cool, no, but a necessity in the future.

Now I am going to invite some more people to join this blog, we need more comments and ideas.

Good night.

PB

Going mobile

Dear friends, some time ago I did add something, but I have been busy, and I see that you have not added anything yet, well soon there will be more players adding to the story.

Here a great example of an application that should be part of MMUS network: www.styky.com

Of course we need mobile access, that is the whole point. Today for example I was at a networking event and I was bringing my analog business card holder (!), and man did I have use for it. I did manage to call 4 persons on the way to the event, at the event I did hand out another 3 contacts to 3 new contacts (get it?) and the evening was a great success.

Now being analog it has it's drawbacks. First of all I have to type in my contacts phone numbers.

Ponder it.

First of all I have to type in my contacts phone numbers.

I mean why? Why is not my business cards available on my phone?

I want to see a copy of the card, that will ring a bell and make me remember and all the data available and easy to use, phone, email, skype.

WHY DO I HAVE TO TYPE THIS SO MANY TIMES?

Google dissapoints

Getting more and more into the sharing, Web 2.0, call it what you want, but when you start using the features, you will notice that not even Google comes to deliver. Here is an example:


Can not even add your own contacts to the distribution list of Notes. And you know, they really have made one of the best applications (I will never again use Bookmarks) however why not take it full out, connect the shared people through RSS and let them know when you are adding a new note to the system. Maybe this is what delicious is all about, need to check it out, right now.

Remember it has to hang together!!!!

Microsoft Addressbook

What do you know, there is a Microsoft Address Book on every PC, just happened to find it when I downloaded the vCard from LinkedIN, since I do not have Outlook onboard I guess it defaulted to this nifty little application. Clearly someting to use since it is installed on all the 1 billion plus computers out there, compatabillity is king, someting I learned when selling CD components for Philips.


What really came as a surprise was that all my mobile contacts already showed in the MS Addressbook, I can only think they came in there when I used the Nokia PC Suite and tried to play around with that one loading all my mobile contacts to Lotus Notes.

You see it is just a mess and someone must clean up this! MS Addressbook, Google, ZoHo, OutLook, PC Suite, Mobile, and god knows where else, iconnecte, facebook, myspace and probably some 100 organizations around the world that has my details after I have been subscribing to newsletters or registering to become a member.

Yesterday was a great example when I was looking for VCs in Sweden and stumbled upon (!) Tornado Insider. When I tried to register it told me that the name already existed and when I tried my password, viola, there I was with my old data from 2001!! That is almost 7 year old contact information.

Let's make this a project and clean up the mess and make millions...

Hey that is a good tag line: MashMeUpScotty - We clean up the Internet mess (or something similar, bring on the marketing people).

:)

But hey, just tried this:

1. Export from MS Address book, I used CSV but maybe someting else is working...

2. Import to Google- Boom, 2 seconds later I had it there, very impressive, Google seems to only be working with CVS so lets use it....

We are getting there....

Looking at the Nokia PC Suit contact editor, it seems to be using the same stuff, is this just a Nokia GUI over MS Addressbook????


First things first, we need to put someone to compare the different fields and decide upon our standard and then develop a plan for how to develop the MMUS addressXchange applet that does the basic conversions and then define the interface to all different models out there and start making the MMUS addressXconnector a free API for anyone that wants to connect to MMUS. As easy as that, god I which I could program somedays, this should be a work of maximum a week and then adding one "addressbook" per day. Cool.

API standards and programming

After having read an article in Bootstrapper, I headed off to http://programmableweb.com/ to check out what they have and how it works. Seems that you need to have programming skills (something I lack) in order to make a mash-up. Is there no API standard? How difficult is it to program using a few APIs, Neil help us out here.

I will try to build the ideal MashMeUpScotty mash-up using the available APIs in this page, you can also get an RSS on news from this, cool.