Category Archives: New Technologies

Sridhar Vembu: “A Dangerous Man”

By Gary Burge | Published: September 7, 2008
I’ve been a fan of the Zoho suite of online office 2.0 applications for some time. I pay to use a couple of their applications. So I enjoyed this Economist.com interview with Sridhar Vembu, the founder and CEO of AdventNet, the publisher of the Zoho products. Said the Economist: “SRIDHAR VEMBU is a dangerous man. [...]
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Zoho Passes 1 Million Customer Mark

By Gary Burge | Published: August 11, 2008
Zoho, a suite of online office products, announced last week that it now has one million customers with more arriving everyday. Congratulations, Zoho. I use almost all of Zoho’s products, and pay to use Zoho Projects as my project management system. Their recently added Zoho Invoices has replaced FreshBooks (a fine program that served me [...]
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ESME: Best of Twitter and FriendFeed?

By Gary Burge | Published: August 5, 2008
This seems to be the day for web futures! Oiver Marks at ZDNet (‘ESME’: Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment) and Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb (ESME: Is This What an Enterprise Twitter Could Look Like?) posted on ESME, a conceptual social network IM client proposed by SAP. ESME (Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment) addresses the [...]
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  • About Gary Burge

    I am an experieced web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.

    My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.

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