Work Week | Less is More

| Salesforce Buys Slack | Virtual Events: Bizzabo, Hopin | Autonomous: Gatik | Elsewhere: Zoom, Airtable, Less communication is more |Photo by K8 on Unsplash:::Slightly revised format. Mostly restricting my attention here to markets I am actively researching.:::Salesforce Buys SlackI had predicted that Slack would need to team up with a major player...

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Salesforce and Slack: Countering Microsoft

I had thought it would be Amazon, but Slack has to pair up with someone bigContinue reading on GigaOm »

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GigaOm Radar for Collaborative Whiteboards v1.0

We’ve published the Radar report on ‘Workboards’ — collaborative whiteboards — that are being widely adopted in a remote work eraContinue reading on GigaOm »

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First Look | The New Dropbox Spaces

This is a complete restart of Spaces, not a minor upgradeContinue reading on GigaOm »

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Minimum Office Is Here to Stay. Why Is the Market Trashing Work Technology?

Do they think we’re going back to the way it used to be once there’s a vaccine?Continue reading on GigaOm »

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How Many Apps Do People Use?

It takes a lot of digging to find out.Continue reading on GigaOm »

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Work Week | Taking Stock

| Work Chat: Slack, Teams, Workplace | CRM: Microsoft, Adobe, and C3.ai | ERP: SAP loses $33B value | New Tool: Input |Photo by La Victorie on Unsplash:::Work ChatSlack stock fell 4.3% yesterday, principally in response to Microsoft reporting serious growth in 365 usage. ‘Teams now has more than 115 million daily active users’, Satya Nadella said, adding...

Oct 2020

Work Week | 5G, 5G, 5G…

| Jam: In-The-Flow Collaboration | LoNo: Retool Raises $50M | People Operations: Workday releases new tools | Work Tech: Slack drops 6% |Quote of the Weeksummary of the Apple iPhone 12 event by TrentOnTrentOffClick the image above to hear ‘5G’ a hundred times in a 47 seconds superclip of the iPhone 12 event.:::In-The-Flow CollaborationJam raises $3.5...

Oct 2020

Minimum Office | The Workplace Has Been Pulled Inside Out

And companies need to give workers better supportContinue reading on GigaOm »

Oct 2020

Work Week | Decades and Weeks

| Call Center AI: Balto and Replicant | Zoom: OnZoom and Zapps | Is Dropbox Stuck? | Twilio Buys Segment |:::Quote of the WeekThere are decades in which nothing happens and weeks in which decades happen.| Vladimir LeninThis has been one of those weeks.:::Call Center AI: Balto and ReplicantBalto raises $10 million to analyze call center conversations...

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