Comments on: A Great WebEx Alternative: Zoho Meeting

By: sms

sms — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:49:57 +0000

I think ZOHO can become a serious competitor to Google’s online office suite. WebEx valuation of $3.2 billion is good enough to appreciate the value of this project. ZOHO houses most of its development team in India – around some 100 developers.

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By: A Wider Net » Marketing Technology » » Blog Archive » Cool Webex Alternative Coming

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:07:49 +0000

[...] Techcrunch covers Zoho Meeting, a web conferencing application with lots of great features that Webex is missing (like, hopefully, a reasonable price). I like the fact that it’s compatible with a very wide array of platforms, and I love the fact that you can record the sessions. I must add a disclaimer, however- if you’re thinking of using this as a sales tool to a bunch of people, please reconsider. In fact, please reconsider using a web conference at all. If I get one more invite to a boring impersonal audio-only web conference sales pitch I may need a webexorcism. (1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading … Posted Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 12:54 pm and is filed under collaboration, Marketing Technology, Virtual Meetings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Save to del.icio.us Digg this story [...]

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MyMobai Blog » Google Acquires Marratech; Gets Into WebEx Territory — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:12:04 +0000

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By: Carl Williams

Carl Williams — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:04:31 +0000

My company recently interviewed and reviewed some Zoho services and our staff really liked it. You can check it out at: http://www.odin...o_spell_the_end

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:34:55 +0000

@Webtech: I have settle on Yugma (http://www.yugma.com) for just that reason… it works great between PC’s and Mac’s. And they say Linux is coing out soon. I used webex for the last two years and since Yugma is free… and performance is great…and I get everything I need, I can’t see going back. I certainly recommend folks check them out also. And they don’t seem to advertize here…

By: dustin

dustin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:09:11 +0000

It’s a bit hypocritical to bash PPP then go do the same thing. How much did you get for your soul?

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:01:06 +0000

I agree with several of the people commenting above. I don’t find blogging about products that are sponsoring you distasteful in the least, but if you are going to harp on other companies and blogs the least you could do would be to put a disclosure comment at the top of your post mentioning that they are your sponsor.

I post for sponsors quite a bit and have always put a disclaimer in there, but just recently added it to the top of my posts so that my readers can be made aware of it, and skip the post should they choose to do so.

By: nvsp

nvsp — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:55:13 +0000

@Nik Cubrilovic:
You can’t see the sidebar if you read via RSS.

@JayDawg:
How is this different from PayPerPost?

By: Nik Cubrilovic

Nik Cubrilovic — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:21:03 +0000

hey its right there on the sidebar – zoho is a sponsor, just like all of you noticed

By: brettbum

brettbum — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:35:51 +0000

Sridhar, You could get a better ROI on your advertising dollars and much more coverage if you advertised this through any of the paid to blog on lots of blog services as opposed to putting all of your eggs in one basket.

You could hit tens of millions of eyes per week and not just the limited audience here at TechCrunch.

By: kat

kat — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:29:45 +0000

No disclaimer? And you run an ad for them in your sidebar? Isn’t this the same kind of thing you were discussing about pay per post?
Hypocritical at it’s finest.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:07:21 +0000

Good one, JayDawg.

By: Basu

Basu — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:49:31 +0000

This is kinda nice, but I’m still waiting for Notebook to go public.

By: JayDawg

JayDawg — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:32:15 +0000

Do we really expect a disclaimer from TechCrunch at this point? Let’s be fair thigh, I found this review “fair and balanced.”

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:08:34 +0000

WOW Techcrunch! Good stinking job. How does this post differ from one made by a Payperpost user? Can you say “hypocrites”?

http://www.tech...-buy-your-soul/

By: Sridhar Vembu

Sridhar Vembu — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:05:22 +0000

@Jeff,
On pricing, yes we will be very competitive (that is almost religion here, to provide affordable pricing!). We expect the private beta to be relatively short, about a month, and then we should be able to open up. Contact us at support at zoho [] com if you want to test it before that.

@Zaid,
We are putting in a lot of effort on the performance side. The past 2 months, that is pretty much what most of our teams worked on. Zoho Projects is the only one yet to move to the new infrastructure, because of some code migration issues. We have resources working on each of the services, so we don’t shortchange one to launch another (in fact that cannot even be easily done, because of the time it takes to launch apps like Zoho Meeting, where there are a lot of moving parts). Please bear with us.

Sridhar

By: Zaid

Zaid — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:10:33 +0000

If I was Zoho, I would take a step back from launching new stuff and make the already released apps in more usable state. I’m waiting to try out Zoho Projects soon as they move to their new infrastructure. At the moment, it takes 2-4secs to load a page within the app.

They’ve marketing figured out. But I’m sensing that they’re shortchanging themselves on quality.

By: Zoli's Blog

Zoli's Blog — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:25 +0000

Do We Need Another Web Meeting App?…

Does the World need yet another “webex-killer”? The answer is probably no. Other then Webex, whose name became a synonym to web-conferencing, there is GoToMeeting, Vyew, Teamslide, DimDim 1videoconference , Vyew, Live…

By: Jeff Rubin

Jeff Rubin — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:40:24 +0000

We have used gotomeeting for over a year now and you can’t beat the price and the fact that is compatable for MAC users (at least the viewer is)… However, I am very interested in seeing what ZOHO has to offer and if it will be priced competitively…. Does anyone (or even a ZOHO rep) have any idea how long we will be waiting for accounts to be activated?

By: Sridhar Vembu

Sridhar Vembu — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:16:16 +0000

@chrisco,
Sorry you encountered an error in Zoho Sheet. We have a certain number of calculation engines provisioned, and on occasion that limit is exceeded (particularly on news days, alas). We are bringing new servers on stream.

Sridhar

By: Zoho upsets me

Zoho upsets me — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:19:48 +0000

I would totally walk away from Zoho innovations. I can’t trust Zoho either

By: walter

walter — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:11:16 +0000

yeah, no offense but a disclaimer would have been nice.

By: chrisco

chrisco — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:31:44 +0000

After poking around the Zoho.com website and applications I am disappointed. Couldn’t even use the spreadsheet… every time I entered anything in a cell I got this error message: “The server encountered a problem and was unable to fulfill your request.”

Also, Why are there so many ZoHo ads all over TechCrunch. Is TechCrunch fluffing this company for some reason? What’s the reason? A lot of questions… and a bad taste.