Google Gears-powered Offline Mail, Application Marketplace by Zoho
Collaboration, Personal Productivity, SaaS September 19th, 2008
Planned release? Leak? it doesn’t matter anymore, InformationWeek has just pre-announced two planned major Zoho upgrades:
Zoho Creator 3 will come with an apps marketplace, something I asked for a while ago. The App Store will allow developers set their own prices and keep 100% of the revenue. It will also become a code-to-order marketplace: if you don’t find an app you need, spec it out, and receive offers from developers.
Now for the fun part: since the Chrome Comic Book, what better way to introduce a major new offering then by a comic video?
(Update: Since the news was indeed unintentionally leaked, not released, I took off the embedded video. The 356 of you who saw it: consider it a preview. An updated version will be back @ Launch)
The other major announcement is making Zoho’s Web-based Mail service available off-line, based on Google Gears. This will no doubt give Zoho Mail a competitive edge for a while.
It’s somewhat ironic that Zoho is always first to implement Google Gears (is Zoho doing Google’s testing?)Â but if the past is any indication, Google’s own Gmail should follow suit soon.
Both upgrades are expected to go live in the coming weeks.
Tags: app marketplace, app store, gears, Google, google gears, offline web apps, On-Demand, SaaS, web-mail, zoho, zoho creator, zoho mail
Zoli Erdos
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