Regular readers of this blog already know that WSG’s G-Serve network support and IT consulting service leverages remote monitoring, support and reporting. We use a product called N-Able, and have been for quite some time.
Well, look who thought what we were doing was a good idea. Staples, a competitor of our parent company, Gile Office Solutions, has acquired Thrive Networks in Boston. Besides the fact that Staples’ move is just another example of a faceless corporation trying to purchase expertise rather than possessing or developing their own, Thrive uses – you guessed it – N-Able.
To Staples, we say – nice try. We were here first, and the party’s going just fine without you.
And by the way, if you’re trying to tell the world you are better than the rest, and are technically savvy, you might just try fixing your web page. See the below image of Thrive’s /Staples page.
Don’t mess with Johnny-Come-Lately. Call us today at 518-435-0682, or email us to schedule your free G-Serve network and IT evaluation.
In a few minutes, we’ll be reviewing CRIBABlog.org, and how to improve it at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference here in Columbus, Ohio. Jog over to my Twitter feed to see what’s been happening here.
Visit CribaBlog.org for updates on today’s big event featuring Stacy Mitchell. I’ll be live blogging the goings-on.
That is today’s message, folks. Three words – Use social media. And then three words after that – Use it right. Facebook, YouTube, blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Delicious, and even Digg. How do you know what to use, or how to use it, or if it is working?
All good questions. Valid points. But you can’t see how it feels to swim by dipping your toe in the pool, or by watching other people swim. You have to get in the pool – dive in, ease in, come slowly down the ladder, whatever. If your competition is involved with social media, and you are not, it is as if they have taken an ad out in the yellow pages, and you have not. It is as if you are not on the playing field, or are at least on the sidelines, if not outside the arena altogether.
I’ve been using Google’s new browser, Chrome, and so have a lot of other people, most much smarter than me. Security Focus puts the question of Chrome and browser security into focus. Funnier is being able to get Google to tell you about its own problems. Here’s the SERP for “google chrome has holes.”
The unofficial Google blog Google Blogoscoped has screen shots of Chrome. I guess we’ll take what we can get as we await the release. Our own Jason Murray said it best on Twitter this morning:
“Reading about chrome….and waiting for the download to become available….I’m just a tech junky I guess…need my fix!
I had not heard this rumored earlier, but Google is set to release a beta version of its own browser on Tuesday. They’re calling it Chrome, and it makes sense to do so at this time. Instead of asking what browsers matter and developing for them, or attempting to trademark the phrase “cloud computing” as Dell has recently done, Google made its own browser and wrote a 38-page comic book to announce it,
E-Mail and search are still the top activities folks engage in online, and Google is already there with GMail, Postini, and Google Apps. They’ve long been pushing the cloud with Google Docs. That they’re releaseing a browser just now makes me wonder what took them so long. Will be hard to compete with Firefox 3 for features and usability, but the Google name will give it a good start.
