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The success of Facebook has been amazing. But unfortunately, to many enterprise software vendors, Facebook has become THE solution to emulate, and in some cases copy. Socializing engages people, and Facebook is excellent at that. But in the enterprise, socializing and collaborating are two very different things . Unfortunately, enterprise vendors, particularly the ones with collaboration solutions, do not seem to [...]
Mon, June 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
We launched SimplyBox 2.0 late last week! And we are proud to say that our approach to enterprise collaboration is different from all other solutions out there. We combined our ease of use with some key enhancements on speed, contextuality, and decentralization. The result: users can simply collaborate wherever it makes sense to them – no need [...]
Mon, May 3 2010 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Had a busy, but solid stay in NYC attending the show. Congrats to Paul Greenberg and the folks that put this show together. The place was packed with folks that Get It.
Wanted to thank our friends from SAP for bringing us along. It was excellent to see the response our joint story got from some [...]
Fri, August 28 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Exciting news! SimplyBox was selected by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) as one of the “2009 Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning.” According to the Association, SimplyBox delivers on a key Standard for the 21st-Century Learner: “organize knowledge so that it is useful”. This is award is wonderful validation of our [...]
Mon, July 20 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Well, this past week was an important one for us. NEC BIGLOBE, one of the largest ISPs and Portals in Japan, launched our service in Japan. We have worked on this for a few months and we are glad we are finally live in Japan.
You can check it out at:
http://arena.biglobe.ne.jp/simplybox/
We got excellent press in Japan [...]
Mon, May 25 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
It’s been a while since our last entry. We have been extremely busy over here. Let us share some highlights with you.
The design adjustments we made a few weeks back to our Sharing functionality have worked really well. Not only our organic traffic is growing at a faster rate, but we are now seeing solid [...]
Fri, May 1 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
It was a hectic week. A lot of work trying to get our new release ready. SimplyBox will introduce, in February, a whole set of new features that will further simplify and enhance our Sharing capabilities.
On Wednesday, VentureBeat did an excellent review on us – basically stating that we were more “intuitive” than Google Notebook. That same day [...]
Fri, January 16 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Monday and Tuesday were a bit stressful as we were experiencing problems with our hosting providers. Everything has gone back to normal in the last 36 hours or so.
Once again, thank you for your patience, if you did experience issues with our service on Monday and Tuesday.
SimplyBox Support Team
Thu, January 8 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Hosting Pain!
SimplyBox Users, we are experiencing issues with our hosting provider. The service at times works normally and at times the performance is bad. We are working on it with our provider. We hope to be functioning normally as soon as possible.
Growing does cause pain sometimes … Thanks for your patience.
SimplyBox Support Team
Tue, January 6 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Back in 2007 when we were still defining the concept behind SimplyBox, we already knew that the solution would appeal to students and educators. So, we are very pleased that our “guess” back then is actually materializing now.
In the last couple of months we have seen a lot of growth in our user base within [...]
Wed, December 10 2008 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments