Vizu, the online polling network

Vizu, the online polling network

Since our initial tepid review of online polling company Vizu, its co-founders Mark Tilling and Dan Beltramo have gone underground and reemerged with vastly more ambitious product.

Earlier this year, Vizu got $1 million and began offering a way to let people post polls on their blogs or Web sites.

Beginning Dec. 15, however, it will give marketers and other companies an inexpensive and easy way to conduct instant surveys about just about anything, with much… Continue Reading

Zimbra lets you use its AJAX messaging software offline too

Zimbra lets you use its AJAX messaging software offline too

Zimbra, the San Mateo open-source messaging software start-up that has been on a roll lately, now lets you work with it offline.

Among companies offering AJAX technology for email/office products — which let you do cool useful things like scroll over an address and have a map pop up, and switch seamlessly to your contacts and calendar — Zimbra is the first to be available both online and offline, to our knowledge. Google has said it… Continue Reading