Office 2.0 Database finally goes Web 2.0
Check out this fantastic Web 2.0 resource for anyone looking to move beyond MS Word garbagio: Office 2.0 Database (It’s much better than this pretender: http://itredux.com/office-20/database/ Why? Design is better.)
In addition to User Ratings, they also added a category navigation. A bit a ironic this feature never existed until now, but better late than never. The category navigation is excellent but could split a few more hairs for my taste. ‘Email’ for example is way to big to limit to its own category.
As I see it, you need to break email into these three categories:
- Personal Email (winner: Gmail, and to hell with Zoho)
- Organization Email (winner: Google Accounts)
- Email Marketing/Broadcasting (winner: ?)
Office 2.0 doesn’t actually offer much here, so it’s hard to say. They do list Constant Contact, which is pretty heavily used, as well as Breeze. I don’t like either because neither offers an Open API.
Still though, now that Office 2.0 DB is letting users talk back finally, they should start to benefit from the guidance of their readership.