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Sunday Night Upgrade

Hey all - You may have noticed the Buzzword service alert that Buzzword will be offline Sunday night between 9:00 pm and 12:00 am EDT while we upgrade the system. We’ll have more to say on the content of the upgrade, so watch this space in the next few days. Following this upgrade, we expect to regain [...] (translate)

Another Teacher Endorses Buzzword

The quote of the day yesterday: In a world too full of very ordinary software products, its nice to find one occasionally that just does its job very well, with a feature set that has all the stuff you want and is not cluttered up with stuff you don’t, and perhaps most importantly, an interface that [...] (translate)

Securing Web-based Documents

There was an unfortunate news report today on CNet (Zoho Writer search bug exposed private documents) about a security problem with our fellow web application ZOHO Writer. Martin LaMonica wrote about a very brief security violation, that was caused by some bad timing in their server indexing and testing process. It sounds like the breach was [...] (translate)

Streaming Office: Missing the Point

There was a post yesterday by Randall Kennedy entitled “Streaming Office: Death knell for Google Apps?” in which he posited that Microsoft’s new effort to make Office available as a service will obviate the need and opportunity for on-line apps, in which Buzzword is obviously included. In short order, there was a response and rebuttal on [...] (translate)

Nice Reviews on Palm Breeze CAFE

Kim Cavanaugh and Lee Keller of Palm Breeze CAFE offer three nice video segments, on YouTube as well as TeacherTube. In their reviews, which are targeted at educators, they point out the value and potential of using Buzzword in educational settings - for students submitting assignments, or for teachers to check in on their students’ [...] (translate)

A Modest Update

Early this morning the Buzzword team successfully migrated to a new hosting service. Although we hope and expect that the migration was invisible to all Buzzword users, you might have noticed a few changes. First, we’ve moved to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), a more secure protocol for communicating between your computer and our server. The only [...] (translate)

Work Different

We heard about a Buzzword user recently who happily created a document on-line and after getting through the first draft, he promptly exported the document to a Word file and sent it to his collaborators as an email attachment. Old work habits, it seems, are hard to overcome. This is reminiscent of the joke about the guy [...] (translate)

Looking for User Feedback!

In the effort to keep improving our applications, Adobe User Research periodically reaches out to get direct feedback from our users. We are currently recruiting for the next round of research - if you’re willing, and are selected to participate, you will receive a $100 gift certificate for Amazon as a token of our appreciation. Here [...] (translate)

Buzzword Community Ideas

Thanks to several people for jumping into the “Buzzword Mavens” discussion on the Buzzword forum! There were some great ideas, which will be summarized below. But more important was the reminder that having a place like the public Buzzword forum is a great way to carry on the two-way conversations that we need to help [...] (translate)

Seeking Buzzword Mavens

We’ve noticed that delivering software on the web creates a more textured relationship with users. It just feels like there can be a more organic link between users and the software vendors that host these on-line applications. Some of this may just be perception - as if the user has ventured over to our house [...] (translate)

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