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Email is the most successful and popular application ever. We all rely on getting our information, updates and notifications through email whether it is on our PC, Mac, Blackberry or iPhone. We understand that email is not going anywhere and so have built certain tools within DeskAway that will help you collaborate right from your inbox.

1. Every action in DeskAway has an email notification - so if I am assigning you a task or an issue, you will get an email with all the information and a link to view it within the application.

2. Then there is DeskMail - with this, people can simply reply to the emails they get in #1 (so they are working in their inbox now) but a copy of their email reply is also stored within their DeskAway project. So, if you reply to Jay’s email with comments, not only Jay will receive your comment via email but our application will start appending this email conversation as a comment thread within the task that can be visited later. Sending attachments is also possible. Think Posterous or tumblr here.

3. If you set it on, you and your team members can also get a daily email reminder (so, you don’t have to log in to the application) of all your pending and upcoming projects, milestones, tasks and issues.

There are a few companies that have moved away from email for collaboration, but if you love your inbox you can take advantage of the above when working on your projects.

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Our founder, Sahil Parikh, pens down his thoughts on starting businesses and cloud computing tools at PrudentCloud.

Startups are a rage in emerging economies. Look at India, China or Brazil, you will find hundreds of startups sprouting all across the country. It just has become so easy to start and market a web business (even in developing countries) – increased broadband penetration, inexpensive computers, smart-phones, easy access to the Internet, free-for-all social networking tools and above all, the availability of software tools that were either out of the reach of a small business or expensive and cumbersome to setup.

Startups today have no IT infrastructure of their own. They are lean, agile, and small. They work virtually using applications that are hosted in the Cloud. According to Wikipedia, a typical Cloud Computing provider deliver common business applications online which are accessed from another web service or software like a web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.

You can crank up your startup idea over a weekend and automate every essential function of the business by using services in the Cloud. Here is a blueprint on how to achieve utopia:

Read the entire article here…