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Kivo looks a lot like DocVerse. Which was eventually bought by Google and became Google Cloud Connect[1]. Google Cloud Connect was supposedly replaced with Goo

Kivo looks a lot like DocVerse. Which was eventually bought by Google and became Google Cloud Connect[1]. Google Cloud Connect was supposedly replaced with Google Drive[2]. No idea if it offers the same functionality. There may be 100,000s of people missing Google Cloud Connect which just isn't enough of a market for Google to pursue. Personally, I don't think the problem is lack of tools or a better way than email. It's just lack of training or willingness to do something different. [1]http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-cloud-connect-for-microsoft.html http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-cloud-connect-... [2]http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=3017040 http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=30170...

zefi 13y ago
You're right, ease of adoption is the no. 1 barrier to products like ours and docverse. We know that to make this work, it needs to be at most two or three steps to be fully set up and working with someone else, and then very little effort from then on. No one has made it this simple yet. Also, we're doing slide by slide version control, rather than snapshots of the whole document. People emailed themselves files before dropbox, but since dropbox I've never done that. That's the kind of ux needed to make any product solving this problem succeed.
qq66 13y ago
If you try to use Google Cloud Connect you'll find that it's too buggy to use for more than 15 minutes.