Yearly Archives: 2005

December 27, 2005 by Chris Kohlhardt

Prediction: 2006 is the year Office moves to the web

The cool thing is that this isn’t coming from me, who would obviously benefit from such a move, but from a recent San Jose Mercury News article that attempts to make some bold predictions for 2006. The office moves to … Continue reading →

December 25, 2005 by Chris Kohlhardt

“On Demand Software” article on SFGate

I just read a great article about On Demand Software over at SFGate. It’s interesting to see the mainstream media perspective on this trend, and it makes what we’re doing feel that much more real. For all you folks who … Continue reading →

December 14, 2005 by Chris Kohlhardt

Gliffy Drawing Toolkit

Interested in including easy end user drawing capabilities into your web based application? Gliffy is now offering the same drawing toolkit that our diagram editor is based on as a licensable code module. Here are some example applications for our … Continue reading →

November 29, 2005 by Chris Kohlhardt

Gliffy.com replaces SilverTie.com

For folks who are curious, SilverTie Software is now officially Gliffy Inc. If you’re subscribed to the SilverTieBlog RSS feed, you should be redirected to the new feed without doing a thing. On to new and better things…

November 17, 2005 by chrisk

Gliffy Beta Begins

The Gliffy closed beta has begun. We’ll slowly add more user to the closed beta in the next several weeks/months. Browse on over to http://www.gliffy.com and you can see our new home on the web. In fact, as of today, … Continue reading →

October 8, 2005 by chrisk

Standard Interoperability API

Sam at Writely kicks off a conversation about a common interoperability API between all these new applications popping up. We totally agree that such an API would make applications such as ours way more useful. Here are some examples of … Continue reading →

September 28, 2005 by chrisk

Simple answers to concerns about Office for the Web

My former co-worker and friend, Dave, had some common concerns about moving to an Office on the Web. I thought I’d chime in with my thoughts: > Maybe you don’t want your company/state secrets going across the internet and stored … Continue reading →

September 22, 2005 by chrisk

People are talking about the trend….

I read two blog posts recently, both from VC’s, which show folks are starting to grok the reality that collaborative internet based applications will soon be the tools of choice, replacing traditional desktop applications. Fred Wilson writes: “…my experience and … Continue reading →

September 16, 2005 by chrisk

Writely!

Writely is a web based word processor which is similar in concept to what we’re doing in many ways with Gliffy (our product), except we’re not building a word processor. I can’t believe how similar the names are…. too funny! … Continue reading →

September 9, 2005 by chrisk

www.silvertie.com launched!

This was truly a team effort. Lyla did a fantastic job with the design of our logo and web site. Also, Henry did some great work getting the HTML in order. Props to Dana for most of the content. Thanks … Continue reading →