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The 4 best online whiteboards in 2025

The Zapier Blog

Office work has changed permanently since 2020, whether you're now fully remote, hybrid, or just having to collaborate more with your coworkers on conference calls. Of course, the kind of work that needs to get done hasn't changed quite as much. To that end, online whiteboards are a key tool when you need fast, easy, visual collaboration regardless of what city, country, or continent your colleagues are in.

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What could Siri do for you--if Apple ever got it right?

This is going to be BIG.

Meet me where I am--that's the whitespace that Apple can fill up with a genuine personal assistant. I thought about that as I thought about where my weekly nextNYC newsletter fits into everyone's content consumption stack and even my own--and whether AI will mark the end of human driven curation. Do NYC founders really need me in between you and the event calendar?

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Find your chronotype and schedule your productivity

The Zapier Blog

There's a lot of advice out there about the connection between timing and productivity: articles—including Zapier's own —suggesting "X things to do in the morning/afternoon/evening" to stay productive all day long. And yes, when you work on certain types of tasks absolutely impacts your productivity. But timing isn't a one-size-fits-all approach.

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The Data Decacorn Derby

Tomasz Tunguz

Databricks seems to be closing the gap on Snowflake faster than expected. Last week Databricks shared some important updates on their business which allows us to compare the progress of the two companies. Quarterly revenue between the two company shows nearly identical slope, two parallel lines. Snowflake recently exceeded $1b in quarterly revenue mark while Databricks just touched $750m and is targeting $925m for the next quarter.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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What is Zoho? And why does it have a zillion apps? 

The Zapier Blog

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. 5 things you should automate today Start automating Google and Microsoft are the big names when it comes to unified platforms, but there's another player in the game: Zoho.

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Cursor vs. Copilot: Which AI coding tool is right for you? [2025]

The Zapier Blog

Learning to program used to be a whole ordeal. I'd spend hours Googling things like "how to center a div" and then copy code from Stack Overflow, hoping it would work. (It almost never did.) AI tools have changed all that. Now, I can tell my AI assistant what I'm picturing, and it will build it while I make a cup of tea. This sudden shift from traditional coding to AI-assisted development is empowering, but it's also overwhelming.

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6 Zendesk features to improve customer support workflows

The Zapier Blog

After going through a special kind of misery sorting out a medical claim discrepancy—complete with tinny elevator hold music and templated email responses with placeholders mistakenly left in—I've had plenty of time to consider all the ways support teams can use their support software's built-in tools to improve their workflows. Automation can help your customer support team Learn how Zendesk has clearly thought this through, which is why it consistently makes Zapier's list of th

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What are OpenAI o3 and o4?

The Zapier Blog

Large language models (LLMs) are incredibly good at stating things confidently, even if they aren't always correct. OpenAI's reasoning models are an attempt to fix that, by getting the AI to spend more time working through complex problems, rather than just running with the first idea it has. Add the power of ChatGPT to your workflows Automate ChatGPT It's a really interesting approach, and reasoning models have already demonstrated that they're the next leap forward for LLMs