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- Zoho takes the first step towards offline apps
- Zoho announced early this morning that they've taken the first steps toward making Zoho Writer available as an offline app using the Google Gears tool. Initially the docs saved offline will be read only but full offline functionality is planned.We are taking our first steps towards offering Zoho Writer offline....
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Zoho, Marc Orchant
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Google buys GrandCentral - wow!
- I did not see this one coming but it makes a lot of sense. Google purchased GrandCentral, a very useful online service that provides a unified "inbox" for all of your phone numbers. I first encountered GrandCentral at DEMOFall last year and have been tracking the enhancements and improvements in...
- Tags: Google, Mobility, Uncategorized, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Google calendar updates
- Google has recently added a couple of very nice new features to the Google Calendar application. Since the beginning of the year, I've been using Google Calendar as the "glue" that binds all of my devices witht he assistance of some helpful utilities including Spanning Sync for Mac OS X...
- Tags: Web Apps, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Is Google the black hole at the center of the net?
- Another day, another announcement about Google pulling the net into its gravity well. Salesforce.com and Google have announced an integration that tightly couple AdWords campaign management into the popular CRM/SFA tool. It's a natural fit and I'm trying not to feel all creepy about this but...Phil Wainewright has a solid...
- Tags: Web Apps, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Work virtually from anywhere
- Leo Babauta at Web Worker Daily has posted a very thorough guide to working virtually that focuses primarily on tools but also includes some excellent workflow recommendations. It's a bit Google-centric but he does provide a number of alternative choices for most of the key ingredients for a cloud-based workspace.What...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, OpenOffice, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- Google Gears - the game has changed
- Wow!I'm not often left feeling completely astonished these days. I like to think I'm pretty on top of where things are going. But I just got completely blindsided by Google Gears. There's already plenty of first-glance analysis to help you grasp the magnitude of what they've done. I recommend you...
- Tags: Google, Mobility, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Google adds themes to personal home page
- Caught this via Steve Rubel this morning. Google has added a theme engine to their Personalized Home Page offering that allows you to skin the page. I dont recall Google ever making it possible to move away from their standard white space look in any of their...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- The problem with punditry re: Google Apps vs. Office
- The only thing less surprising than Google announcement of Google Apps Premier Edition Wednesday evening and the ensuing white noise it has precipitated was the inevitability of some seriously wrong-headed punditry from the usual suspects. Microsoft-bashing is all sorts of fun – it must be given the number of folks...
- Tags: Google, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-02-24
- Friday funnies: Google vs. the chimps
- NetworkWorlds Paul McNamara wins the award for funniest thought of the day: Just reading the news like everyone else this morning when the question slaps me upside the head: Which is more impressive: Google Apps or chimpanzees fashioning spears from sticks?
- Tags: Blogs, Google
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Google Apps Premier Edition - let the games begin!
- The white noise level surrounding Googles announcement last night about their new premium offering – Google Apps Premier Edition – is bound to reach epic levels and last quite a while as everyone wraps their head around what has always seemed to me to be an inevitability on a par...
- Tags: Mobility, Microsoft Office, Software, Web Apps, Mac, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Gmail for all, still a beta
- According a story published by the Associated Press, Google has lisfted the invitation-only rstrictios on Gmail not that they were much of an obstacle at this point and made the service available to anyone who wants in. The beta tag on the popular web mail service remains though. Gmail was...
- Tags: Software, Web Apps, Google
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Gmail adds POP3 accounts
- Google is introducing a new feature, called MailFetcher, to Gmail that turns the webmail service into a full-blown POP3 client. Information on the update, which is being rolled out but has yet to grace my account, can be found in the Gmail FAQ. This is a sea change for web-based...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Productivity, Mobility, Software, Web Apps, Mastering the Inbox
- Blog posts 2006-12-09
- Google dives into the deep end of the wiki pool
- So Google lobs another mind grenade in the general direction of Redmond with today's news that they have acquired JotSpot - an interesting player in the wiki-as-application-framework space that includes others like Central Desktop and Mindtouch. What does it all mean?There's no shortage of prognostication and conjecture. Techmeme is overflowing...
- Tags: Google Inc., JotSpot, Wiki
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
- Google Reader revisited
- Scanning through my RSS feeds this morning, I see Scoble is singing the praises of Google Reader and its river of news presentation. He says it's the way he now prefers to read his RSS feeds. I've come around to agreeing with him -although the river of news display is...
- Tags: RSS, Google Inc., Google Reader, Palm Treo, RSS feed
- Blog posts 2006-10-31
- Are consumer web-based RSS readers dead?
- That's the opinion being expressed by fellow ZDNet blogger Richard MacManus on his Read/Write Web blog following the announcement that Pluck, a venerable browser-based RSS aggregator and reader, will cease operations after the first of the year. Richard suggests that the entry of big players like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL/Netscape...
- Tags: NewsGator, Are consumer web
- Blog posts 2006-10-28
- Google Maps for Treo - wow!
- Thanks to my friend Andrew Carton of Treonauts, I have just found the coolest "wow" app in quite some time for my Treo 700p - a new Treo-optimized version of Google Maps that is simply the best and fastest map and location tool Ive used on this device. As Andrew...
- Tags: Palm Treo
- Blog posts 2006-10-21
- Writely added to Google accounts
- I received this notice for the Google Writely Team last night:In a few days, we will update your Writely account to use your Google Account registration settings.This means you'll need to use your Google Account password when signing in, not your Writely password (if they're different).If you've forgotten your Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Writely
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- Google's instant intranet
- On his Read/Write Web blog, Richard MacManus picks up on what he calls Google's new "instant intranet" home page. I've been using a version of this since I got my new Dell laptop a few months back as it was set to be the home page in Internet Explorer....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Google Inc., Intranet
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- IE7 RC1 and FeedDemon - a happy ending
- Well - after a number of crash logs, 36 e-mails, and more than a little detective work, the mystery of my IE7-FeedDemon bug has been solved. It turns out the an older version of Google Desktop was the culprit. Even though I had the software turned off, IE7 was attempting...
- Tags: FeedDemon, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Blog posts 2006-09-02
- IE7 RC1 issue resolved - sort of
- Having had some time to think about what might have caused my IE7/FeedDemon problem, it occurred to me that the culprit might have been an add-in installed into IE6 that did not work in IE7. Sure enough, I disabled all third-party add-ins running in IE7 (a process made remarkably easy...
- Tags: toolbar, add-in, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Blog posts 2006-08-25
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