Tweet I spend time each week to define the technology platform I use to accomplish business. One of the goals of this platform definition is to assist in my migration to the cloud. I realized another tool I use daily, but have overlooked. I use Google Alerts to discover new information on blogs, search, and [...]
Tweet I was happy to see the announcement by Google, that they were open sourcing more of the Google Wave platform. I was at the keynote speech where they released Google Wave, and I really believed in the potential of it as a platform. The code they released adds more features and delivers a more [...]
Tweet I finally got my Google Storage for Developers email invite the other day. They promised attendees of Google I/O would get them quicker, it took 3 months. I clicked on the link in my email and requested my keys and logged into the Google Storage Manager. It has a pretty basic interface for managing [...]
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Tweet In addition to adopting Gist, I have quickly adopted a new tool that shows you rich contact profiles right inside Gmail. It is called Rapportive. I have heard about them, and Audrey uses them, but until I watched them present at YC DemoDay it didn’t really stick. As soon as I got home I [...]
Tweet Check out these browser statistics taken from my blog for traffic over the last 30 days: Firefox – 40.55% Chrome – 30.86% Safari – 11.90% Internet Explorer – 11.19% Of course my audience is made up of mostly geeks (and my mom), but it sure is good to see even Safari kicking Internet Explorers [...]
Tweet Google announced improved logic branching capabilities for Google forms today. Previously, you had to add an extensive amount of multiple choice questions to the form to direct users to various pages. You can now use a simpler page navigation feature to direct respondents to specific pages. Instead of using multiple choice questions, form creators [...]
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Tweet I have been monitoring the traffic to several major technology blogs lately. This research is based upon specific domains with specific brand associate with them: TechCrunch ReadWriteWeb GigaOm VentureBeat I have been evaluating their “popularity” via via several top tech news aggregation sites and social bookmarking tools: Digg StumbleUpon Hacker News DZone As well [...]
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Tweet Dropbox just launched a new application programming interface (API) for their popular cloud storage platform. The RESTful API allows you to exchange, distribute or access files on a user’s desktop. The API offers the following features: Simple HTTP+JSON method of accessing a user’s information in a user approved sandbox on the user’s desktop. List, [...]
Tweet The Chromium team talked about improved Google Chrome plug-in security today. Apparently we are seeing more and more security exploits targeting browser plug-ins. Since many plug-ins are ubiquitous, they pose the most significant risk to users. To better protect Google Chrome users from the threat of plug-in exploits, Google announced a couple of initiatives: [...]
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Tweet Google released a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad today. You can now view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files that are uploaded to your documents list, without needing to download the file. I’m viewing more and more office documents on my Iphone and IPad these days. Since [...]
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Tweet I was just reading a great testimonial of moving your business to Google Apps. I use Google Apps as a starting point for all my domains, right after purchasing the domain. Reasons for moving your business to the Google Apps Cloud: All Your Data is Backed Up Share Your Documents Share Your Calendar Increased [...]
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Tweet Google releasde Google Chrome 5.0.375.86 on Thursday which includes integrated flash player being enabled by default. Interesting positioning by Google in the Flash v HTML5 battle. Google Chrome is a leader in embracing HTML5 standards in their browser. Now they are also further embracing Flash by allowing default integration and updates within Chrome. I [...]
Tweet Gooogle has opened upon support for companies to use multiple domains when setting up their Google Apps. The Google Apps control panel now allows administrators to manage multiple domains and assign to specific resources such as email, docs, and Google Sites. I was always just setting up separate Google Apps accounts for each domain, [...]
Tweet Google Chrome just keeps winning me over lately. My firefox seems to crash a lot, which seems to be related to my firebug, but not always. With Google Chrome in the lead with HTML 5 support, I’m spending more and more time each day using it as my primary browser. I am enjoying what [...]
Tweet I review how a lot of events are managed to keep an eye out for best practices. One of the most valuable things an event can do is to video tape each one of its sessions. I’m sure this can be a fairly costly endeavor, but is money well spent. Google goes the extra [...]
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Tweet I recently removed a couple of aggregated tech news sources from my Google Reader. There are a few sources that I think are going beyond what I find valuable in my tech business world. I am relying on my Google Network of friends to refer common stories from major tech news sources to me. [...]
Tweet I’ve been paying attention to the Google Cloud Print project at Google Code. With Google Cloud Print you can: Register any printer to be accessible via the Internet for printing by authorized users Allow authorized users to print to this device with multiple devices (desktop, laptop, mobile phone) Seem like as a business owner [...]
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Tweet I am looking around my Google Account Ecosystem and playing. Since the addition of Google Buzz I spend more time looking at my profile page. My buzzs’ come up more in searches so I tend to stumble on my own profile page more. I have used iGoogle as my home page since…I can’t remember. [...]
Tweet I was just talking with Google I/O events team about keeping events sessions up to date on the conference and event sessions page. Sessions change rapidly and updates are needed by multiple teams in real-time. Web-site(s), support personnel, marketing, etc all need updated information. There are multiple digital and human sources that need the [...]
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