Monthly Archives: October 2006

google buys jotspot

By jonezy | Published: October 31, 2006
this looks like another notch in the online office application for google, it’ll be interesting to see how they integrate this product into the existing suite (spreadsheets, gmail, gcal) I tried to register at jotspot about 6 months ago and had a really crummy experience trying to get my account setup, but i’m sure with the [...]
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Claire Nora Jones

By jonezy | Published: October 23, 2006
Born October 22, at 8:59pm. 8lbs even!
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R.I.P, Lloyd Alexander Jones

By jonezy | Published: October 21, 2006
My grandfather died this past Wednesday October 18th. This is the first time I have lost a very close family member, the first time I have really been touched by death. I have been fortunate that up until this point all my grandparents have been alive and relatively healthy (they are all in [...]
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week #2 of waiting for a new phone

By jonezy | Published: October 16, 2006
As a part of work it started to make real sense for me to get a blackberry. We offer 24/7 support but we don’t all want to be chained to our desks makes sense, right? I just switched to rogers about 8 months ago, because it hasn’t been a full year I am not technically [...]
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map fun!

By jonezy | Published: October 13, 2006
Flash Earth is a great time waster, check various mapping sites through this interface (google, yahoo, microsoft) the nasa one is really cool as it is updated daily and you get to see some really cool cloud patterns
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fall winter time in canada

By jonezy | Published: October 12, 2006
my mom just sent me these pictures (she lives about 2 hours north of toronto)
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more google news

By jonezy | Published: October 11, 2006
and thn maybe i’ll stop posting about them? they just launched Docs & Spreadsheets and to be honest i haven’t looked at it beyond just logging in.  At first glance it appears to be a way to collaborate on the 2 types of information.
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yup google bought you tube

By jonezy | Published: October 9, 2006
and the more i think about the more i think the reason they did has nothing to do with video services.  I think it has more to do with buying a customer base to deliver web based software too (how will they tie gmail and gcal into the youtube services?) the other one is obviously they [...]
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is google buying you tube?

By jonezy | Published: October 6, 2006
is google buying youtube? it would make a lot of sense, there video service is kinda crappy and youtubes legal woes could be tackled well by the behemoth that is google. will definately be interesting to see what comes of this!
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questions and answers about xbrl

By jonezy | Published: October 5, 2006
this is definately work related, Chris Vickerson (the CTO at Q4 Websystems) did a nice little write up about xbrl and what it means for publicly traded companies, go have a read.
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