Category Archives: google

Why can’t I do that?

I just had to post this video I came across the other day, it’s a google tech talk and the presenter is Aza Raskin (Son of Jeff Raskin, the guy who started the macintosh project for apple).  He’s also one of the founders of Humanized who make the most excellent Enso launcher product, a company [...]
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google buys jotspot

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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more google news

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

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?

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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Google Apps for Your Domain

To fit in with hosted email, and dns google has bundled some other tools into the Google Apps for Your Domain service offering. At first glance it just seems to be mail+cal+gtalk+page creator but with a focus on collaboration within your hosted account. All for free too!
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a couple of great google related apps

2 sweet apps that I would love to use in my google workflow (email and calendar) but i can’t (because I used a Google Hosted account and not a standard gmail and gcal accounts) GooCal – Enable offline management of your google calendar GTDGmail – Integrates some really cool gtd workflow into gmail (I have emailed the [...]
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google google google!

so i was talking with a friend about google analytics and he was wondering if i could give him access to my account there to see what the service is like. seems like a reasonable enough request. actually executing this couldn’t have been simpler. just add his gmail address into the list of people [...]
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I want my web 2.0

If you haven”t been able to tell up till now i am a big fan of both Google and 37signals. Both companies that are seemingly worlds apart and both have products that i love. As is the case with alot of competing products in the online world as well as the offline world, [...]
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Gmail for your domain (google hosted)

so i finally got around to switching my jonezy.org email to google hosted (i got an invite about 2 months ago but put off swtiching) it’s definately a very simple straight forward email service but it’s familiar and comfortable (I have like 5 other gmail accounts that i think i am going to consolidate into my [...]
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