jonezy.org » google http://www.jonezy.org/blog me and you and everyone we know Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:58:06 +0000 en hourly 1 Why can’t I do that? http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2008/06/16/why-cant-i-do-that/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:34:09 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=127 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 and product that I am a huge fan of.

Anyways, this is a fantastic video on the topic of “Humane Computing” and I think it’s well worth your time to sit down and watch it all the way through.

Away with applications, the death of the desktop

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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 resources now available the product and any shortcomings will be brought to a much higher level.

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/31/google-buys-jotspot/feed/ 0 more google news http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/11/more-google-news/#comments Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:15:34 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/11/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.

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/11/more-google-news/feed/ 0 yup google bought you tube http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/09/yup-google-bought-you-tube/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:55:04 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/09/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 have some kind of technology that will allow advertising to be delivered and eliminate the copyright hassles that youtube has been having.

guess we’ll have to wait and see.

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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!

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/10/06/is-google-buying-youtube/feed/ 2 Google Apps for Your Domain http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/08/28/google-apps-for-your-domain/#comments Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:37:48 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=46 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!

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/08/28/google-apps-for-your-domain/feed/ 0 a couple of great google related apps http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/08/23/a-couple-of-great-google-related-apps/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:11:37 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=44 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 developer on this project and he assures me he will implement this for Google Hosted accounts)

Have any great google related apps I should know about?

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/08/23/a-couple-of-great-google-related-apps/feed/ 0 google google google! http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/08/16/google-google-google/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:27:06 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=39 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 able to access the site and boom, done. no additional passwords for the other user no confirmation email nothing. it was just easy.

score another small win for google!

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/08/16/google-google-google/feed/ 0 I want my web 2.0 http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/08/02/i-want-my-web-20/#comments Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:51:17 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=35 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, I am being forced to make a decision.

What my current workflow looks like

Gmail Hosted for all my email (except work email)

Google Calendar for personal timetracking, appt’s etc (this does include some freelance stuff and any important work meetings)

What I am missing from this is BackPackit

Backpackit has all the to do list stuff i want, it’s got note taking file uploading and sharing it’s great but i just can’t figure out what to do. My options are as follows

1) Stay with my current setup of gmail/gcal and occasionaly use backpackit

2) Ditch gcal and do all calendaring in backpackit

3) Ditch backpackit entirely and try to accomodate lost functionality within gmail/gcal ?

Definately going to have to take a bit of time to think about this one…

]]> http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/08/02/i-want-my-web-20/feed/ 0 Gmail for your domain (google hosted) http://www.jonezy.org/blog/2006/07/02/gmail-for-your-domain-google-hosted/#comments Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:20:02 +0000 jonezy http://www.jonezy.org/blog/?p=20 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 jonezy.org email). I have setup all of my other accounts (work etc) to be forwarded to my hosted account and with gmail’s intelligent replying i can basically use my jonezy.org account for everything which might be pretty cool.

the other great thing is that it still gives you the ability to use the calendar (which i have recently started using and absolutely love).

i think this might solve the problem of my personal email clutter, finally.

and at work it’s been suggested that we might even use this service! i wonder if that will happen?

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