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Google Launches Google Apps Labs, Third Party Developers Welcome
TechCrunch —
... These are third party applications that can be added by businesses and schools using Google Apps. In addition to Google Moderator, two other apps are available now: Google Code Reviews (peer review of software code) and Google Short Links (change URLs to something shorter and more descriptive). ...
Labs gives Google Apps collaborative options
Webware.com —
... Google Apps offers organizations a subscription program that includes support for several online tools: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk for chatting, Google Sites for private Web sites, and Google Docs for spreadsheets, word processing, and presentations. ...
Online Office: Microsoft keeps promising while Google delivers
Between the Lines —
... Web? Consider this excerpt from Ballmer’s email: Today, some things that our intuition says should be simple still remain difficult, if not impossible. Why can’t we easily access the documents we create at work on our home PCs? Why isn’t all of the information that customers share with us available instantly in a single application? Why can’t we create calendars that automatically merge our schedules at work and home? Um, Mr. Ballmer… We can do those things already with a suite of free online software offered by a company called Google. Perhaps you’ve heard of them. When I ...
Preview: Microsoft Office 14 for Web [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... goes on to explain the reasoning behind the launch of the service and a brief demonstration of collaboration between users. Curiously, Microsoft describes the new web-based applications as a component of Office, implying that the service won’t be a free, ad-supported suite like Google Apps. ...
5 Must Have Tools for Web Working Moms
Mashable! —
... grind and finding themselves working virtually from home in order to spend more quality time with their children. These balance-achieving moms need to stay productive, flexible, and as stress-free as possible what with carpooling the kids, making dinner, and advancing their careers.
As a mom who works virtually myself, I’ve tried out my share of productivity and communications tools. Now I’m going to share with you the five I can’t live without:
Google Apps ...
Free Software We're Most Thankful For [Thanksgiving]
Lifehacker —
... (see also: Roll your own killer audio player with foobar2000 ) Thunderbird (see also: Eight killer Thunderbird extensions ) 7-Zip (see also: Top 10 Windows Downloads, #10: 7-Zip (file archive manager) ) DropBox (see also: Dropbox Syncs and Backs Up Files Between Computers Instantaneously ) uTorrent (see also: Our complete uTorrent coverage ) Winamp (see also: Our complete Winamp coverage ) Google Apps AVG Antivirus (see also: AVG Free Anti-Virus 2008 Released, Much ...
Data Portability and the Cloud
WebProNews Feed —
[image] Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together We've been hearing a lot these days about cloud computing and data portability. It only makes sense that we see some data portability through the cloud as well right? Confused yet? Think services like Facebook Connect combined with Google Apps . At the Cloud Connect event last week a bunch of developers got together and combined cloud services from Google, Amazon, and Salesforce.com to create useful applications. One such application that Kevin Gough of the Google Apps Team shares at the ...
Can You Imagine the Web in 20 Years?
SitePoint —
The late Eighties! Mike and the Mechanics were at the top of the charts, George Bush, Senior had just become President of the US, and a CERN contractor by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was busy writing a little paper entitled Information Management: A Proposal. In it he described a way to simplify the sharing of information among people in different locations. He gave it to his manager, Mike Sendall, who thought it was "vague, but exciting."
Over the following year, Tim and his colleague, Robert Cailliau, refined the idea and updated the proposal. It described a concept called a ...
Take it back: GMail gets 'Undo Send' Labs feature
Webware.com —
... to the message; and a feature in Google Apps (the corporate version of GMail) that puts orange borders around the names of e-mail recipients that are not inside your company--to alert you to not send confidential information where you shouldn't. ...
Reporter's notes: Cloud Computing conference
Webware.com —
... Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise (and one of the judges on pitch session I was moderating), says IT execs are bifurcated. "Some get it, they're putting the controls in place and encouraging use of the services." ...
Google’s Beta Love May Die In Fight For Enterprise Customers
TechCrunch —
... Don’t look for Google to give up their love of Betas in general. But they may remove the Beta notation from a number of Google Apps services, which are aimed at enterprise customers, sometime soon. A source first tipped us off that a debate was going on at Google, and we’ve subsequently confirmed it. Some of their top execs feel strongly that the Google Apps products need to have the Beta notation in their logos removed to get some enterprise customers to even consider switching from Microsoft Office. ...
Google Apps Go Social With Improved Contacts & A New API
ReadWriteWeb —
... With some core changes to way you interact with contacts, Google Apps has dipped a toe in to the enterprise social networking waters. As of today, Apps contacts exhibits shades of Facebook and Twitter by allowing you to find and interact with all the user profiles in your Apps suite. ...
Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Privacy, FriendFeed Trolls, iPhone Push, And More...
ReadWriteWeb —
... With some core changes to contacts, Google Apps has dipped a toe in to the enterprise social networking waters. As of this week, Apps contacts exhibits shades of Facebook and Twitter by allowing you to find and interact with all the user profiles in your Apps suite. ...
Google Apps Tries to Hook 'em While They're Young
ReadWriteWeb —
Google has given free versions of Apps to colleges and universities for two years now. But as part of the "Going Google" campaign, they've pushed hard seeing educational institutions adopt Apps. Why?
Even if the core of Google's strategy has been to entice paying enterprises over to Apps, giving professional-quality email hosting and other solutions away to students is the classic "hook 'em while they're young" strategy. From elementary school to college, Google is flooding the market with their products in the hope that these kids will demand it when they ...
TechCrunch50: Dick Costolo, Satish Dharmaraj, Bradley Horowitz, George Zachary and Lior Zorea join Panel of Experts
TechCrunch —
... Bradley oversees product management for Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Docs, Blogger and Picasa. Before joining Google, Bradley led Yahoo’s advanced development division, which developed new products such as Yahoo! Pipes, and drove the acquisition of products such as Flickr and MyBlogLog. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy. ...
Whoops! Students "Going Google" Get to Read Each Other's Emails
ReadWriteWeb —
... A recent bug in Google Apps allowed students at several colleges to read each other's email messages and some were even able to see another student's entire inbox. The issue occurred at a small handful of colleges, admitted Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, but he declined to say how many other institutions were affected. However, ...
Google To Make Published Google Docs Pages Searchable
OhGizmo! —
... By Chris Scott Barr
Here’s a short and sweet little tidbit from the land of Google. It seems that the search giant is now going to begin indexing documents shared within Google Docs. Now before you freak out, this doesn’t mean that everyone’s private documents will be searchable. Rather, only those documents which you have expressly made public by using the “publish as web page” option will be indexed. Just one more reason why Google is awesome.
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How Microsoft Office 10 will be locked out of my toolbag
Scobleizer —
... that everyone in the world is forced to use Microsoft Office anyway?”
That isn’t true and over the next five years is going to be less and less true.
If I asked at a conference five years ago, even an early adopter geek conference, how many people used Microsoft Office, lots of hands would go up.
Today? Very few hands go up whenever I ask that question.
By the way, what does SocialWok do? It is a new collaborative feed tool built around Google’s applications. Think about it as Facebook for your workgroup.
I thought it ...
IBM Launches iNotes, a Gmail Competitor for Business
ReadWriteWeb —
... Google, whose online suite of applications is collectively known as Google Apps, has been making steady inroads in the business world with offerings tailored to schools, nonprofits, SMBs, and the enterprise. The company currently touts 15 million users in nearly 200 million companies worldwide. Marketed as a less expensive and easier-to-manage alternative to on-site systems like Microsoft Exchange, the suite has encouraged many companies to switch to their hosted solution, mainly due to ever-decreasing IT budgets which have left penny-pinching companies scrambling to find ways ...
Open Source Inside
Symbian Blog —
... The groupware/collaboration is largely handled by Google Apps – we use this for email and some document collaboration. ...
An Enterprise Micro-blogging Comparison: Yammer, Socialcast, Present.ly… and SocialWok
The Next Web —
... – basically a social app for Google Apps that runs on Google App Engine. Since we use Google Apps internally I was excited by the prospect of this app. With many thousands of companies using Google Apps, already having taken the SaaS cloud plunge, I believe SocialWok is in an incredible sweet spot. IMO there’s still some key areas of development to be done, specifically there are not private groups and though the UI is a blatant (and intentional) Google copy it’s still rough around the edges in places. However, the core functionality is there and ...
Microsoft's Office Web Apps Shows Off Cloud, with Issues
Microsoft Watch —
... has been exploring ways to port a degree of its functionality to the cloud, and it would be interesting to see how this early attempt fared--particularly in comparison to Google Apps. ...
Microsoft's Office Web Apps: The PowerPoint Test
Microsoft Watch —
... Originally, I planned to finish this post by comparing Web Apps to Google Apps, but considering the former is still in technical preview, I felt that would be unfair--especially considering that Google Apps has spent quite some time adding functionality and working out bugs. ...
French Government Chooses Mozilla To Replace IBM and Microsoft For 130,000 Desktop PC's
ReadWriteWeb —
... decision this week to adopt Google Apps over Microsoft. Again, the win has almost everything to do with cost. The city will pay $7.25 million for the service. ...
WWD Reader Profile: Sam Glover, Consumer Rights Lawyer [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... — one at home, and two at the office (one for my Windows PC, one for Randall’s iMac). We use Google Apps, ...
