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Common Craft video on Google Docs.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

I love Google Docs and I love the videos made by Common Craft. The combination of the two makes me positively giddy: Video: Google Docs in Plain English | Common Craft – In Plain English Our second client production was for the Google Docs team. For the first time, we got a chance to work [...]

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Google Docs has presentation!

Monday, September 17, 2007

We knew this was coming when Google acquired Tonic back in April. And now its here. {Happy dance} No longer shall we be held hostage by Microsoft. From now on our allegiance shall be with Google. That’s an improvement, right? :^)

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The Google presentation app is nigh!

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

The presentation looks pretty good, especially if you go into full screen mode. I don’t know if it handles really complex powerpoint but the straightforward, page-turner stuff looks pretty good. Now we just need an interface for making the presentations and I won’t need to deal with Microsoft Office ever again! Or at least, not [...]

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And I for one welcome our Google overlords

Monday, January 22, 2007

My name is Rob Wall, and I for one welcome our Google overlords! I’ve just been using Google Reader to read Wes Fryer’s Using Google Notebook, Google Reader, and Firefox and it made me think about how much I use Google, and how I use Google. Shortly after reading this, I was using Gmail to [...]

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Google has acquired JotSpot

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Google has acquired JotSpot Fear the Google-plex. They know all, they search all. But I’m still keeping my Gmail account. And I’ll probably use the wiki when it is available. I’ve always liked JotSpot but didn’t feel it was worth paying for with so many other free wiki spaces available (like wikispaces or pbwiki). Now [...]

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Google Calendar is here

Friday, April 14, 2006

It has been talked about around the internet for quite some time, but finally it is here (as also noted by Alec Couros). I’ve only played with it for a little while, but so far it looks very good. A lot of the best functions in it are also found in Zimbra, which is probably [...]

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Love and fear of google

Friday, February 10, 2006

Google is a strange company in the technology world. There are a lot of companies that people either love or hate – Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Intel – but Google is unique in the reaction it provokes. I love it and fear it at the same time. There’s many reasons to love Google – great search [...]

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