Over the weekend I dusted down my JotSpot Wiki, cleaned out some old Wiki pages and generally made it useful as a client collaboration tool. I created some new pages and few “project diary” type blog entries to do with a proposal for work. I also set up a potential client as a [...]
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Google forgets to renew JotSpot domain!
Posted in GAFyD, GoogleApps, Web2.0, tagged Google Sites, JotSpot, Network Solutions, wiki on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Zimki - R.I.P.
Posted in GAFyD, JavaScript, tagged zimki on September 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Zimki, the London based innovative JavaScript application hosting service is to close down this Christmas Eve. Not surprising really, the announcement last June to stop the proposed open sourcing of the platform and the parent company’s (Canon Europe) decision to order a review on the future direction of Zimki looked ominous at the time. [...]
Google Apps not just for SMEs?
Posted in GAFyD, GoogleApps, news, tagged google on July 9, 2007 | No Comments »
The relentless positioning of Google Apps as an alternative to MS Office continues. Google has just announced the acquisition of Postini an on-demand hosted provider of secure communications (EMail and IM) for large corporate clients. The use of hosted email and document storage solution is a no-brainer for small businesses but compliance and data security [...]
Zimki - trust and hope.
Posted in GAFyD, JavaScript, tagged zimki on June 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Fotango’s Chief Operating Officer, Simon Wardle, writes further about the decision to delay open sourcing Zimki on his personal blog. I’ve decided to look at the situation form a glass-half-full perspective; hey it’s still free, professionally managed, easy to use; I’ve some really useful web services running on it and the rest are static [...]
Google Docs & Spreadsheets Help
Posted in GAFyD, education, excel, tagged google on April 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Most of the discussions about Google D&S tend to frame the conversation in relation to MS Office assuming prior knowledge of the likes of Excel and Word. But my wife, an IT Coach, is finding that more and more people who are drawn to first-time use of computers because of a wish to access [...]
What’s up Docs & Spreadsheets?
Posted in ETL, GAFyD, Proto, excel, news, tagged AmazonAWS, google on April 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Google Spreadsheets now supports simple graphs and named ranges; see the announcement on the google-d-s.blogspot.com blog. I’ve also just noticed that my Google Apps account now includes Docs & Spreadsheets; finally I can move my business documents from my private GMail account into Goggle Apps. Looks like a presentation tool is also on [...]
Google Apps for Your Domain and ROBOTS.TXT
Posted in GAFyD, tagged google on December 20, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I’m a technical sort of guy, so when it comes to setting up a website the natural thing for me would be to build it using raw HTML/Javascript or maybe use a web framework such as Zimki, Ruby On Rails or MODx. But when it came to setting up a web presence for [...]