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Google forgets to renew JotSpot domain!

Posted in GAFyD, GoogleApps, Web2.0, tagged , , , on February 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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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The WAN is the new LAN

Posted in EC2, GoogleApps, SimpleDB, broadband, data, tagged , , , , , on December 17, 2007 | No Comments »

While discussing SimpleDB ,Nick Carr points to the polar opposite views that the two computing behemoths, Google and Microsoft, hold as to the future direction of cloud computing. Google’s Schmidt sees an eventual 90/10 split with the cloud being the home to most data and processes while as expected, Microsoft’s Raikes points to the [...]

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Take Mind Mapping offline with Google Gears

Posted in GoogleApps, SQLite, Web2.0, education, tagged , on November 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been a long time fan of mind maps (the pencil and paper type) and have also occasionally used the excellent and free computer based FreeMind to good effect. Over the last year or so a number of online mind mapping tools have appeared and I see that one of the better ones, www.mindmeister.com, [...]

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Google Reader - KM killer app

Posted in GoogleApps, KM, education, tagged , on September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’ve mentioned before my delight at the new search facility within Google Reader, while regretting that del.icio.us didn’t offer the same facility. Now I find, through Google Reader Search, I already have something more useful, a personalised search engine that searches not just my blog subscriptions’ contents but my also my del.icio.us bookmarks’ meta [...]

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Google Spreadsheets - ETL tool

Posted in BI, ETL, GoogleApps, RSSBus, Ruby, SQLite, Talend, VBA, Web2.0, excel, kettle, tagged on September 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Although I’m a total Excel fanboy, I most admit I rarely use it any longer for personal stuff such as home budgets, tax calculations, what-ifs, to-do lists etc.; I now tend to use Google Spreadsheets. Likewise, personal notes, drafts and useful bits of code are stored using Google Docs rather than MS Word. [...]

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Like Excel macros? You’ll love this..

Posted in ETL, GoogleApps, Ruby, VBA, excel on July 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »

One of the most used (and abused) features of Excel is its macro recording facility. How many mundane and repetitive actions have been automated using this feature? How many people found the courage to program in VBA by using the recorder as their training-wheels? Well now iMacros (from German company iOpus [...]

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Google Apps not just for SMEs?

Posted in GAFyD, GoogleApps, news, tagged 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 [...]

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