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Google buys Writely

Friday, March 10th, 2006

DownloadSquad report about how Google has purchased Writely and how their plan for a web based office suite is starting to fall into place.
“Another piece of Google’s fabled web-based office suite falls into place with the big G’s acquisition of Writely, the web-based word processor that we (and everyone else) have been keeping an eye […]

Google GDrive is not a rumor

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

The web apps scene is certainly hot at the moment. Google the all-conquering web company has confirmed that the rumoured Gdrive is just around the corner. I am surprised they have not done this sooner. Seemed a logical step.
“With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and […]

foldera

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Marc Orchant has posted about the forthcoming foldera – an online organizational tool that looks very promising.
“I read this morning that Foldera, an online organizational tool that virtually no one has seen, has already had 400,000 people sign up for access to the public beta whenever it is finally made available. That’s a remarkable number […]

gmail return address

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Lifehacker points out an article from Zdnet that mentions that google have upgraded gmail with an incredibly handy feature – that of being able to set your reply email address as the same as the one that it was sent to.
This is an absolute godsend to me who manages a number of email address – […]

gmail skins

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

I have just moved to using gmail as my perfered email client after resisting moving to a web based email client for so long. But, Gmail just works. It is particularly handy for those on a notebook – no more messing around with smtp servers depending on where you are!
If you too have moved over […]

ajax calendars

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Joel over at Joel on Software ranted about how the Ajax calendars that everyone is raving about are not up to scratch in terms of functionality. I think he is right with one exception – airset. It is not the best looking kid on the block – but makes up for it with incredible depth […]

temporary email addresses

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Jordon Running over at downloadsquad posts up an interesting web site that allows you to create a temporary email address and access it by a rss feed. Very handy!
“The age-old dilemma: You want to try out Cool New Service X and need to give them a valid e-mail address when you sign up, but you […]

google calendar expected tomorrow

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

The rumours about the launch of google calendar are reaching fever pitch.
‘Erick Schonfeld says that the rumor is that Google will unveil the long-ago rumored Google Calendar at Tuesday’s When 2.0 conference at Stanford. I’ll be eagerly awaiting it, but I’m not sure how many people will actually use it. How many people use group […]

wikipedia tricks

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

If you love looking up that topic you are debating with your friend on wikipedia or if you simply like reading and contributing to the huge wiki that contains an enormous amount of knowledge then check out this list of wikipedia tricks.

Ray Ozzie

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Ray Ozzie, the designer of Lotus Notes and Groove and now Microsoft’s lead CTO has started blogging again.
This time he is blogging at msn spaces (which kinda makes sense)
(via Jordon Cooper blog)