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Cities Go Gaga for Google Fiber With Glowsticks! Flashmobs! Twistee Treats! An Icy Lake Jump!
collaborate." Most famously, Topeka's mayor issued a proclamation (on Google Docs, natch) that for the entire month of March, Topeka would be renamed Google, Kansas. Google 's announcement that it was contemplating a move into the ISP business with an ultra-high speed fiber network has sparked a municipal cage match. No one knows exactly how much Google plans to invest, but its reputation as cash giant alone has cities from Anchorage, Alaska, to Sarasota, Florida battling to become the search giant's new test market.
Fast Company - Thursday, March 11, 2010
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3 Ways to Make Outlook More Social?
It is becoming a collaborative space where the lines between Google Docs and other social applications start to blur. The Mainsoft service is a mash up between Google Docs and Outlook. Like most Outlook extensions, Harmony pulls Google Docs or Sharepoint into an Outlook sidebar. Microsoft Outlook has historically been at the heart of document-based environments that for many years have ruled the enterprise. But the walls that have guarded this document-based world are crumbling fast.
ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Futures of the Internet
doc forms, and extracting all the old formatting jive has been kind of arduous. Instead, they will work in Internet-based applications, like Google Docs, and in applications run from smartphones. Internet-based applications like Google Docs and applications run from smartphones will have some functionality, but the most innovative and important applications will run on (and spring from) a PC operating system. Earlier this year the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University conducted research toward The Future of the Internet IV , the latest in their survey series , which began with Future of the Internet I – 2004 .
Doc Searls Weblog - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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  • Remote Collaboration
    In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall? Let me admit that I'm likely in over my head when talking about methods and tools for collaboration. At the core, when I look at what a team needs, it's a pretty simple list: Real-time Voice Screen Sharing Document Editing (sometimes) Asynchronous Share / collaborate My primary interest here are the methods and tools that allow us to work better as part of remote work teams. I cannot claim to be an expert, and I feel like
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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  • DocVerse Turns Microsoft Office Into Google Docs With Collaboration Plug-In
    Collaboration on editing documents and spreadsheets is becoming a key feature in productivity suites with the emergence of Google Docs, Zoho, Etherpad and others. Even Microsoft is adding collaboration features to Excel in its new version of Office. While Microsoft is adding this limited functionality to its new version of office, DocVerse offers a plug-in for Word, PowerPoint and Excel Once downloaded, the DocVerse plug-in will appear on the right-hand sidebar of any Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel file. You can invite other users to collaborate with you, and
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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  • The Online Collaboration Tools Guide
    Collaboration tools and online storage applications offer many possibilities: online collaborative editing, synchronizing across computers, sharing multiple files and discussion boards, and sharing windows and documents on the spot, to name a few. The following review of major products in this space will help you choose the right collaboration tools for your needs . Sponsor This is a guest post by Eyal Sela , author of the productivity and Internet blog ProductiveWise .
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, April 16, 2009
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  • EtherPad Gets A Makeover And Becomes Even More Of A Threat To Google Docs (Invites)
    AppJet’s EtherPad, the real-time Google Docs-like wiki tool we wrote about last fall, has been upgraded to be prettier, more user-friendly and far more collaborative than before. EtherPad was the brainchild of former Googlers (who founded online programming tool and Y Combinator funded AppJet) who wanted a real-time, yet group oriented way to collaborate on notes and documents. Thus, EtherPad was born. We have 100 free beta invites to the premium version of EtherPad here.
    TechCrunch - Thursday, July 23, 2009
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  • You Collaborate On Web Docs. Now Collaborate On Web Designs With Notable.
    When companies have employees based in different locations, collaboration can often be difficult. But what if you want a team to collaborate and provide feedback on the development of content and features on websites and web platforms? At TechCrunch, we use Yammer to communicate. That’s where Notable comes in.
    TechCrunch - Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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  • Five Best Collaboration Tools [Hive Five]
    The internet has ushered in a level of collaboration unimaginable to workers of decades past. Today we're taking a look at five popular tools for collaborating with your team to get things done. Photo by ralphbijker . Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite collaboration tool , and now we're back with the five most popular tools for the job. Basecamp (Web-Based, Free-$149 per month) Basecamp is an easy-to-use, all-in-one collaboration dashboard for your team. To-do lists, calendars, brain-storming white boards, chat, and file sharing are all integrated into your Basecamp portal.
    Lifehacker - Sunday, December 20, 2009
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  • Real-Time Collaborative Editing
    A while ago I asked in several places if people knew of a text or document editor that would allow real-time collaborative editing during a conference session (or workshop, seminar, course, etc.). More on this below.) Doesn't Google docs already do all of this? When you have several people editing a document at the same time in Google Docs, it takes about 5 seconds for an edit My main requirements were: Easy to use Easy to distribute (give everyone a URL) No download required Support chat and document editing At the time, I didn't get very good responses. OneNote
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 20, 2008
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  • Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave) [Lifehacker Top 10]
    Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don't require learning a new way of speaking. For a certain kind of work, it's a real time saver, and it makes it easy to respond when your collaborators ask why their masterful lead-in sentence didn't make the cut. ( You can, of course, share, publish, and collaborate on your mental diagrams, and doing so might just save you a really unnecessary phone call or stop-and-chat. ( You've probably heard about a hard-to-get , hugely new service called Google Wave . Here are a few of our (mostly free) favorites.
    Lifehacker - Saturday, October 3, 2009
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  • Mainsoft’s Harmony Brings Google Docs To Microsoft Outlook
    Harmony is launching free plug-ins that bring Google Docs documents and Microsoft SharePoint document libraries directly to Microsoft Outlook. Once downloaded, Harmony for Google Docs will open in a sidebar pane within Outlook. Harmony also allows you to search document contents on Google Docs from the Harmony search box and locate documents using the View Bar, which allows you to switch between common views, such as Google’s recently announced $25 million acquisition of DocVerse represented one saga of an ongoing war between Google and Microsoft over dominance in the productivity suite place.
    TechCrunch - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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  • Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission
    According to the notice, this sharing was limited to people “with whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document” - a vague statement that sounds like it could add up to quite a few people. I’ve contacted Google for confirmation and haven’t heard back, but this seems to be legit - our tipster says that he had previously shared the document listed in his notice, but now it has been reset to show 0 collaborators (one of the precautionary measures mentioned in the note). In an apparent privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, we’re hearing that Google has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating that it may have inadvertently shared some of their documents with contacts who were never granted access to them.
    TechCrunch - Saturday, March 7, 2009
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