Here are 3 ways you can use in Google wave to house your task list and really increase your productivity. Most of these are simply 1. Task Tracking Wave Wave has a built in Task tracking wave template that allows you create lists and share them out. The collaborative nature of a wave allows teams [...]
Colorado and Iowa has planned to offer Google Apps to public schools across the states. Once the plan is implemented, more than 3000 schools will gain access to Google Apps (Gmail, Google Sites, Calendar, Docs, Groups, and Video). As said by Google, Apps helps students in building web sites of their own, drop an email [...]
Educause published a new report today entitled “Google Wave and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Impact on Higher Education” I have long believed that Google Wave was going to be huge in the classrooms, especially as we move forward and Google integrates with more tools (like social networking and the google me news that is in the [...]
“Due to recent member interest in Google Apps, particularly schools outsourcing their e-mail to Google, EDUCAUSE has collected many of the community’s questions and created a Google Apps FAQ wiki. http://www.educause.edu/wiki/Google+Apps+FAQ The Google Apps FAQ wiki includes these sections: – Financial – Legal, Privacy, and Security – Technical and Administrative – Support and Help Desk [...]
“No sooner did the idea that Facebook is challenging Google in search re-emerge than word of Google challenging Facebook’s social network dynasty came from none other than Digg co-founder Kevin Rose.” “Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon “Google”, very credible source.” “Chris Saad suggested Google Me is a build-out of [...]
Today Google released a “mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad to help you view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files you’ve uploaded to your documents list, without needing to download the file.” “With our mobile viewer you can switch quickly between pages and pan/zoom within a page. On your [...]
1. Collaboration 2. Import any web content 3. Share your project with the whole web 4. Access from anywhere, anytime, use offline 5. Leverage g docs’ folder system to organize your docs 6. Download your spreadsheet in any of the commonly-known formats. 7. Through Google oauth, explore new ways to use your spreadsheets through third-party [...]
SocialWayne, another local Raleigh guy wrote a great article up about ways to use Google Latitude, a new location-based service that Google introduced in the past year. His five points are: 1. Real-Time nearby friends sms notifications 2. Mobile employee tracking 3. Location-based content finding/sharing with Google Buzz 4. Family trip notifications 5. Create a [...]
1. Use Google as a personal finance and investment dictionary. 2. Use Google to find key economic Indicators. 3. Use the “site:” operator to limit searches to a particular site. 4. Use Google Finance to compare stocks and track performance. 5. Use the google search box as a calculator. 6. Get quick currency conversions for [...]
Everyone is saying that the closest competitor to the iPhone is the Droid X. This article has a great breakdown of the following points: – Operating System – Display – Processor – Network – Storage – Wireless Connectivity – Camera – Flash Compatibility – Battery Life – Size and Weight – TV Connection – Price [...]