It’s time to reconsider, Google
Almost a year ago, Google made an apparently small change to Google Calendar. They started automatically adding Google Hangout video links to every new appointment. And it was bad. I’m sure you’ve all seen appointments like this pop up in your calendar. How do you join the meeting? Do you dial the phone number, or […]
Battle in the Clouds: Intelligence on Google Apps
Google Apps is used by more than 40 million people and signs up 5,000 new businesses every day according to numbers recently cited by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. But what do all those millions of people actually use Google Apps for, and how heavily do they use it? At Spanning we have a unique view into […]
Tungle: an Acquisition Tweet by Tweet.
Tungle CEO, 6 days ago: Hm… looks like a broken iPhone. Get a new one… but is getting a new phone really a life changing moment? @mgingrasMarc Gingras Time for a new smartphone.#lifechangingmoment 2 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Favorite Retweet Reply For Marc it is. And I doubt he’ll be using iPhone, […]
Now You Can Get Your Google Apps Data Backed Up for Free. Startup Econ 101: When Giving it Away is a Good Deal.
Ouch that’s a longish title. OK, I admit, I am tired, could not decide between two messages and ended up combining them. Well, let’s see the messages. The Art of Pricing The other day I got into a tweet convo with a Startup Entrepreneur whose product I found interesting, at least at first glance. But […]
Without Standards, the World Falls Down
This was meant to be a happy post. Unfortunately OggSync gets to bear the brunt of my frustrations over standards and portability. But first some background: I run a pretty busy schedule – to give you an idea of what that means in real terms I have 12 separate calendars – my manufacturing business alone […]
Google Labs: Can I Have My Event Colors in Calendar, Please?
Google Labs is a blessing: it allows the creation of useful new features that otherwise would possibly take forever to add… the downside that by turning “labs” on we all agree to be guinea-pigs. But there’s nothing new in that… The two Labs-related news today: Google Tasks has graduated, it’s no longer a Lab feature, […]
Living in the Clouds – Google Calendar
As a part of my Living in the Cloud series, I wrote about Gmail last week. This week, I am planning to write about Google Calendar and I will write about Remember The Milk, a todo application, next week. Google Calendar has been a boon for me both in my personal as well as professional […]
