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Google Docs celebrates Valentines Day

Jacob — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:57:49 +0000

Google Docs is an online service that provides a word processor, spreadsheet application, and a slide show program. It is available as part of Google Apps, for a specific team, or directly from Google.

Today I visited Google Docs to upload a document with a sugar cookie recipe, and I found that they’ve gone pink for the day. I did’t know the Google Docs folks were so into Valentines Day, but it looks like they’ve got pleanty of love to share.

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Leapord iCal Server to support Outlook?

Jacob — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:12:33 +0000

With the latest release of OS X Leapord being released soon, I thought I would take another look at some of the features of Leapord server. One of the things I’ve been anticipating is the new calendaring server. Apple says that the new server “works well with others,” but maybe not as well as they were first saying. It seems that Apple who was once touting Microsoft Outlook compatibility is now being quite hush about it. Consider this sentence from their old iCal Server features page:

iCal Server uses open calendaring protocols for intergrating with leading calendar programs, including iCal 3 in Leopard, Mozilla’s Sunbird, OSAF’s Chandler, and Microsoft Outook.

The same sentence recently changed to omit any reference to outlook:

iCal Server uses open calendaring protocols for intergrating with leading calendar programs, including iCal 3 in Leopard, and popular CalDAV clients from Mozilla, Open Source Application Foundation and others.

So what does this change mean? Seeing as Outlook interoperability was one kick trash feature, the fact that it is now omitted from the features page probably means that it isn’t going to happen. Which is way too bad. We can only wonder what bounced Outlook out of the release party. Was it too hard to develop or support an Outlook plugin? Or were there patent or other legal issues? We can hope, however, that maybe we will be delivered Outlook interoperability in some future release.

If you want a calendar for your organization, you could try Google Apps for Your Domain. It includes Google’s calendar product, and any user with a modern web browser can use it. The user interface is really quite excellent. It doesn’t, however, provide excellent connectors to and CalDAV calendar clients.

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Suggestion for Google Talk Widget

Jacob — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:02:17 +0000

I noticed recently that Google has a web page widget for Google Talk. I have one major suggestion:

I manage an instance of Google Apps for Your Domain. It would be more than great if Google could work out an instance of the Talk Widget to work with a Google Apps domain. The widget could be either added to the customized Google Apps homepage, or it could even be added to another homepage for the domain.

This would add value to the Google Apps offering.

Another suggestions I have for using Google Talk as part of Google Apps is that the nicknames used with the Gmail component of Google Apps should also be used as nicknames for Google Talk. This way when I create and give out a nickname in my domain’s gmail, my associates can use that nickname to talk to me on Google Talk as well.

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