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Google Adds Social Search

Dave Greenfield — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:43:41 +0000

A new experiment in Google Labs informs your search results with input from your social circle. Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public [...]

A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted

Dave Greenfield — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:15:11 +0000

I’ve been thinking about Net Neutrality for some time and wanted to get your thoughts and feedback on a solution that seems, well, so simple and obvious that I can’t believe nobody has proposed it. A bit of background before you dive-in. Before analyzing and tracking collaboration technologies, I spent about five years tracking the [...]

22 Tools to LifeLog Today

Dave Greenfield — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:01:36 +0000

Imagine never forgetting anything. You’d be able to recall that person’s name who you wanted to do business with at the tradeshow or just find those darn keys in the morning. That’s what LifeLogging (aka e-memory) tool is all about. While there was lots of news this week about how the technology will be [...]

LifeLogging and Love: A Fatal Combination?

Dave Greenfield — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:02:09 +0000

News this week came out about a new camera that will let you put your life online. LifeLogging, as this is called, may have adverse effects though for your health….

Survey: After Sidekick Failure Would You Buy Cloud Services?

Dave Greenfield — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:41:44 +0000

Microsoft confirmed this morning that it will begin recovering data for Sidekick users. The move caps off a week of turmoil for cloud computing advocates, which began with Microsoft’s Danger subsidiary announcing the loss of Sidekick data. You can read more about it here and the ensuing law suits here. Now its your turn to [...]

SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag

Dave Greenfield — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:44:50 +0000

What would you say is the most expensive part of a SharePoint deployment? A recent study by InfoTrends, a consultancy, identified where the money is being spent on SharePoint and where it’s not. The results may surprise you. So I was speaking the other day with Omri Duek, a consultant for InfoTrend. He knows a lot [...]

Google Adds Shared Folders to Docs

Dave Greenfield — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:32:25 +0000

Google announced today that it was adding shared folders to Google Docs. With shared folders any file placed in the folder is shared amongst people with access rights to the folder. To share a group of items, all you have to do is put them all into a folder and share the folder. As you’d expect, [...]

The Hook Up: Internet Dating Meets VoIP

Dave Greenfield — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:42:37 +0000

Oh, this is too funny. See what happens when you mash Internet dating and your phone system.

7 Ways to Boost Your Productivity By Playing Online

Dave Greenfield — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:25:37 +0000

So here you thought gaming was something to hide at work. Now comes new research to suggest that those who play online using the seven below activities actually exhibit higher productivity than those who don’t. The research comes from Dr Brent Coker of the Department of Management and Marketing over at the University of Melbourne. “People [...]

Android's Weakest Link

Dave Greenfield — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:42:11 +0000

Just as as a slew of Android-based phones are getting ready to hit the market, the open source mobile platform is facing its biggest challenge - itself. TechCrunch is reporting that Android developers are pretty pissed about having to support multiple code bases for each Android-based phone: We’ve spoken with a number of high profile Android application [...]