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Feb. 28, 2008 at 10:27am by Barry Schwartz
Google Sites Launches: Replaces Jotspot With Team Sharing Software
Google launched Google Sites, basically a relaunch of Jotspot but with many more features. In short, this new software allows teams to share much like you could with Microsoft's SharePoint. Google sites offers users five templates, as TechCrunch explains:...
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Jan. 5, 2008 at 11:19pm by Vanessa Fox
Google Docs Releases New Presentation Features
The Google Docs blog has announced new features for the Google Docs suite of tools. You can now create subfolders to more easily organize your documents and can rename documents and folders from the toolbar (previously, you could only do this from the File menu). The toolbar has also been...
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Dec. 18, 2007 at 9:03am by Greg Sterling
If You Know About Google Docs, You're In The Minority
According to a new survey of 600 "PC users" (and see here) by the NPD Group, 73 percent of Americans have "never heard of, never tried" web-based productivity software replacements for Microsoft Office. Roughly 21 percent have heard of but still never tried these alternatives, which include Google Docs and...
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Dec. 3, 2007 at 10:02am by Greg Sterling
Google Previews Expanded Docs Roadmap In Michigan
YourSearchAdvisor and TechCrunch report on a meeting sponsored by the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce last week for local businesses about forthcoming developments and enhancements for Google Apps and Docs. The speaker was Scott Johnston, former VP of Product Development at JotSpot, which was acquired by Google in late 2006....
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Nov. 26, 2007 at 9:02am by Barry Schwartz
New Signs Of JotSpot & Google Wiki?
JotSpot to replace Google Pages soon? from Googling Google reports recent activity spotted with some of Google's URLs. Tony Ruscoe wrote at a Google Blogoscoped Forum thread that http://pages-beta.google.com/a/google.com now contains the "service=jotspot" parameter in the URL. Google bought Jotspot in October 2006. Since then there have been rumors that...
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Oct. 17, 2007 at 8:08am by Greg Sterling
Google Docs Now Mobile
Google Blogoscoped reports that the rumored Google Docs for Mobile is now live. You can search on docs or peruse a list of your documents. However, only some document types are available for viewing. Right now "word" docs are available and so are spreadsheets (although they rendered somewhat awkwardly for...
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Oct. 1, 2007 at 9:37am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Office Live Workspace To Challenge Google Docs
Microsoft announced the beta launch of Microsoft Office Live Workspace. This is Microsoft's answer to Google Docs and will be a "web-based feature of Microsoft Office that enables people to access their documents online anywhere and easily share their work with others." Microsoft is currently accepting beta testers over here...
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Sep. 19, 2007 at 10:28am by Barry Schwartz
Google Presentations Security Issue Leaked Email Addresses
Nathan Weinberg reports that Google fixed a security issue with the new Google Presentations, which leaked user email addresses to the public. What happened was that when webmasters tried to embed presentations into their web pages, it would then log people into Google Talk via their Google Account. After they...
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Sep. 18, 2007 at 12:46am by Greg Sterling
Google Launches Presentations App & Ranames "Docs & Spreadsheets" To "Google Docs"
Tonight Google launched its long-awaited presentations tool as part of the ghastly named Docs & Spreadsheets suite. But smartly the company has simultaneously changed the name of Docs & Spreadsheets simply to Google Docs. It could equally have been changed to "Google Office," however, which the presentation software now appropriately...
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Sep. 11, 2007 at 8:12am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Casts Doubt On Google Enterprise Apps
Microsoft responded to the announcement of CapGemini support for Google Apps yesterday with a statement and a list of questions about Google Apps for the Enterprise -- or reasons potentially not to use them. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet has both, and the list of 10 questions/reasons is also at...
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Sep. 10, 2007 at 10:38am by Greg Sterling
Google Office Gains New Enterprise Credibility
Capgemini Backs Google's Software Push from the Associated Press covers how Paris-based tech and business consultancy CapGemini is going to start recommending and installing Google Apps on enterprise desktops, a move viewed as a big boost for Google's "office" application aspirations. CapGemini also works with Microsoft and IBM and "influences...
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Sep. 6, 2007 at 10:28am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Bundling Software, Apps In New "Windows Live Services"
Microsoft has rolled out something similar to the Google Pack software bundle called "Windows Live Services." Google Operating System has a lengthy (favorable) overview. The package includes mail and instant messaging, search toolbar, online storage, photosharing and blogging software, all from Microsoft. It operates as something of an extension of...
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Jul. 27, 2007 at 11:05am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft And Google Moving More Deeply Into Each Others' Businesses
Microsoft vows it won't let its core businesses be undermined by "the cloud." This article from the NY Times (and related discussion at Techmeme) quotes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying that Microsoft will compete aggressively with Google and other online alternatives to Office and will offer Web-based versions of all...
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Jun. 20, 2007 at 8:45am by Barry Schwartz
Google Acquires Zenter, Online Presentation Software Company
Google has announced that they have acquired Zenter, an online presentation software company. The acquisition will enable them to add presentation software to their Google Docs & Spreadsheets offering. In mid-April, Google purchased Marratech, a video conferencing company and purchased Tonic, a company that built software for presentation creation and...
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Jun. 1, 2007 at 8:34am by Greg Sterling
What To Make Of Google Gears
Being a non-developer I was a bit of a fish out of water at Google Developer Day yesterday. The event, which took place in the 10 countries where Google has offices, was intended to showcase Google Gears and the company's various APIs. I attended the event in California, which was...
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Apr. 20, 2007 at 8:47am by Barry Schwartz
Google Acquires Marratech's Video Conferencing Software
Google announced that they have acquired Marratech's video conferencing software (not the company, just its software)....
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Apr. 17, 2007 at 4:11pm by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft PowerPoint, Meet Google Presentations
Google adds presentation software to Google Docs from Reuters has Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirming the rumors that Google will be rolling out presentation software within the Google Docs suite....
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Apr. 9, 2007 at 5:31pm by Greg Sterling
Wired Q&A Interview With Eric Schmidt
Fred Vogelstein, who penned the semi-infamous "How Yahoo Blew It" piece for Wired Magazine, has a long Q&A style interview with Google's CEO Eric Schmidt in this month's issue. Here's a potentially more interesting earlier Vogelstein interview (previously unpublished) with Schmidt for comparison....
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Feb. 21, 2007 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Google Docs and Spreadsheets Tops Web Productivity Tools
Nielsen//NetRatings released a report [PDF] showing Google Docs and Spreadsheets have been the number one online productivity tools since October 2006. The report says that in November Google Docs and Spreadsheets "attracted 424,785 unique visitors and 432,156 unique visitors in December." The average time per visitor has "increased somewhat, from...
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Feb. 19, 2007 at 9:30am by Barry Schwartz
Google Docs & Spreadsheets Coming To Apps In Weeks
PC World reports that Google Apps will be adding Google Docs and Spreadsheets to the suite this quarter and possibly within a few weeks. We expected this to come sooner than later after Google decided to roll out fee-based Google Apps. PC World has quotes from lots of organizations that...
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Jan. 30, 2007 at 8:59am by Barry Schwartz
Google Officially Adds Docs & Spreadsheets Integration With Gmail
The Google Docs & Spreadsheets blog officially announced that when you receive an email in your Gmail account, and it contains a Google Docs or Spreadsheet file, the file should have a link to "Open as a Google Document." I am not sure if it opens all files or just...
