Area for Chrome to Improve – Integration to Gmarks

As you can see from our previous post, we are big Google Chrome fans. However, one area that really should be improved is the importation of bookmarks.
Gmarks
We manage our bookmarks in Gmarks which is accessible through a Firefox plug-in. Not only can Chrome not see our Gmarks….which is a bad oversight by Google, since they [...]

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Google Chrome Excellent at History Management

Its certainly not a new thing, history management is old hat for browsers. However, the Chrome does it reinforced the idea that Google always seems to come up with better ways of doing things that we used to do previously. They must be one of the best at evolutionary approaches.
Other browsers like Firefox have [...]

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Why SharePoint for RSS?

As we have been researching different areas of RSS, we have been coming up on articles on RSS and SharePoint. NewsGator in particular has built several of its product to inter operate with SharePoint. We understand the marketability aspects, however having come off of a project where SharePoint was the central document repository, and seeing [...]

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Data Sharing in Science

In this video, which describes the Science Commons Scolar’s Copyright Project.

We quote.
“…modern technologies give us a way to go forward….this is the type of sentence you see in the life sciences. Its very complex and its very detailed.
What you will notice is that it does not have links….here is what happens if you add [...]

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Box.net Drive in the Sky 2

The Future of File Management
We are most impressed with Box.net. One of the reasons is its searchbox capability. This is one thing that using an FTP client does not do for you, its just very highly usable. It needs to be, because we would prefer to use the extra space on Gmail which can be [...]

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Future of the Web – Tim Berners Lee

If there is one thing we have learned it listen to Tim Berners Lee. If you look back and read his previous writings, and then compare it to where things are now, TBL is always on the money.
If the web had developed along his plan, instead of being misdirected by corporate needs and by [...]

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Excellent Data Analysis Site

After our last post on the difficulty in finding raw data online, we happened upon Swivel, which is where people upload data sets. This is exactly the type of site that is needed and should receive a grant from the Federal government as a way to help increase transparency in society, companies and the government [...]

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Firefox is Now The Most Durable Browser

We use 5 different browsers at any one time on our Macs (plus Chome on our PC). The reason being is that using different browsers is a great way to organize a series of open tabs. You can associate browsers with groupings of web pages an specific online applications. Our setup looks like this:

OmniWeb [...]

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