Multidimensional Folders and Google Docs

File Management
One thing that is often compared is Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs. However, what is most often compared is the functionality, which is of course where Office clearly is superior. However, less often mentioned is how superior Google Docs is for maintaining and sharing files, which is where Google Docs has the advantage. After [...]

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Interesting Future of Communication Video

This is an interesting video that describes how media may change in the future.

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Funny Excerpt on Microsoft’s Demise

When a tyranny declines, there is almost nothing as satisfying. Microsoft held back the development of knowledge management for decades. Even now, most people have a hard time conceiving of distributed databases for information that interoperate (like WordPress) because the “document model” has been so firmly implanted in our minds. The “document model” creates information, [...]

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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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Forwarding from Hotmail

We had to post this because it is so amazing.
As is well known at this point, Hotmail is a weak email program that has problems on different browsers. Naturally, many people with Hotmail would like to forward their accounts to Gmail. However, we found something interesting when we tried to forward mail from an existing [...]

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iDrive my Computer in the Sky

Increasingly applications like WordPress, GoogleDocs, RemembertheMilk and other applications mostly in rich text, allow you to get a lot of work done from any computer without installing your applications on them. Increasingly this is allowing for a “computer in the sky.” Some tech leader declared years ago that “the network is the computer” is appearing [...]

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Why Google Docs Has Improved with Firefox Add In

Several months ago we wrote a post on why Google Docs missed the mark at knowledge management. One of the issues we had with Google Docs is the same issue we have with documents generally and that is that data is encapsulated and separated from other related material. We find the blog to be a [...]

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Why Google Docs Fails at Knowledge Management

Google’s Attempt at Document Management
Google does not get it wrong very often, but I have to say Google Docs has been a disappointment. This is not so much from a document functionality perspective, but from a document management perspective. Its not all Google’s fault of course. There is a basic confusion regarding how data [...]

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Books and Information Management

One really wonders what future books will have. We have been avid book readers all of our lives. However, we now find ourselves with 100s and 100s of books that are very rarely referenced or reread by us, and that are typically not anywhere close to us (due to constant traveling). The focus on making [...]

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