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Google: Think BIG with a gig

February 11th, 2010

Google is planning to launch an experimental network that will make internet access better and faster for consumers. Link to website Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,

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Tagged consumers, experimental network, fiber, gig, gigabit, Google, high speed, home connections, internet access, internet speeds, Network, speed broadband, youtube

My latest read – Ahead of the Curve

February 2nd, 2010

The title of Philip Delves Broughton’s Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School was interesting enough to jump on my reading list but when I began to see his book mentioned in blogs and on twitter I pulled it from my wish list and dropped it into my cart. It was not [...]

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Tagged banking, BMW, borderless world, broughton, case studies, competing in a flat world, daily telegraph, elite training, flat, flat world, future, Google, harvard business school, harvard commencement, harvard mba, jobs, losing touch, mba candidate, research, singapore, venture capital

Google Web Toolkit 2.0

December 20th, 2009

An overview of Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0, a tool with new updates that empower developers to write highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps. Pretty cool stuff. Tags: Web Toolkit, Google, Developers, datasets, innovation, technology, trends

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Google Apps for Los Angeles

October 29th, 2009

Life seems to be all about timing. Slashdot posted a story today that the City of Los Angeles has approved a 5 year, $7 million deal with Google to adopt Gmail and Google Apps for Business WITH money from a Microsoft class action lawsuit. Yet another organization migrating away from Novell GroupWise email. Tags: Google, Google [...]

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Tagged anti virus protection, city government, computing solution, docs, Google, google apps, groupwise, information, los angeles, message security, municiple government, novell, precious money, publishing web, storage integration, storage space, Technology, technology budgets, video storage, virus solution

Google’s AWESOME offer to K12 Schools

October 24th, 2009

Google has been helping K12 Schools and Colleges save money by giving free access to their powerful tools in an enterprise setting. Google began offering Gmail and have continued to add more tools to their suite specifically tuned for schools. Known as Google Apps for Education (GAE) this collection provides an excellent solution for schools [...]

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Tagged anti virus protection, college, computing solution, docs, Education, educational cooperatives, firstclass, Google, google apps, information, k12, k12 school districts, message security, northwestern university, precious money, publishing web, school district, school technology, storage integration, storage space, Technology, technology budgets, university case study, video storage, virus solution

Authors at Google: Chris Anderson

August 5th, 2009

Chris Anderson visits Google to present his book “Free” This event took place on July 9, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. My book review of Free. From the Google Author Series: He makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. [...]

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Tagged amazon, audiobook, chris anderson, culture, download, Education, gillette razor blades, Google, increased sales, innovative marketing, internet economy, monty python, quality clips, radical ideas, Reading, sales volume, scribd, sidebars, subscription rate, TED, trends, university education, wall street journal, worldwide subscription, youtube

My latest read – Free: The future of a radical price

July 18th, 2009

I just finished Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson. Enjoyed his book The Long Tail (review here) and learning about this radical idea in his 2008 Wired article, but I was skeptical. This book invites you to learn about “radical” sales techniques that have been around for some time but have [...]

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Adobe’s PowerPoint killer ?

June 10th, 2009

Billed as a collaborative slideware application Adobe Labs just launched Presentations. With Adobe's strong reputation with visual tools I was expecting a lot more. Desktop competitors PowerPoint and Keynote along with SlideRocket by comparison are much more robust presentation tools.

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Tagged adobe, analytics, Design, Education, flickr, Google, keynote, presentation tool, presentation tools, slide layouts, slide masters, slide presentations, sliderocket, slides, slideshare, Technology, visual, visual approach, visual tools, Web2.0

Wolfram|Alpha

May 16th, 2009

Wolfram|Alpha is launching tonight. It looks to be another step forward in Search. Billed by Wolfram as the “computational knowledge engine” the reviews so far are good. You can watch a powerful screencast showing the power of Alpha here. The launch does not mean Alpha is a Google killer as many have written, but rather a [...]

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Tagged alpha, engineering, Google, math, Network, science, search, search engine, Technology, trends, wolfram

Google Docs in education

August 6th, 2008

Big thanks to my most excellent colleague John Pederson at WiscNet about this video. Take a moment and listen to the testimonials all you administrative bean counters and computer directors. BTW: How many of you are facing budget cuts this year? Remember Google makes this solution to schools F O R F R E E. Tags: Google, [...]

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