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Google Notebook and Tasks

Google Notebook and Tasks

Over the last couple of months, I have written a series of postings about my experience with Google Apps. I used Google Apps as a test to assess usability of the hosted office productivity applications and to look for opportunities where they may be deployed in a corporate setting. Over all this was a positive experience, and I thought the Google solution is viable for smaller companies that have limited resources and infrastructure. The more I have thought about the application…

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Update: The New Search Buzz: Cuil.com

Update: The New Search Buzz: Cuil.com

I wanted to see if the disappointing results I experienced on “Newest Search Engine That is Bigger and Better Than Google”, http://www.cuil.com/, was a server load issue or just marketing hype. The exposure that Cuil received has been nothing short of an Internet wildfire that has made every marketing professional go green with envy… I started my review of this site yesterday, and it can be found just a few postings down from this one (or you can click here,…

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The New Search Buzz: Cuil.com

The New Search Buzz: Cuil.com

A new search engine is making waves around the Internet, and it is called Cuil (www.cuil.com). The undercurrent seems to be setting Cuil up as the next big search engine. My first reaction was “come on, no one can beat Google“, but I then remembered that I was saying the same thing about Yahoo when Google arrived. Cuil (pronounced “cool”) has been quoted as saying that their search engine is bigger and better than Google’s. A very big statement if…

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What is the future of communication?

What is the future of communication?

My rant from Yesterday made me think about the future of communications. Currently, we have e-mail, SMS and IM as the three dominate forms of non-spoken electronic communication. I poked around the Net and landed on a press release from Gartner about the mobile messaging market. The numbers blew me away. They estimate mobile messages will exceed 2 trillion messages in 2008. This is close to a 20% increase from 2007 levels. I did not find estimates, from sources I…

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