I'm seeing a few subtle and not so subtle changes in GMail tonight. 1) Quicker message loading 2) New graphics (the yellow type found in Google Reader) at the top of the screen for loading messages 3) New contacts manager which is very slick and a great upgrade 4) The ability to add an event invitation when composing or replying to messages. Nothing revolutionary, but pretty neat tweaks given last week's big inclusion ...
Interesting new book-in-progress by Siva Vaidhyanathan with the subtitle "How one company is disrupting culture, commerce, and community - and why we should worry."This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's excellent piece called "Scroogled" which supposes what would happen if (when?) Google goes evil. Fun stuff to ponder as I surf through my GMail and Google Reader and GCal and Google Notebook and Google Desktop and... well... you get ...
Anna and I drove down to Columbia to see Jon and Stepanie's new baby and are staying at their house for the night. Columbia is much hotter than Asheville still... just in case you were wondering. It is nice to see the city finished the renovation of Main Street, and it looks charming. Jon says they've also completed the grueling 5 Points construction project and I'll be checking ...
I write a lot of documents. Let me clarifity that... I write a TON of documents, spreadsheets and even presentations. However, I've always hated Microsoft Office, so I've constantly sought out ways to get around using that clumsy and inefficient piece of software. Originally, I came across Writely and loved it. I even had Anna using Writely for a few months. Then, Writely ...
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