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Is the iPad Apple’s Vista?

< warning >I’m not an Apple Fanboy, but I play one in this post< /warning >
Hardly, but I do have a point to make so hang with me.
In Windows Vista in 2007, Microsoft had rebuilt several portions of it’s operating system, installed a new device driver model & API, updated the UI for a more [...]


It depends…

Funny how many questions have answer that start with those two words. This tends to be exceptionally true of the coporatization of social media.

What if I call my boss a jerk on Twitter? It depends…
What if we find bloggers defacing our product images?  It depends…
What if my company finds me posting on Facebook when [...]


Undiscovered Opportunities of the C-Suite

Sometimes you don’t know what you have in front of you. The opportunity to change.
That’s what lies before today’s C-Suite executives if they choose to explore it. What I’m talking about here, of course, is really about relationships. With the advent of social computing in the second half of this decade, the [...]


Android, Gmail, and Thunderbird

With the knowledge that I’ll be moving to the T-Mobile G1 in the near future, I started thinking about my contact list. Yeah, the one I have in Outlook that I sync to my current Windows Mobile phone. But wait, there’s no sync client for Android phones.
However, in the case of the T-Mobile G1, [...]


Windows 7

Yep, Mike Nash announced it today on the Windows Vista blog. The next version of Microsoft Windows will be named: Windows 7
I like it, but then I’ve been accused of being a Microsoft fan-boy, so my opinion probably doesn’t count. It’s a name anyway, and darn early for a Microsoft OS release at that. [...]


The Final Piece?

Its no secret that I’ve long been a fan of Gmail. In fact, I moved my main email domain to Google’s hosted service about  two years ago. I’ve loved the flexibility, space, search, and tagging that are tightly incorporated into the service.
The only problem was a few niggling odds & ends. Not big issues [...]


Bye, Bye Microsoft Outlook

It’s time has come, or passed rather… at least for me.  I’m sure I’ll cross paths with my favorite email client and PIM in the future.  I’ll either have a change of heart (unlikely) or a future client will insist that I use it for internal email at their location (very likely).
For all those [...]


Outlook on syncing with Google: Excellent

It seems that Google itself has released a useful little utility that will sync your Microsoft Outlook Calendar with your Google Calendar. No, I don’t think hell has frozen over, but it’s gotta be colder there anyway.
You can read more on the utility over at Google’s “Calendar Help Center“. Or you can skip [...]


The one thing holding me to Microsoft Outlook

I’ve come to the conclusion that there is only one feature in Outlook that is holding me to it at the moment.  Can you help convince me that it’s time to drop Outlook?
See, I’ve been a longtime user and proponent of Microsoft software.  It’s actually really good software, and a decent value… for the [...]


Google leveraging their GMail address book

It’s perfectly natural, and something that we’ve wanted for some time.  Using the Google login for their online properties was the first step (and not finished mind you), but integrating the GMail address book, and adding basic sharing options is a huge step.
When we talk about social networks connecting people, we rarely take a close [...]


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