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Thoughts and things I care to shareIs Microsoft Driving Innovation Or Playing Catch-Up With Rivals? – WSJ.com
The Wall Street Journal has a nice debate-style article with input from Robert Scoble and Dave Winer. Debating on the idea of whether Microsoft innovates or not.
Not sure that there is a clear answer there, but it certainly brings out some very good points, and perspectives.
Via: The Wall Street Journal – Is Microsoft Driving Innovation Or Playing Catch-Up With Rivals?
Zoho brings online integration to Microsoft Office
Wow, great news for those of you who have embraced the modern world of online applications and document storage!
Zoho has interoperability with Microsoft Office via a downloadable plugin that allows Office users to save Word & Excel documents directly to their Zoho account. This functionality helps blur the line between remotely hosted and local applications.
“People are asking for this,†Vegesna said. “Currently they have to go to Zoho.com, login, and upload documents. We have them doing this an average of five times per day. This will let them go straight to Zoho without having to go to Zoho.com, upload, etc.â€
Zoho is also opening its API’s so that online storage providers could tap into the Zoho engine and provide more seamless integration of storage options.
I’ve been using Zoho (and Google Docs & Spreadsheets) for most of 2006. There are definite differences between the offerings, but Zoho has made the most progress towards an integrated feature-rich office suite. By offering the ability to upload/download documents directly to your Zoho account – their product becomes even more useful and productive.
This new feature is compatible with Office 2000, 2003, and 2007 by the way.
Via: TechCrunch – The Real Office Live: Zoho Bridges Online And Offline Office App’s
Stephen Hawking’s Next Goal: Space Travel
I always love hearing things from Stephen Hawking. He’s always got an interesting point of view and keeps his descriptions simple for us mere mortals. His one great wish seems to be experiencing space travel.
The scientist revealed he also wanted to try out space travel himself, albeit by more conventional means.
“I am not afraid of death but I’m in no hurry to die. My next goal is to go into space,” said Hawking.
And referring to the British entrepreneur and Virgin tycoon who has set up a travel agency to take private individuals on space flights from 2008, Hawking said: “Maybe Richard Branson will help me.”
There is quite a bit in the interview with BBC covered by ExtremeTech.
Via: ExtremeTech – Stephen Hawking’s Next Goal: Space Travel
Vinyl CDs?!?
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Check these out!
Via: jkOnTheRun – Verbatim CD-Rs go gold, er vinyl
Review of Feedburner by Aaron Brazell
If you’ve been interested in how well Feedburner handles serving feeds, you may be interested in Aaron Brazell’s review.
His perspective in this review, is from the point of view of a blog network – b5media – which pumps several dozen feeds through the service. Because of the number and variety of feeds, the needs are unique, there are some items on his “wish list” that just don’t apply to individual bloggers.
Goods stuff Aaron!
links for 2006-11-29
- jkOnTheRun has another fun gadget they’ve opened up!
A year of Personal Brand
About a year ago I ran across a post by David Lorenzo, author of the book Career Intensity. The post was called Managing Your Personal Brand, and it started me thinking differently about how I presented myself to others. There were other posts from a number of great people on the web that added to this (simply Google Personal Brand), and expanded the concept as well.
So here a year later, I’ve been practicing this philosophy to good effect. I’ve been happy with the results that I’ve achieved over the past year, and was reminded of the post today as he linked back to the original.
Good read if you’re interested in personal improvement.
Via: Career Intensity Blog – Managing Your Personal Brand
Can a Windows user survive without Windows?
Alright, its that time of year again when I start wondering if I can make Linux box my main computer. I’m going to try just that for the month of December, use Fedora Core 6 as my main OS, and try to stick to using all web-based tools for the majority of my needs.
I’ll admit to everyone right up front, I will keep my desktop system on Windows XP with Office 2003, mainly because I occasionally need Photoshop, Visio, and one or two other unique apps. But I’ll try to do as much natively in Linux as possible.
I’ve a favor to those of you who are interested – can you give me suggestions on the following? I’m looking for these tools on Linux to help ease my December sojourn into Linux.
- Blogging tool, similar to Windows Live Writer or w.Bloggar
- Graphics tool in place of Photoshop (yes I’ll be giving Gimp a go [again])
- Screen capture tool similar to Techsmith Snagit
- <more to come>
Any comments, suggestions, jeers or cheers can go in the comments. I’ll be backing up my data from my Vista laptop, wiping the HDD, and installing FC6 this week.
links for 2006-11-27
- FeedCycle looks like a neat way to serialize content in an RSS feed.
- Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday… All told, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington approved six exemptions, the most
- Samsung has a new toy to show off!
- The best quote in the story comes from Rubyred Labs co-founder Jonathan Grubb, who proclaims ‘The coffee shop has replaced the garage for internet start-ups. ” I’m not sure whether this statement talks more to the coffee shop culture that has flourished i
Zune: What the public chooses to see
I have to agree with Thatedeguy, the Zune is a great first outing for Microsoft in the portable music player field. Its greatest failing is that its a Microsoft product, and that it is competing against an entrenched favorite in the market.
In his analysis, Thatedeguy points out how the mainstream media picks the device apart, and does not seem to give it a fair play. Gadget gurus on the other hand, have reviewed the device, software, functionality and have found it to be a worthy competitor.
Via: Thatedeguy – iPod Perception vs. Zune Reality
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@MAC_Arms Pay taxes when you make your money, pay taxes when you spend your money, pay taxes when you successfully invest your money, pay taxes when you save enough taxed money to afford a house, pay taxes to live in your house, pay taxes when you sell the house that you paid taxes on to
Yup, taxes are criminal and we need serious reforms. I've always said that if you want to see a tax revolt, make withholdings illegal and have Americans write a tax check every payday. They'll revolt for sure. You don't miss what you never had.
I think it’s safe to say that @GovEvers should stop blocking audits in Wisconsin and open the books…
“Only AMERICAN citizens should vote.”
Sen. @berniemoreno says voter ID and proof of citizenship are simply common sense.
“We’re talking about a very low threshold — identify who you are and prove you’re a U.S. citizen when you register to vote. I think we’re getting closer to
Wrong. Democrats are solely responsible for hours-long airport lines.
They voted to defund TSA three times and won’t even entertain a conversation about reopening it. Why?
They’re using it as leverage to stop enforcing immigration laws.