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Gmail Contacts finally becomes useful

February 12, 2009 Google

If you’re a Gmail user like me, 2008 seemed like a lost year.  Google did give us the Google Labs features, many of which were nice tweaks, but there wasn’t a significant improvement to the core application.  2009, as you know has been quite different.  We’ve seen the addition of many significant features, with offline [...]

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Google Insights is one sweet analytics tool

August 7, 2008 Google

Image by Tamar Weinberg via Flickr

A couple of days ago, Google rolled out a new service called Google Insights for Search. The basic premise is that you can enter a search term, and Google will report back all kinds of useful data on that term, and related terms. There is an obvious use [...]

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It looks like Google is starting to open GrandCentral for business

February 22, 2008 Google

I’ve written in the past about GrandCentral, a web based service that aims to centralize your phone number management.  Google acquired GrandCentral last summer, and had shut off new user sign up.  Well, if you were waiting for an invitation, Google is now ready to give you access (from the Google Operating System blog):
If you’re [...]

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Merlin enlightens Googlers

July 27, 2007 Google

If you have wondered how to become more efficient with email, listen to Merlin (long, but worth watching):

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Is JotSpot finally ready to be unveiled by Google?

July 9, 2007 Collaboration

InsideGoogle is reporting that JotSpot may finally emerge from the Googleplex as a part of the Google Application Suite for enterprise customers.  It was just a few days ago that I expressed concern that JotSpot seemed to have fallen into some void at Google.  It’s good to hear that the wiki application may finally be ready [...]

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Grand Central invitations available

July 9, 2007 Cloud Computing

Although Google has acquired Grand Central, it looks like they are still allowing existing users to invite a few people into the beta site. So, if you are interested, please leave a comment, and I’ll send out an invitation. I’m not sure how many I have, so I’ll update this post when I [...]

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