Mar 07 2010
Web Links and References (weekly)
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Google Agrees to Buy DocVerse for $25 Million – WSJ.com
Can’t help but wonder how much father Google wants to push into the SharePoint space…
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DocVerse’s software—which allows people to upload Microsoft Office files to the Web to edit them—could help Google transition Microsoft Office users to Google Docs, its spreadsheet and word-processing software, which also run online.
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Creating a bubble logo for your web site
“So you have just started your own website or blog and you are looking to make a logo or a header for yourself. Do you want to use cool bubble letters or another text style? You can either go to Photoshop, its open source equivalent, Gimp or an online generator to spit out your letters easily.”
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Netbook Reader: Library on your computer
“Even more amazing is a simple Adobe Air application for Linux, Mac and Windows which can give you almost instant access to any of these works. The somewhat confusingly named NetBook Reader is perhaps better called Netbook Library, because that’s what it is: an instant library for your netbook or any other computer. The Netbook Reader software allows you to quickly search all of Project Gutenberg and then read any text you find almost instantly. Best of all, it will cache content you download for offline reading later.”
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Run Your Own Free Proxy Through the Google App Engine – Google Apps – Lifehacker
“Finding a good proxy is difficult. You either have to run it yourself from your home computer or web server, or you’re left scavenging about for free proxies online. Instead, you can run one for free through the Google App Engine.”
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Kids don’t blog anymore? Maybe they never did.
“Another idea we haven’t seen mentioned anywhere yet is that it’s possible teens weren’t ever really into blogging to begin with. In Pew’s study, they count the blogs found within social networking sites along with what we would typically consider a blog”
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Feb 16 is the BBS’s 32nd birthday Boing Boing
I do so remember the good old days…
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Powerful Presentations : Productivity501
Some good basic tips on presenting.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.