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09 March 2010 ~ Comments

Google Apps Marketplace Announced

Google tonight announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The store will provide for applications that can be integrated into Google Apps. Intuit demonstrated their Payroll application built into Google Apps – using a single sign on and some integration of items (click to download paystub) to the calendar. Most of the applications demonstrated appear to [...]

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05 March 2010 ~ Comments

Google Wave Adds Email Notifications

This morning (actually Wednesday evening – but I just noticed it this morning) Google Wave went live with a new feature that allows for notification of new activity in waves you are participating in. The feature is activated via your inbox and will send an email based on a timeline (immediate, hourly, daily, never) that [...]

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16 November 2009 ~ Comments

Pingie Goes Down for the Count

Just this morning I was replying to my friend Mark about a service I’d used in the past to receive automated notifications when a web site posted a new story. My (former) favorite service that I’d recommended was pingie.com which allowed you to enter in an RSS feed and would send  a real time notification [...]

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13 November 2009 ~ Comments

Since you asked – here are impressions of using Google Apps for Domains after two years

Yesterday I received this email from a friend wondering what my thoughts were about ditching MS Exchange and going with Google Apps full time for email, documents, calendars, etc.
I’ve been a Google Apps for Domains user for about two years.  Prior to that I’d used Microsoft Exchange via an outsourced provider. Google Apps hosts my [...]

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