Twitterific!
I signed up for a Twitter account some time ago but I never used it. Looking through the posts, most seemed trite at best, but I was fascinated by the concept of micro-blogging. While blog posts put a certain pressure on the author to pound out at least 100 words or so, Twitter limits posts to 140 characters. It is like a cross between instant messaging and blogging, and I am convinced that there is a place in the workplace for such a tool. There is real productivity power in knowing the status of something (a bug, a project, a document, etc.), or “knowing what’s in progress” without having to disrupt someone’s workflow.
Testing Wordbook.
I have just installed Wordbook to try to add something of value to my Facebook profile. Vive Web 2.0!
Google Sites versus Sharepoint
Google Sites, after Gmail, is the strongest part of the Google Apps solution. On a feature by feature comparison, Google docs and spreadsheets pale in comparison to Microsoft Word and Excel (although the simplicity can be a benefit for some organizations). Google Sites, however, looks like it will be able to stand it’s ground against Sharepoint, at least from a user or business perspective. While some of the back-end developer pieces are missing, the features that business users are really interested in are all there. It is this piece of the Google Apps suite that will make it a serious competitor for Microsoft’s corporate customers. The proof is Microsoft’s announcement of a new line of managed services, a business which they are no longer leaving exclusively to their partners.