Tech Week in Review 4-23-2010
No Plans to Shut Down FriendFeed According to FriendFeed Cofounder Bret Taylor, FriendFeed will remain active in the near future. This is good for the scattering of users left behind since the service was purchased by Facebook for it’s talented staff. It seems that keeping FriendFeed going currently takes no effort on the part of [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft and Facebook Team Up to Get At Google Docs
One of the more interesting announcements from Facebook’s F8 conference is it’s partnership with Microsoft in creating Docs.com, a document collaboration and sharing site that seems quite similar to Google Docs and a few other services. Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 [...]
Read MoreNew Google Docs is Faster and More Collaborative
Google is announcing some pretty major updates to it’s Google Docs service. They have done some under-the-hood updates to improve the overall speed of the document editor and spreadsheet editor. In addition, Docs is starting to look more like Wave as far as collaborative editing and discussion around documents. These updates come as a result [...]
Read MoreGoogle Docs Adds Thumbnails and Spell-check
Google has made a few updates to Google Docs recently that could have a major effect on how you use it. A couple were just added today: Thumbnail view has been added to the Document list and spelling correction was added to the search feature. Thumbnails View and Search Spell-check The thumbnails view will help [...]
Read MoreOffice.com Goes Live. Nothing To See Here.
Microsoft’s shiny new domain Office.com went live today. When they first bought the domain earlier this month, the blogosphere went crazy with speculations about what they would be doing with it. Google pretty much owns the whole cloud concept, being able to store and edit your documents right on the web, so it seems logical that Microsoft will have to enter this territory at some point if they want to remain relevant.
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