Folders Instead of Tags?

I’m sure you caught the buzz earlier this week when Google announced big changes to their Docs & Spreadsheets product. There were three big changes announced, but the one that caught my eye truly caused me to do a bit of a double-take: They changed tags to folders.

Almost from the day we launched

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When the Price is Too Good…

We needed to buy 25 full-version licenses of a certain software product this week. After checking a few sites I decided to give my CDW contact a quick call. We chatted and after a couple iterations we had a quote that seemed pretty decent.

A co-worker suggested I give Amazon a look before making

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Ideas? Tracking Updates on Web Pages

Keeping up to date with a site that doesn’t offer some sort of notification system can be a real pain. While a lot of blogs and news sites will offer feeds and/or email notifications, the majority of sites still do not.

For both home and work use I’m trying to turn up a useful way

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Feed Reading and Perspective

Oh goodness, “Google Reader Suffers Down Time” and panic ensues! Seriously, the article is from TechCrunch, was posted at 2am and bemoans the fact that Google Reader isn’t updating feeds. Even worse, the outage last several hours.

Read the comments — folks are honestly freaking out. Good grief people, get a grip

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Google Gears Thoughts

I use Google Gears with Google Reader and find it works quite well. Yet it leaves me wanting so much more –both in capabilities and additional Gears enabled web applications.

A Refresher

In case you’ve missed all the shouting:

Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using

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