I create reports for my job and I'm not sure if I've ever used excel to create a chart. I've created charts generally in Word as part of a report or in outlook and ever more in PowerPoint but rarely if even in excel. (Yes I know it all uses and builds on the shell game that is excel). A chart in Excel does me and others little good. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw chart capability in google spreadsheet built into other parts of google (pages, blogger, writely,) they clearly have the capability to make charts (ad sense analytics and the like) so it wouldn't be much of a jump for cross platform chart integration.
p.s. google sheets is to slow to use so charts aside it is useless.
Make your kids pay for gas; they would have to work an hour (probably more) as the local burger flipper just to pay for 2 gallons of gas which means they won't be traveling all that far in the Guzzler you bought them. Thus their driving is restricted and your not the one that did it, thus you are safe for criticism and they won't be leaving the area. QED
Google's owned this for a while, they haven't done much with it, until they moved it into official Google purgatory err I mean beta. Hopefully this means they will do something with it that makes it more useful although I don't want it to change, the speed and simplicity make this useful. I can write an article and share it with my editing group before I submit it.
For the businesses won't like this product crowed, I'm not sure that Writely is for businesses. Sarbanes Oxley would seemingly prevent this for use in many companies and who wants to keep memos about book cooking on the net anyway that makes them easy to find. Of course I cannot think of a company who trusted their documents to a beta product that would be dumb.
This product seems more geared to groups, clubs and education. It would be great to be able to write a paper share it with the professor then check his or her comments in the same place. All the while not caring if the paper you plan on putting on your blog is on Google's serves a few extra times.
Everything Google launches is to build their ability to advertise in the future. IE their music tracking thing that launched today (or yesterday). Google pages, it is easy to have the content then find and search, plus putting ads in is easier when you control the template.
I conjecture that they are using these services to track trends and usage to use with their advertising. If they can give you a accurate profile of people who search for "lop eared rabbit" (they tend to listen to jazz, write blogs about their kids, send emails to family and friends, they have only a few documents on their computers, etc...) then the advertising can be more complex than key words.
The current state of advertising is poor, last time I Googled office supplies I needed the name of the office supply store down the road, I wasn't looking for ads. Generally I know what I am looking for Google is the Easy way to find it. I'm looking for Office Max I'm not concerned about an Office Depot. But if Google knew there was a White Castle between me and Office max and that I also listened to Hard Rock and that Hard Rock fans like White Castle they can show me that ad instead of a Staples ad. They are attempting to build advertising profiles and they use new stuff to build profiles and watch data spread. They are as much sociologists as they are programmers.
How about we lable this about darn time. I like blogger... I use blogger... It's been one of the least trashy blog services by trashy I mean I don't want to post something remotely thoughtful at a.livejournal account. Blogspot is much nicer sounding.
None of the users searched for me... How depressing.
Although one guy (or gal) searched for ew.google.comwww.google.cojm. I contacted google and they said they don't use the.cojm extension. also note 318 pages for google results.
I use the firefox plugin made by McAfee from http://siteadvisor.com/ it labels results in Google with a color coded system based on a few ratings. They test on website safety (pop ups, fraudulent practices, browser exploits), safety of downloads and spam on submit information. Google's new feature breaks that and is less informative.
I think Google is doing something good but I'm not sure their execution is the best. I would hope it would be a search preference but I guess it's in googles best interest to keep spyads down and their ads up not to mention the faster we can surf the more Google ads we see. I also don't imagine it would be long before Ads show up on the warning pages. I wish there was more info on testing and rating for the system.
These computers help give the ability for children to get an education. In many countries having a pencil or pen is a requirement for a child to go to school at the lowest level. Now imagine several million kids can now go to school because they have a way to write, do math and more. It goes further; these kids will now have a requisite skill for higher education, word processing. Many a smart kid has been blocked from college success because they cannot type or do computer research. OLPC will give children a chance to have a chance for higher education. It is a brilliant idea. Sure a few hackers may be created but America's public schools create plenty of those anyway, one of the OLPC children may even create useful security software someday.
This is very good and useful for the sight impaired and for those who like to avoid websites which are design impaired.
I do however wonder how relevant this is, I could achieve similar results with an RSS reader, Firefox and/or a few GreaseMonkey Scripts. Compared to a normal webpage it would seem easier for the Reader to speak the print version so I could use the Firefox extension that forces CNN stories to open in print view. I could also subscribe to just their RSS feeds and get the stories I want on text only pages; the same is true of blogs. I'm sure there would be a way to add RSS feeds to lyric websites, and then Google could put an RSS feed search together. This seems like a better (more forward thinking solution). *disclaimer I have never used a reader nor am I a web guru this is an idea.
Eventually search will run like buying a car, I will choose site options (no-popups, easy on the easy, 5 ads per page, no audio, member of the Better Business Bureau) then I will search for what I want and it will bring back sites. This will help weed out irrelevant and wasteful results my results can be as clean I want, it won't be based on other people it will be based on codes and rules, web2.0 is a gimmick which will be short lived.
p.s. remember when web search involved driving to the library to pick up the latest list of sites you could 'dial up' and then searching the index for somethign cool.
Maybe they should make commercials 8 times as slow and make them 8 times as long so when you fast forward at 8x speed their commercial plays at a normal rate. That would solve their problem and be asinine enough for them to like.
I thought this was about the other free music college students turn down... the live type with string instruments, brass instruments and choirs.
Its ironic college kids turn down all types of free music except free to illegally copy type.
This has been done, it's what Fast-food does, and it's what starbucks does. They push out products (or stores in SB's case) and see what thrives and what dies. SB opens stores near each other to see what location works best; the initial idea was to kill the lower performing stores (because you are all coffee gluttons there are no lower performing stores).
It is unusual that a tech company would use this model but why not.
As I always say Google is about tracking data and trends to watch things spread. These tools help that and are fun. Each launch they get to watch were, how and with whom the word spreads. They are building their eventual data business sales up, they will sell this information to companies who can use it.
Google wants to track data flow; they want to see how you get to sites, what you look at and what you buy. This system allows them to watch how money flows in a controlled market place.
I would assume eventually they will hold money and you can buy and sell with it. IE you could give your kids 100$ in their account, they could buy a DVD for 15$ and now have 85$ but sell two CDs at 10$ each and have 110$. This will eventually eliminate the $.20 fee (or make it Google profit).
It will be come a commodities market of sorts, I will watch Tom Cruise jump up on a couch and decide TC movies will become hot sellers so I will quickly move my money to take ownership of his films and put them up for sale at a higher price. You people will buy them from me and I will have a profit which I will re-invest in Hillary for President bumper sticker because I think those will become popular. No transactions will appear on my credit card statement, I will have essential bought a commodity with Google money, which I can cash out like stocks.
I will buy when nintendo combines this with the power pad. You acctually have to walk to move in an FPS or walk and jump in mario. Talk about a work out, maybe bring back the guns and combine all three for the ultimate FPS game or sensory over load I'm not sure which one.
I did a quick and dirty price comparison with my weekly Kroger add + coupons and found Amazon to be more expensive. That is also to say that Sams Club, Costco, and other bulk places are more expensive because you cannot use a coupon. I must include I'm the type to shop where my $.5 coupons double so coupons are worth a lot.
If I could use my $.50 (doubles to a 1.00) off 6 boxes of Mac and cheese on a bulk 24 pack of Mac and Cheese 4 times over ( I save 4 dollars on 24 packs which make it 16.90 on Amazon) I would shop bulk but right now it's less cost efficient.
I feel like this article is out of the late 80's with those to companies in the title. BRING BACK THE FISH CAM! users can control that plastic diver who swims in the tank.
I'm not sure this strays from Google's business model. It makes their job easier; they want to organize the world's information. Their products make sense under this, if they can help you create the information they can more easily organize it. They don't have to deal with Microsoft formats or lotus apple format if you use Google format it's easy for Google to organize what you wrote. If they store it it's easier for them to find it and organize it.
Also I strongly believe Google is a social project. They want to see how information is used and spread. Their invite a friend system seems usable for tracking how and where invitations spread. How did the first 500 users get gmail? Who did they pass it to? This is a way to refine and redefine the internet landscape. If they can predict who the power groups are they can use them to pass on viral information. Google can create something then watch it spread across the internet in a predicted pattern. That information would be valuable to anyone.
They need to create the ability to create information to organize. Then they want to predict information and connections.
MS cannot install an outbound firewall, well they could but it would lead to a lawsuit. If they put an outbound firewall on the systems they would automatically set certain programs to be allowed through (IE, MS Instant Messenger, MS office, Outlook, etc.), they would block Real player, AIM, Google's Messenger, Firefox, etc. They would install the software, per the anti-trust agreement, but block it so it's as good as not installed.
They know they are on the anti-trust edge and probably don't want to push themselves over.
Maybe they are smart?
My University discouraged email forwarding by telling professors only to reply to messages from the student's.edu accounts. They Uni wanted to keep track of our system usage; we changed email apps 3 times in 4 years. They would be the type of Uni to use and love this system, force an IE Start page on the students. Of course at the start of each year we got a CD with corporate virus software, spy ware apps and Firefox so it might not work well.
It would be great if I had the option of nicknaming address. I want to type the where as work and it recognize that I work at 1 main street, NSAville, Ohio. That way I only have to type in work to get my map or Tom's to get to Tom's bar that way I won't have to remember the address for Tom's I could already have programed it into my settings.
I also want it to give me map directions starting from the location of my previous appointment. That is if the appointments are concurrent.
Microsoft's slogan for Vista
"Microsoft Vista... Patches in a week"
On hearing that many people will upgrade based on security reasons.
What I'm saying is that Microsoft is playing politics with patches so you are more likely to upgrade.
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I create reports for my job and I'm not sure if I've ever used excel to create a chart. I've created charts generally in Word as part of a report or in outlook and ever more in PowerPoint but rarely if even in excel. (Yes I know it all uses and builds on the shell game that is excel). A chart in Excel does me and others little good. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw chart capability in google spreadsheet built into other parts of google (pages, blogger, writely,) they clearly have the capability to make charts (ad sense analytics and the like) so it wouldn't be much of a jump for cross platform chart integration. p.s. google sheets is to slow to use so charts aside it is useless.
Make your kids pay for gas; they would have to work an hour (probably more) as the local burger flipper just to pay for 2 gallons of gas which means they won't be traveling all that far in the Guzzler you bought them. Thus their driving is restricted and your not the one that did it, thus you are safe for criticism and they won't be leaving the area. QED
Google's owned this for a while, they haven't done much with it, until they moved it into official Google purgatory err I mean beta. Hopefully this means they will do something with it that makes it more useful although I don't want it to change, the speed and simplicity make this useful. I can write an article and share it with my editing group before I submit it. For the businesses won't like this product crowed, I'm not sure that Writely is for businesses. Sarbanes Oxley would seemingly prevent this for use in many companies and who wants to keep memos about book cooking on the net anyway that makes them easy to find. Of course I cannot think of a company who trusted their documents to a beta product that would be dumb. This product seems more geared to groups, clubs and education. It would be great to be able to write a paper share it with the professor then check his or her comments in the same place. All the while not caring if the paper you plan on putting on your blog is on Google's serves a few extra times.
Everything Google launches is to build their ability to advertise in the future. IE their music tracking thing that launched today (or yesterday). Google pages, it is easy to have the content then find and search, plus putting ads in is easier when you control the template. I conjecture that they are using these services to track trends and usage to use with their advertising. If they can give you a accurate profile of people who search for "lop eared rabbit" (they tend to listen to jazz, write blogs about their kids, send emails to family and friends, they have only a few documents on their computers, etc...) then the advertising can be more complex than key words. The current state of advertising is poor, last time I Googled office supplies I needed the name of the office supply store down the road, I wasn't looking for ads. Generally I know what I am looking for Google is the Easy way to find it. I'm looking for Office Max I'm not concerned about an Office Depot. But if Google knew there was a White Castle between me and Office max and that I also listened to Hard Rock and that Hard Rock fans like White Castle they can show me that ad instead of a Staples ad. They are attempting to build advertising profiles and they use new stuff to build profiles and watch data spread. They are as much sociologists as they are programmers.
How about we lable this about darn time. I like blogger... I use blogger... It's been one of the least trashy blog services by trashy I mean I don't want to post something remotely thoughtful at a .livejournal account. Blogspot is much nicer sounding.
None of the users searched for me... How depressing. Although one guy (or gal) searched for ew.google.comwww.google.cojm. I contacted google and they said they don't use the .cojm extension. also note 318 pages for google results.
I use the firefox plugin made by McAfee from http://siteadvisor.com/ it labels results in Google with a color coded system based on a few ratings. They test on website safety (pop ups, fraudulent practices, browser exploits), safety of downloads and spam on submit information. Google's new feature breaks that and is less informative. I think Google is doing something good but I'm not sure their execution is the best. I would hope it would be a search preference but I guess it's in googles best interest to keep spyads down and their ads up not to mention the faster we can surf the more Google ads we see. I also don't imagine it would be long before Ads show up on the warning pages. I wish there was more info on testing and rating for the system.
These computers help give the ability for children to get an education. In many countries having a pencil or pen is a requirement for a child to go to school at the lowest level. Now imagine several million kids can now go to school because they have a way to write, do math and more. It goes further; these kids will now have a requisite skill for higher education, word processing. Many a smart kid has been blocked from college success because they cannot type or do computer research. OLPC will give children a chance to have a chance for higher education. It is a brilliant idea. Sure a few hackers may be created but America's public schools create plenty of those anyway, one of the OLPC children may even create useful security software someday.
This is very good and useful for the sight impaired and for those who like to avoid websites which are design impaired. I do however wonder how relevant this is, I could achieve similar results with an RSS reader, Firefox and/or a few GreaseMonkey Scripts. Compared to a normal webpage it would seem easier for the Reader to speak the print version so I could use the Firefox extension that forces CNN stories to open in print view. I could also subscribe to just their RSS feeds and get the stories I want on text only pages; the same is true of blogs. I'm sure there would be a way to add RSS feeds to lyric websites, and then Google could put an RSS feed search together. This seems like a better (more forward thinking solution). *disclaimer I have never used a reader nor am I a web guru this is an idea.
Eventually search will run like buying a car, I will choose site options (no-popups, easy on the easy, 5 ads per page, no audio, member of the Better Business Bureau) then I will search for what I want and it will bring back sites. This will help weed out irrelevant and wasteful results my results can be as clean I want, it won't be based on other people it will be based on codes and rules, web2.0 is a gimmick which will be short lived. p.s. remember when web search involved driving to the library to pick up the latest list of sites you could 'dial up' and then searching the index for somethign cool.
Maybe they should make commercials 8 times as slow and make them 8 times as long so when you fast forward at 8x speed their commercial plays at a normal rate. That would solve their problem and be asinine enough for them to like.
I thought this was about the other free music college students turn down... the live type with string instruments, brass instruments and choirs. Its ironic college kids turn down all types of free music except free to illegally copy type.
This has been done, it's what Fast-food does, and it's what starbucks does. They push out products (or stores in SB's case) and see what thrives and what dies. SB opens stores near each other to see what location works best; the initial idea was to kill the lower performing stores (because you are all coffee gluttons there are no lower performing stores). It is unusual that a tech company would use this model but why not. As I always say Google is about tracking data and trends to watch things spread. These tools help that and are fun. Each launch they get to watch were, how and with whom the word spreads. They are building their eventual data business sales up, they will sell this information to companies who can use it.
Google wants to track data flow; they want to see how you get to sites, what you look at and what you buy. This system allows them to watch how money flows in a controlled market place. I would assume eventually they will hold money and you can buy and sell with it. IE you could give your kids 100$ in their account, they could buy a DVD for 15$ and now have 85$ but sell two CDs at 10$ each and have 110$. This will eventually eliminate the $.20 fee (or make it Google profit). It will be come a commodities market of sorts, I will watch Tom Cruise jump up on a couch and decide TC movies will become hot sellers so I will quickly move my money to take ownership of his films and put them up for sale at a higher price. You people will buy them from me and I will have a profit which I will re-invest in Hillary for President bumper sticker because I think those will become popular. No transactions will appear on my credit card statement, I will have essential bought a commodity with Google money, which I can cash out like stocks.
Computer repair is like replacing your car's clutch, it may be better to buy new.
I will buy when nintendo combines this with the power pad. You acctually have to walk to move in an FPS or walk and jump in mario. Talk about a work out, maybe bring back the guns and combine all three for the ultimate FPS game or sensory over load I'm not sure which one.
I did a quick and dirty price comparison with my weekly Kroger add + coupons and found Amazon to be more expensive. That is also to say that Sams Club, Costco, and other bulk places are more expensive because you cannot use a coupon. I must include I'm the type to shop where my $.5 coupons double so coupons are worth a lot. If I could use my $.50 (doubles to a 1.00) off 6 boxes of Mac and cheese on a bulk 24 pack of Mac and Cheese 4 times over ( I save 4 dollars on 24 packs which make it 16.90 on Amazon) I would shop bulk but right now it's less cost efficient.
I feel like this article is out of the late 80's with those to companies in the title. BRING BACK THE FISH CAM! users can control that plastic diver who swims in the tank.
Google will use the computer power to calculate how to get programs out of beta.
I'm not sure this strays from Google's business model. It makes their job easier; they want to organize the world's information. Their products make sense under this, if they can help you create the information they can more easily organize it. They don't have to deal with Microsoft formats or lotus apple format if you use Google format it's easy for Google to organize what you wrote. If they store it it's easier for them to find it and organize it. Also I strongly believe Google is a social project. They want to see how information is used and spread. Their invite a friend system seems usable for tracking how and where invitations spread. How did the first 500 users get gmail? Who did they pass it to? This is a way to refine and redefine the internet landscape. If they can predict who the power groups are they can use them to pass on viral information. Google can create something then watch it spread across the internet in a predicted pattern. That information would be valuable to anyone. They need to create the ability to create information to organize. Then they want to predict information and connections.
MS cannot install an outbound firewall, well they could but it would lead to a lawsuit. If they put an outbound firewall on the systems they would automatically set certain programs to be allowed through (IE, MS Instant Messenger, MS office, Outlook, etc.), they would block Real player, AIM, Google's Messenger, Firefox, etc. They would install the software, per the anti-trust agreement, but block it so it's as good as not installed. They know they are on the anti-trust edge and probably don't want to push themselves over. Maybe they are smart?
My University discouraged email forwarding by telling professors only to reply to messages from the student's .edu accounts. They Uni wanted to keep track of our system usage; we changed email apps 3 times in 4 years. They would be the type of Uni to use and love this system, force an IE Start page on the students. Of course at the start of each year we got a CD with corporate virus software, spy ware apps and Firefox so it might not work well.
It would be great if I had the option of nicknaming address. I want to type the where as work and it recognize that I work at 1 main street, NSAville, Ohio. That way I only have to type in work to get my map or Tom's to get to Tom's bar that way I won't have to remember the address for Tom's I could already have programed it into my settings. I also want it to give me map directions starting from the location of my previous appointment. That is if the appointments are concurrent.
I want to see a comparison between this and that Lego robot so I know which to buy.
Microsoft's slogan for Vista "Microsoft Vista... Patches in a week" On hearing that many people will upgrade based on security reasons. What I'm saying is that Microsoft is playing politics with patches so you are more likely to upgrade.