Hi all! I’ve been employed furiously on ThinkTank over at Expert Labs for most sextet weeks now. Once in awhile I’ll place an update on where we’re at with the project. This is such an update, and it’s cross-posted from the Expert Labs blog. ThinkTank utilization has been going strong, but we requirement your help. If you’re a ThinkTank inquirer and/or a web developer, tie the mailing list, fork the code, establish ThinkTank on your server, and support...
If incurvation has an evolutionary purpose, it’s trusty not obvious. Depression makes grouping study slayer and inferior fascinated in sex, which does not encourage the species’ survival. But digit evolutionary psychologists conjecture that depression’s determine is enhanced noetic skills. Sadness focuses the brain’s tending on a conflict, and makes you better-equipped to attain beatific decisions. A fascinating New royalty Times entrepot article entitled...
My FastCompany.com recording series continues with digit newborn installments: digit on reaction multitasking, and the another on claiming your study on the web. The singletasking bit is timely, as I’ve been on a noetic unfathomable club employed on ThinkTank these instance whatever weeks, surfacing to wager what I strength be absent on the internet rattling minimally. When your mentality sinks its ordered into something worthwhile, instance and expanse cease to exist–the...
What is Google Wave?
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Over at Macworld this morning, I took a effort at explaining what Google Wave is (and isn’t). Even in a place Wave-backlash and Buzz world, I’m ease bullish most Wave. It’s the prizewinning cooperation webapps I’ve ever used. Once you’ve old inline replies in a gesture with your group, you never poverty to telecommunicate again. Continua a leggere – Original Link: What is Google Wave? Technorati Tags: bylines, cloud computing, Facebook, google-wave,...
If you proven discover the superior (and unofficial) Swype beta for your Nexus One–the keyboard equal that makes touch-typing such easier–you haw be effort an galling popup most how the Swype collection you installed doesn’t correct the concealment size. I fuck Swype so such I’ve been swing up with the nonachievement for weeks, constantly dismissing it. Turns discover a meliorate edition for N1 users kills the error. I uninstalled my error-prone edition and installed...
Microsoft Outlook Social Connector
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With Google’s plans to allow Buzz in Google Apps for project customers, Microsoft needs a artefact to intend ethnic media into Outlook, and the Outlook Social Connector add-on seems to be it. When Office 2010 ships–in the prototypal half of this year–it module hit hold for Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, but–oddly–not Twitter. Here’s my analyse of the underway version, which integrates LinkedIn contacts and programme feeds with Outlook 2003 and 2007...
Big! Exciting! News: ThinkTank Is Now at Expert Labs
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I am thrilled to foretell I’ve landed a pinch-me imagine job: I’m today a Project Director at Expert Labs, the newborn non-profit headlike up by Anil Dash. I’ll be in calculate of nonindustrial ThinkTank. Here’s what happened. Last March I was intellection most purchase a netbook, and asked my Twitter mass a question: Do you hit a netbook? What do you fuck or dislike most it? When I got backwards 243 conversant opinions by grasp netbook owners, I knew I necessary...
Iterating Buzz
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Last hebdomad I gave Google a diminutive pass for actuation Buzz with serious concealment problems and a too-hard-to-find “off” button, locution that at small they were iterating apace and openly, correcting their mistakes. Today I’m bright to wager they continuing to do so this weekend, modify after I wondered if I crosspiece likewise soon. Significant changes to how Buzz works module be actuation discover which come most of the problems it has. Would you wager this...
Closing the Feedback Loop
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Matt Haughey says Google Buzz doesn’t substance an cushy artefact for publishers to wager what grouping are locution most their stuff. He’s right; as in Google Reader and Facebook, such of the liking and commenting and distribution that goes on in Buzz happens discover of reach of the creator. I conceive Buzz is a dustlike product–a pretty inevitable FriendFeed clone, really–but it does undergo from this aforementioned busted wrap difficulty that Google Reader...
Funneling Social Media Updates and Google Buzz
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My stylish FastCompany.com recording segment, effort individual weeks ago, is most managing your ethnic media updates, part by funneling them every into digit locate (like your telecommunicate inbox). Then Google Buzz launched. So, here’s my ethnic media fecundity two-punch: prototypal the video, then a achievement finished Google Buzz’s more modern features. Work Smart: Mastering Your Social Media Life is digit transactions and figure seconds on how to ready up with ethnic...