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Tag Archives: Office 2.0
links for 2007-09-12
Tech Watch | InfoWorld Staff | InfoWorld | Indecision in Redmond as Web apps charge | By Eric Knorr “Today’s Capgemini announcement that it will support Google Apps, following on the heels of last week’s Office 2.0 Conference, is another … Continue reading
links for 2007-09-10
Adobe gives peek at online Photoshop | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone “With a new product called Photoshop Express, Adobe Systems is coming through on its promise to deliver a lightweight online version of Photoshop.” (tags: adobe photoshop … Continue reading
links for 2007-06-13
The Times They Are A Changin’ Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPL 3 | CNET News.com Torvalds: “I don’t think the GPL 3 is as good a license as (GPL) 2, but on the other hand, I’m pragmatic, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Bob Dylan, GPL, Linux, Office 2.0, Solaris
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links for 2007-04-20
Or You Could Use Linux Microsoft aims to reach next billion PC users | CNET News.com “The software maker will offer the $3 Student Innovation Suite to governments that agree to directly purchase PCs for students to use in their … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Linux, Microsoft, Office 2.0, Second Life, Ubuntu
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links for 2007-04-19
Not Weird, It’s the Rolling Stones Horses may be doped for Stones gig – CNN.com “Preparations to sedate as many as 300 horses stabled at Belgrade’s racecourse to keep them calm during a Rolling Stones concert have enraged Serb animal … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-05
Are You Capable? Microsoft sued over Vista branding | CNET News.com “A lawsuit, filed in Seattle, alleges that the company advertised systems as “Vista capable,” when in fact the systems were not able to run Vista properly.” (tags: microsoft vista) … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Web 2.0
Tagged Google, Microsoft, Office 2.0, OpenOffice.org
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links for 2007-03-27
Demise of Print InfoWorld: InfoWorld Brand Moves Online “The news hit the internet this morning: as of next month, InfoWorld will no longer be distributed in a print edition.” About time, I hope the others follow. (tags: news) Office 2.0 … Continue reading
links for 2007-03-22
40,000 ASU Students Leap to Google Apps; University Pays Zero – Technology News by InformationWeek “Within the next two months he expects to offer personalized home pages as well as online word-processing documents and spreadsheets based on Google Apps.” (tags: … Continue reading
links for 2007-03-09
ODF California Eyes Move Towards ODF, Away from OOXML (tags: odf) Erwin’s StarOffice Tango: German City of Freiburg moving to OpenOffice.org and ODF (tags: odf germany openoffice) Office 2.0 Adobe to take Photoshop online | CNET News.com “Hoping to get … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
Tagged California, Google, Microsoft, ODF, Office 2.0, Second Life
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links for 2007-03-02
Web 2.0 IBM Links Google Gadgets to WebSphere Portal “Google gained a major new ally in its campaign to extend its applications and information services deeper into the enterprise with IBM’s Feb. 28 announcement that it has integrated Google Gadgets … Continue reading
Posted in News, Standards, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
Tagged Google, ISO, Microsoft, Office 2.0, OOXML, Second Life
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Robin Bloor on Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office
Robin has a very interesting analysis of what may happen in the office suite market now that Google seems to starting putting it’s full weight behind its online applications. See “Google set to challenge Microsoft’s office monopoly.” One thing that … Continue reading
Scoble post-Microsoft
CIO Insight has an interesting interview with Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s foremost blogging ex-employee. It’s a three pager and some of the really interesting bits are toward the end: If I were still at Microsoft, I would be freaking out. The … Continue reading
Office 2.0: online and offline
Martin LaMonica is reporting over at CNet of a new service from ThinkFree that will allow both online and offline editing of documents, with synchronization as you get connected. Also See: “Being sometimes connected” blog entry ITWire: “Microsoft’s worst nightmare … Continue reading
Being sometimes connected
Dan Farber at ZDNet has a piece about SocialText’s Ross Mayfield and their new offline/online wiki editing environment. A frequent criticism of Office 2.0 is that it doesn’t work so well when you aren’t connected to the Internet. Well, the … Continue reading
Student paper management via online writing and grading
My daughter Katie uses OpenOffice for her high school papers and saves her papers in ODF. She is one cool kid, if you ask me. I did not force this choice upon her. In August when I spoke at the … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Education, Open Source, Software
Tagged AJAX, ODF, Office 2.0, OpenOffice.org
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links for 2006-11-09
Intel group to sell Web 2.0 collaboration software | Tech&Sci | Internet | Reuters.com “Intel Corp. has formed a partnership with top Internet software makers to create a set of Web tools for office workers to share information with colleagues, … Continue reading
NY Times article
A colleague just pointed me to the New York Times article by Steve Lohr that came out on Saturday called “Is Windows Near End of Its Run?”. (Registration or subscription might be required.) I’ll let you read it and draw … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-15
Office 2.0 Conference IT|Redux � What I learned at the Office 2.0 Conference “With over 450 participants (375 iPods only, sorry�), 105 speakers, and 56 sponsors, the inaugural Office 2.0 Conference was a success.” (tags: Office2.0) Business Two Zero – … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-13
Office 2.0 Office 2.0 meets the enterprise | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com “The morning discussions at the Office 2.0 conference centered on bringing 2.0 (Web, Office, Enterprise, Lunch, Dinner, and my favorite, Work, etc.) into the mainstream of business … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Web 2.0
Tagged Google, Microsoft, Office 2.0, SOA, web services
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links for 2006-10-12
Open Source Portland points desktop Linux at $10 billion market “Nearly a year in the making, the OSDL and freedesktop.org today announced general availability of Portland 1.0, the first set of common interfaces for GNOME and KDE desktops.” (tags: linux … Continue reading
Office 2.0 Conference: “Making Office 2.0 Enterprise Ready” panel
Moderator: Dion Hinchcliffe Panelists: Ivan Koon, Matthew Quinn, Craig Remy, John Roberts, Ken Rudin Best quote was “Is the enterprise ready for Office 2.0?” I’m hearing a lot of defensiveness about big IT from some of the participants (particularly the … Continue reading
Office 2.0 Conference: “One Day in the Life of an Office 2.0 Worker” panel
Moderator: Matt Marshall Participants: Eric Hoffert, TJ Kang, Tom Snyder, Sridhar Vembu, Kevin Warnock, David Young This panel consists of various startups trying to do realtime online demos of their offerings. We’re in the second one and so far they … Continue reading
Office 2.0 Conference: “Office 2.0, Where Are We?” panel
Moderator: Om Malik Participants: Ismael Ghalimi, Shel Israel, Karen Leavitt, Rajen Sheth, Mark Suster. We’re starting to repeat ourselves here on many issues. I hope Andrew and Esther will not have made all the important points for today, though there … Continue reading
Office 2.0 Conference: Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School is now doing the second keynote. His ideas are coming too fast for me to note them all, but that is not really my intent here. By the way, I’m not going to comment … Continue reading
Office 2.0 Conference: Esther Dyson
I’m sitting in the St. Regis hotel on 3rd Street in San Francisco, listening to Dan Farber interviewing Esther Dyson about the Office 2.0 concept and whether it is implementable. She’s made a couple of important points: she personally does … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-05
AJAX IBM Expands Open Source Contributions to Further Enable Web 2.0 Adoption @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE “Mr. Boloker also announced that IBM would make new technology contributions to the open source community to speed the adoption and growth of Web 2.0 … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Software, Standards
Tagged AJAX, Humor, Linux, MathML, ODF, Office 2.0, W3C, Wiki
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Office 2.0 conference agenda is now available
The agenda for the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco on October 11 and 12 is now available. I’m participating in two panels: “Industry Standards for Office 2.0″ on Wednesday at 2PM and “Making the Transition to Office 2.0″ on … Continue reading
links for 2006-09-07
Open Source Open source ‘gaining enormous momentum’ ‘The open-source software “phenomenon” extends far beyond Linux, and is “gaining enormous momentum,” IDC reports.’ (tags: opensource) Ohio LinuxFest 2006 looms “The Ohio LinuxFest 2006, set for Sept. 30 at the Greater Columbus … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source
Tagged AJAX, Carpentry, Linux, Microsoft, Office 2.0, Python
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Office 2.0 conference in SF in October
This will show up in my del.icio.us links, but there will be what looks to be an interesting Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco on October 12 and 13. I’ve volunteered to speak about the role I think ODF will … Continue reading
Online office apps, continued
Over in his ZDNet blog, David Berlind continues the distributed discussion around online office productivity apps, this time keeping the discussion to presentation software. He picks up the discussion by CNet’s Rafe Needleman that I linked to last Friday. David … Continue reading
