July 14, 2008
The release of new 3G iPhone and the launch of the Application Store secured the spotlight last week but there was another release which caught my attention. Apple launched MobileMe to replace the .Mac service which has been around for awhile. Though the .Mac migration may have had a few hiccups, the new MobileMe service offers users who pay just $99 per year an Apple run exchange for keeping contacts, calendar events and email synced to a PC or Mac computer and iPhone or Touch. The release positions Apple into a new space as a supplier of personal enterprise computing solutions. Apple takes on "free" email providers by locking up new me.com users to an account on a yearly subscription. Will this change the "free" email standard?
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February 29, 2008
I hate long meetings when I feel that something could be solved with a simpler method like AIM, email, a text message or a phone conversation. When a meeting is needed, coordinating meetings can be as time consuming as the actual meeting itself. If you have a personal assistant you probably do not have to worry about this but if you do not then you probably feel my pain. ikordo, created by UK-based Volutio, offers a product that help facilitate organizing the meeting for you by putting into an organized system that leverages various communication streams to lock down your meeting times.
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December 13, 2007
With all the controversy swirling around steroids in baseball, in March 2006 Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig appointed former a former Senate majority leader and federal prosecutor, George J. Mitchell to conduct an investigation on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.
With the investigation complete, the results title creatively, The Mitchell Report were released and then entire report which calls out a number of respected and previously thought to be 'clean' baseball players as steroid users. It is now available online for you to read and cherish for yourself.
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October 30, 2007
Docstoc, the Beverly Hill-based document hub startup, has officially launching to the public today. Docstoc is dubbed the "YouTube for professional documents" by some, as it enables users to upload just about any document type (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator or PDF) and display it on any website as a Flash include.
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October 24, 2007
Real estate can be a profitable investment. However, many are turned off by the idea of being a landlord and having to manage a number of properties at one time. Managing property can sometimes be complicated and time consuming. Propertize, a Chicago-based startup, aims to help make it easier by offering an online property management suite.
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October 4, 2007
Email management is something I have written about several times. Most recently, I highlighted Xobni which has helped organize and expose some of the hidden social aspects of email. However, Xobni does not file or read your mail for you. SimplyFile, an Outlook utility by TechHit, helps to organize and file your email in one click.
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September 20, 2007
My email continues to overflow as I receive large amounts in several email accounts. I have written about email management a few times before so needless to say I was very excited to witness the private beta launch of Xobni at TechCrunch40. Xobni is more that just "inbox" spelled backwards as it offers a Microsoft Outlook plugin that helps to attack the email management problem and in doing so exposes the social network behind email. I installed Xobni and was quite impressed with its capabilities.
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September 17, 2007
Have you ever needed a particular type of document like a contract of lease? If so, you might be able to order these templates online or purchase them at an office supply store. Docstoc, an Los Angeles-based startup, might be able to help as it offers a repository of user contributed documents has just launched at TechCrunch40.
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September 6, 2007
Diigo, a Reno-based startup, has developed the WebSlides beta a browser-based player that displays live Web pages with integrated annotation, sticky notes, and highlights as a portable and interactive slideshow.
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June 11, 2007
Vyew, a Berkeley, California browser-based collaboration and conferencing platform start-up, offers a feature-rich virtual workspace for collaboration. Originally launched as SimMeeting, in September 2004, Vyew was renamed in October 2005 to and has continued to improve its web conferencing tools and first-of-its-kind asynchronous collaboration capabilities. Vyew recently launched out of...
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April 22, 2007
Photo of the Week: I snapped this photo of the West Wing while celebrating Earth Day 2007 on the White House grounds. eBay Acquires StumbleUpon StumbleUpon was acquired by eBay for between $40 to $75 million but it seems Google Google tried to rain on their parade with a toolbar...
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April 10, 2007
What are some good invoicing applications to use? A friend of mine recently asked me this very question and I surprisingly drew a blank. So I made it my mission to seek out an anwser. FreshBooks, a Toronto-based startup, offers an online invoicing and time tracking application that nicely fits...
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April 6, 2007
ThinkFree, an online office production suite I recently reviewed, has released three new features which include an API to the ThinkFree Viewer, a WordPress Plugin and instant upload to ThinkFree DocExchange. We will take a look at these new options a little more closely below. ThinkFree Viewer API - Now...
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March 29, 2007
The days of desktop office productivity software are numbered as solid web-based products have began to emerge. ThinkFree, a San Jose-based company, offers a fairly robust web-based Microsoft Office compatible application suite. ThinkFree Office Online is easy to use as it leverages users’ familiarity with Microsoft Office to offer a...
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March 25, 2007
Photo of the Week: The trees are blooming faster than web 2.0 startups these days. I snapped this photo, titled Flowering with my camera phone, while at the AOL Mountain View, California office this past week. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 03.25.07 Under the Radar Office 2.0 Winners I had a...
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February 25, 2007
Photo of the week: With the 79th Academy Awards tonight I felt this photo title Over Hollywood Sign by Jorge Mir offered a good point of perspective. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 02.25.07 Hollywood Disrupted By Social Media? An opinion piece in the LA Times, titled “The Movie Magic is Gone”,...
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