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The Google Blog is reporting on some new features for Google Spreadsheets. The new features are nice, including support for the Open Document Format that is used by Star Office and Open Office plus PDF support. I’ve been using Star Office with Google Spreadsheets over the last couple of weeks and have been converting to [...]

I’ve mentioned the dangers of spam on this blog before, highlighting the pain of some other parties in their efforts to block spam on their social media websites. We’ll I should have taken my own medicine.
You see, I’ve got this site that I call the Social Media Wiki. When I set the site up I [...]

There are many ways to use a wiki to publish information and collaborate online. A good case in point is Savory New York.
Savory New York uses MediaWiki to create a web based guide to New York City restaurants. This is a very nice implementation of MediaWiki that includes embedded videos of many of the [...]

Lots of things happening at the 2006 Portable Media and Podcast Expo. The most important things involve not the sessions, but the parties!
Parties are a time for networking and relaxed free discussion lubricated by a cocktail or three. I hear that PodTrac is throwing a shindig by the pool at the Marriott on Thursday night. [...]

Grazr is a very neat tool that allows you to place a navigable widget on a web page for RSS or OPML feeds of your choice.
They’ve updated the look and feel of the Grazr widget to make it a little less obtrusive when you see the widget on your website. Grazr also has a couple of neat features built [...]

Microsoft has recently added some RSS news reader features to their new product that currently has a code name of Max.
According to the official website, “Microsoft® Codename Max is your opportunity to try a new, exciting experience from Microsoft. Today Max lets you make beautiful photo slideshows to share with your family and [...]

This happens so infrequently that I had to post something on this here. Christopher Elliott has written an article on the power of travel blogs for the New York Times.
In the article Christopher references one of my satellite blogs, Red Room Chronicles and is even brave enough to include one of my quotes about Marriott’s acknowledgement [...]

There’s probably no more fitting way to end the week of Open Source tools by highlighting the mack daddy of free blogging tools. I’m talking about WordPress of course.
Stand around a room full of bloggers and start talking about blogging tools. You’ll hear people mention Movable Type, Typepad, Typo and Blogger along with WordPress.
I’ve used (and still [...]

If you’re interested in taking a spin around the new beta version of Blogger without having to sign up then I suggest you head over to the Awakened Voice Learning Center and take the 16 minute Blogger Beta Tour.
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One of the biggest problems that organizations have is efficiency in collaboration. Just recently I talked to a colleague who was frustrated about the process of sharing large files via email. People sending him email would constantly get the dreaded ‘mailbox full’ notification.
Wikis offer an alternative approach to mailing documents back and forth. As many [...]