I find myself wishing I found out about DocVerse eight days ago. Then maybe I could have signed up for an account before Google snapped them up and closed the registration off for a little behind-the-scenes roadwork. Thanks anyway to TWiG 32 which alerted me.
Anyone at Google who wants to hook me up with an invite would be welcome to do so… you know who I am (you are, afterall, Google)
Until then, I’ve been reading Arrington and Cheng’s respective takes on the aquisition, wishing Parr’s post hit my consciousness back in November, checking out the DocVerse demo video (below) and seeing if OffiSync does what I want until then.
Any other alternatives for real-time doc collaboration?
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Google’s contact management interface in Gmail has been pain. ful. ly. s.l.o.w. in the past , but it worked, and it was smart enough to know who you communicate with the most and update your chat list accordingly. In fact, as long as you didn’t ever access contacts directly, all was well in Google-Happy-Cloud-Computing-Land.
Now, thanks to other apps that need contacts like Voice* and Wave, access to these across the GoogleVerse** has spawned the need to just pull the contact manager out into its own app, namely, Google Contacts. And, like Mashable points out, Google Contacts is adding a much-needed “de-dupify” feature that tries to merge your contacts down to size when import/export, syncing and auto-contact management madness ends up bloating your contact file.
If only New Year’s Resolutions were so easy.
In trying the feature, I admit merging my 1600+ contact list didn’t work after repeated tries and script timeouts in firefox. I am sure it will improve.
* I don’t know why, but accessing contacts in the Google Voice interface always seems to work quicker than from gMail.
**Um, this is an off-the-cuff contraction of “Google” and “Universe”, not Google’s latest poetry or scripture-reading app.
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Web savvy Internet users know to Not Share Your Email Address unless you want to be spammed to death. I completely agree. But gMail from Google can help you share your address with a reasonable certainty that, if the spamming begins, you can easilly shut it off.
- First (and most powerful) is the feature, commonly called “plus addressing“, and which is appropriate per the Email RFC #822 (see pages 8&9), allows you to add additional information to your gMail address between your username and the “@gmail.com” portion of the address to give you a little more information about where you divulged this address, and to whom.
- Next, gMail addresses are “dot blind“, meaning you can add as many dots (periods) in the username portion of your email address as you want (as long as the username does not start or end with a period)
For example:
If your email address is mykittenrocks@gmail.com, any of the following combinations will send email to your account, and you can tell gMail to filter them if you want, or label them a certain way, etc:
- mykittenrocks+thecasbah@gmail.com (link to the song by the Clash, on YouTube)
- my.kitten.rocks@gmail.com
- m.y.k.i.t.t…e.n.ROCKS@gmail.com
- my.kitten.rocks+dont.spam.me@gmail.com
- mykittenrocks+subscriptions+sitename@gmail.com
Anders Jacobsen recommends subscribing to a website with the name of the website and the month, date and year you subscribed:
I usually register at websites with an email address of the form username+sitename+yyyy-mm-dd@domain.com and if I ever receive unsolicited email to this address (see my previous rants on dialpad.com) it’s easy not only to track where the spammer got my address from, but also to block this address for future emails.
The final way gMail helps you share your email address without undue future pain is to give you great Spam Filtering and Unsubscription tools:
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