2 posts tagged “google”

If you have a Google Apps account, you may have noticed the sudden appearance of "Google Sites" within your applications homepage. It looks very much like Google's first stab at a SharePoint style collaboration workspace - and it isn't too bad at all.

Those with a long memory will remember the Google acquisition of "JotSpot" a few years ago, and the rumours that they were about to release their own Wiki tools - I have a feeling some of the elements of "Google Sites" are the end result - only Google have done a lot more than many might have thought.

Here's the official tour...

Google Sites provides many of the same features as a generic Windows SharePoint Services site - except of course you have no hosting fees, no server(s) to administer and no administration learning curve. Of course you can't modify what you get "out of the box", but I sometimes wonder just how many companies use SharePoint beyond the basic document libraries and discussion workspaces anyway.

I can't help wondering - if Google add workflow to this in the next version, it's going to be a realistic alternative to SharePoint...

I have had my Sony Ericsson K800i for a year or so now - so you might think I would have configured it properly by now. You might be wrong.

This morning I finally bit the bullet and searched the internet to find out why I was unable to send emails - thankfully somebody else had listed the instructions to send and receive email via Google Mail - apparently I was missing a security certificate on the phone. By luck, the same guy had provided a link to the certificate - with instructions to copy it to your phone.

Thankfully we have a Macbook with bluetooth, so getting the license onto the phone was simple (although guided by blind luck and ignorance). Following that, IMAP suddenly started working on the phone, and I could send emails.

Next stop was looking in the Vox mobile settings, and configuring an email address to post into my account with. All pretty straight forward, except one of the options said something along the lines of "create new post, or just post to streams". I searched for the word "streams" in the Vox help. Nothing. Nada.

It turns out that "streams" means the "Photos" section of your account. So if you use a camera phone to take a picture and want to stick it in your Vox photos for later use, just select streams - otherwise it will become a blog post.

Be prepared for all kinds of crap to arrive in Vox via my phone. Consider yourself warned.