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Podcast Episode 12 – m4lit and Steve Vosloo

Matt — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:49:25 +0000

Show Notes:

Interview with Steve Vosloo:

http://m4lit.wordpress.com/ – m4lit project website
http://vosloo.net/ – Steve’s personal blog
http://twitter.com/stevevosloo – Steve on twitter

News:

Zoodles browser

Picks of the week:

Matt: Google Moderator
Chris: Microsoft Mouse Mischief

Paid Google Books Coming This Summer to a Browser Near You

Matt — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:34:58 +0000

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google will be releasing “Google Editions” this summer. This service will compete directly with Amazon Kindle, iBook and B&N’s bookstores. While not entirely surprising, it is great to see a company that knows how to manage and organize content getting into the book business. Hopefully this service will be an “everybody gets to play” type of service where authors will be able to directly market to consumers taking out the middle man of the publishers. What could be even more compelling is if Google editions is combined and tightly integrated with ChromeOS tablets and Android devices. You can get more details in the video below.

Podcast Episode 10 – Docs… coming to a wall near you.

Matt — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:50:30 +0000

Show Notes:

Google Apps for Education: Chris’s pick of the week

Chris — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:00:04 +0000

Google Apps for Education is a free software suite provide by Google. When used in an educational institution, Google gives the software away completely free to an unlimited number of users. The Google Apps ecosystem includes several applications in a suite including an online email client (based on the companies very popular gmail); an online word processor which has the ability to create, edit, and share documents/spreadsheets/presentations; online calendar; a website creation tool (this can be used to create internal websites or public websites); instant messaging; and a customizable portal.

The great thing about Google Apps for Education is the power and features that you get in a free package. A school that signs up for a Google Apps account can re-brand the interface to match their logo or mascot and the email system includes more that 7 gigabytes of data for each user (as well as Google’s industry level spam protection). Once you give your users an account through Google Apps, their email address becomes their username and anyone in the organization can share documents, information, and calendars with other people in the organization, or anyone in the world with any Google or Google Apps account.Google Apps for Education removes the hassle out of email system administration and allows your IT manager(s) to focus on more important things inside the building. In order to set up a Google Apps for Education account, though, you will need help from the person who manages your website.

Google Apps is a great collaboration tool in almost any form that you would like whether it is email, chat, or through websites (and wikis). I rely on the Google Apps ecosystem on a daily basis and set it up as the standard email management system for all of my clients. If you are frustrated with your email, or wish that your school had more collaboration technology, check Google Apps for education out. I highly recomend it!

Please Note: If you are not an educator or member of an educational establishment, you can still get Google Apps for business. As long as you have less than 50 users, the system is still free. Also, I believe that registered non profit organizations can get the system free as well.