Tag: googledocs

Passive Aggressive GDocs

Recently I’ve been wondering how I can be more passive aggressive when collaborating in Google Docs. So I asked a team of experts (my former co-workers) and they came up with these 14 brutal moves.
1. Leave the document open all the time
Even when you’re not reading it, leave the document open so your collaborators will think you’re watching every single thing they’re doing.
2. Highlight a piece of text then do nothing
Your collaborator will see the highlight and wonder what the hell you’re thinking, even after hours and hours have passed.

Google Docs API

Instead of delivering just 1 or 2 new types of reports, or a new visual map mashup, we decided to deliver a platform on which anyone, not just Google, could build the next best thing. We even invited a few developers to try this with us, and they join us in this launch by featuring just a few of their creations, like Panorama’s pivot table, or Viewpath’s Gantt Chart, or InfoSoft’s Funnel Charts — all great tools for the student and enterprise user alike. We also built a few early gadgets ourselves which you might find useful.

opendoc / DDE 2.0

Sneaking behind IT back

By easing the grassroots adoption of Apps, Google hopes to begin reshaping the way employees – and then employers – think about personal productivity apps. The idea isn’t to displace, say, Microsoft Office, but to complement it, providing a simple way to collaborate on documents and other files. As the use of Apps becomes more established, it becomes natural for companies to formally adopt the programs to gain further capabilities and controls. In the process, they’ll probably also sign up for the premium edition, which requires a $50 per user subscription. And then, in the long run, people start realizing that they’re doing pretty much everything they need to do within the web apps, and they start asking themselves: why exactly are we still licensing the old-fashioned versions of these programs and suffering the expense and nuisance of installing and running them on all our PCs?

lets kill some sharepoint revenue!