New Media + IT

Duncan Riley at TechCrunch writes that "Google Wants You To Share Stuff".
The method: Google's new service for sharing your favorite content: Shared Stuff.
I haven't really had the time to test it yet (I dragged the Shared Stuff icon to my browser bar — but the pop up window doesn't always load correctly) so give it [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications, Search ]

Google's online application for producing presentations, formerly knows as "Presently", is now ready. Read more at the official Google blog.

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications ]

CNET News reports that Yahoo buys e-mail software firm Zimbra:

Zimbra offers branded e-mail with calendar and mobile features as well as the ability to work offline. The company has more than 200 educational, business and ISP partners, including Comcast, that offer branded e-mail service to roughly 9 million subscribers.
What differentiates Zimbra are the "Zimlet," Web [...]

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Online applications ]

I use the online feed reader Bloglines to manage and view my various feeds.
Today, when I looked at referrers to this blog and came across beta.bloglines.com.
As you may have guessed it's a beta version of the upcoming Bloglines — and so far I think it looks good.
The first thing you notice, is that you can [...]

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[ categorized as: Blogs, Feeds, Online applications, Social web ]

Mary Jo Foley has a post, that Microsoft Works 9.0 will be free of charge and powered economically by ads.
She also writes that there might be a hosted version of the Works office productivity suite popping up in the near future. Read Foley's post for more info.

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[ categorized as: Microsoft, Office, Online applications ]

This is probably old news already, but as the BBC reports, social networking site Facebook has bought Parakey a startup by two of the founders of the Firefox project, Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt.
Even though the Parakey.com site doesn't offer much enlightenment on exactly what kind of project this is, Wikipedia has an interesting article [...]

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[ categorized as: Online applications, Social web ]

According to Google blogoscoped Google is testing the new "view as slideshow" feature in Gmail, that allows you to view the slideshow online and flip through the slides one by one.
To check it quickly found an e-mail with a slideshow attatched (just search for "filename:ppt" in Gmail) and I have the feature as well.
Now we [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications ]

I've blogged about it before and now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has announced it: Google is working on a presentation tool which will be ready later this year.
Read more at The Age who has the story.
Update 1:
There's also a post on it at the official Google blog.

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Google has now turned Google Talk into an online application that you can launch in your browser – even though you can still download the software version.
And you can even add the new online Google Talk to your webpage as a Gadget.

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[ categorized as: Google, Instant messaging, Online applications ]

You've probably already read about it, but Adobe is planning an online, free and ad financed version of Photoshop.
The main reason: To do it before Google. Now that's a bit scary, considering the fact that Google is just an 8-9 year old corporation. Wicked.

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[ categorized as: Google, Online applications ]