Be aware: You will not be able to delete from Google Docs any image embedded in your Presentations
September 21st, 2007 Ralf ScharnetzkiGoogle launched this week the capability to store in addition to Docs and Spreadsheets also Presentations on Google Docs. This new capability is easy to use and very valuable. But a simple test has shown that there is right now (September 2007) an issue with Presentations on Google Docs that you maybe should know of:
Posted in Identified Issues | 1 Comment »You will currently not be able to delete from Google Docs any image that is embedded in your Presentations.
Google´s Universal Search to search GMail, Google Documents and Social Networks!
August 21st, 2007 Ralf ScharnetzkiOpen Letter to Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google
August 2007
Dear Mrs. Mayer,
Your announcement of “Universal Search” in May 2007 got everyone including us excited. We would like to build on your concept of Universal Search and suggest to you the following road map to deliver to the world what we call the “Ultimate Universal Search”:
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The importance of Facebook explained for those who do not get it: Staying in contact with your Contacts
August 9th, 2007 Ralf Scharnetzki
Sometimes it is taking a while to get an understanding of the importance of something that is as much in the hype as Facebook is currently in 2007. With its recent positioning as an application platform Facebook has in our view become a unique challenger to established players in the field of Personal Information Infrastructure like Microsoft and Google. We are going to explain this in a way that hopefully also those can get at least the concept behind it who had so far (maybe even after they done a quick inspection of Facebook and some other “social networks” themselves) a difficult time in understanding the significance of Facebooks contribution to application platforms in general.
Update on Zombie Google Documents: Experience still yourself why private or confidential information should not be put on hosted services on the Internet
Juli 30th, 2007 Ralf ScharnetzkiFrom a theoretical standpoint it is clear that private or confidential information should not be put on a hosted service on the Internet (if it is not encrypted) because you can never be sure about who can access it and you can never be sure that it ever will be deleted if you would request so.
By just clicking on the link below you can get practical experience that will complement this theoretical understanding:
Posted in Identified Issues | No Comments »Privacy issue: Google Docs seems to not delete but only hide documents when the trash is emptied
Juli 15th, 2007 Ralf ScharnetzkiWe are going to demonstrate in this article that documents on Google Docs (in July 2007) are not deleted, even after the user asked to empty the trash.
We are also going to show that there is an privacy issue with documents on Google Docs: parts of private documents on Google Docs can be accessed without having to enter any user-id and password. Read the rest of this entry »
Not on Youtube: Great lecture videos from ResearchChannel
Juni 21st, 2007 Jens
If you have any interest in learning about today’s IT industry from industry leaders themselves, scientists and great thinkers I strongly recommend to have a look at the website ResearchChannel.
Please find below my current favorites, but there are hundreds of videos more to be explored (Browse the Video Library of ResearchChannel).
Posted in Interesting Links | No Comments »Tagging in Microsoft`s OneNote enables seamless maintenance of ToDo lists
Mai 9th, 2007 Ralf ScharnetzkiWith the increasing number of mails “Personal Task Management” is becoming itself an important task for everyone. Additional complexity is created by the fact that only very rarely there is the luxury of working only on one task until it is finished. Reality is that parallel streams of “work in progress” require to switch continuously on demand between the related actionable items. In this article I will demonstrate how Microsoft’s OneNote 2007 can be leveraged for task management. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Recommended Products | 12 Comments »The current context of the user: great opportunity for incremental business
Mai 1st, 2007 Ralf ScharnetzkiIn the soon to be forgotten “Pre-Internet Phase” of desktop computing developers leveraged the context of the user inside their applications:
- right click menus offer functionality depending on the context of the application,
- context sensitive help is trying to provide background information to what the application sees as the current context of the user
But now there is the Internet and the opportunity that is offered by a good understanding of the current context of the user is bigger then providing only context driven functionality and help. It is very well understood by the major websites and services that the current context of the user can also be leveraged to reach for what matters most to successful companies: to make more money.
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AppleTV as a simple to use receiver for online shared photos?
April 24th, 2007 Ralf ScharnetzkiAppleTV killer application: Access online shared photos without a computer?
My parents in law are using a TV, they are not using a computer. Sending prints of photos is working fine, but sometimes I just do not find the time for it. If there would be an effortless way to share our family photo collection with them online in a secure way I would go for it. Let us assume we would have found a cheap way to connect them to the internet. How could we leverage their TV user experience to access our online family photo collection?
Posted in Proposed Solutions | No Comments »Management of Data about Data is an issue for all of us
April 19th, 2007 Ralf ScharnetzkiData about Data sounds like a topic that is interesting only for experts. Most of us probably assume that only those experts can understand what it is all about. And indeed the management of Data about Data is for example in the specialized world of Business Data warehouses (referred to there as Meta-Data Management - MDM) one of the most expensive issues to solve. Read the rest of this entry »
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