Google has just released their newest collaboration application. This time is different. Google put four of their exist applications together and named it “Google Apps Team Edition“. And the target market is “groups at work or school“.
Here is the PR press: Team Up With Google Apps
Here is the insruction video from Google:
Here are the applications have been included:
Google claims that the purpose of Team Edition is to allow users to “share documents and calendars securely without burdening IT for support,” are more likely to be greeted by raised eyebrows from the IT department.
So, what is our IT department busy doing now? Manage network, Exchange or even Sharepoint?
Base on the M$ recent Quarter Results, Microsoft Business Division (MBD) made $4.8 Billion in total, up 37% than last quarter. Those money is coming from selling office suite and selling, consulting SharePoint. Cmswire said only SharePoint itself made $1 Billion for M$. Big deal, really.
Let’s see what SharePoint can do?
What’s missing in Google Apps Team Edition? Maybe not that much.
Google already has GDoc, GCal and GTalk. And if you subscribe Premier Edition, you will have 25GB GMail too.
Google Start Page allows you put all kinds of widgets on it so you can easily access inbox, calendar, docs and all the others in your widgets.
Google Search + Google Desktop Search isn’t enough?
GDoc?
GDoc again?
Still GDoc?
What Google Apps Team Edition has but not in SharePoint?
What’s next?
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Computer monitors are getting bigger and bigger, so do the html pages. People start to add more columns into the layout.
To create a three columns layout, in a very traditional way you can do it in a table, like this:
<table> <tr><td>Left</td><td>Main</td><td>Right</td><tr> </table>
There are some obvious downside on this:
So how to fix it? You can use css with “position: absolute;” or “Float”:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="main">
<div id="sideleft">Left column</div>
<div id="sideright">Right column</div>
<div id="content">Content</div>
</div>
</div>
#wrapper {width: 800px;}
#main {margin-top: 10px;}
#sideleft {float: left; width: 200px; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #dddddd;}
#sideright {float: right; width: 200px; border: 1px solid green; background-color: #99ff99;}
#content {border: 1px solid blue; background-color: #9999ff; margin: 0 20px 0 10px;}
An ideal career is a sweet dream for most of us, well, maybe all of us.
Changethis.com posted a very interesting manifesto from Jessica Hagy: Indexing a Career: A Career Path in Pictures. You can download the free e-book from Changethis.com and can buy a print version too.
Jessica Hagy has a very unique blog called Indexed. She posts a picture of her draw on a 3” by 5” index card pretty much everyday. Those pictures are all very simple but inspirational.
Some cards from her manifesto:
I remember I collected a interesting one for ideal career too, so I find it out and put it here:
(Click on it to get the full size version)
