Posted by Matt Kolowski on Thu, Aug 06, 2009
Thats was she said.
But seriously folks, Google has launched a major offensive into the world of Microsoft Office. The company has started a campaign akin to the Apple 'Switch' ads of yesteryear. Their goal is to let IT professionals know the ease of using Google and their resources for Gmail, Calendars, Google Docs and others instead of Microsoft Office. They want to spread the word that IT peeps like myself don't need to waste time and buying purchasing, installing and managing servers for these items.
The entire Google Apps group includes; 25GB inboxes, instant messaging, voice and video chat, web-based docs and calendar, mobile email, and internet websites. There's even a handy calculator to show you how much you'd be saving your client cold hard cash.
And lets be frank here, if 'Going Google' allows me more time to search YouTube for clips of people falling off of treadmills, I'm all for it.
Google has set up billboards in San Fran, NY, Chicago and Boston on high traffic highways. The signs are changed everyday, but don't worry, they are completely recyclable. Oh, that Google. It would be a disservice NOT to sign up for everything I do on the internet with this company!
Are YOU Going Google? Will *I* be out of a job in a year because of Google? Did YOU watch Hells Kitchen this week?
Posted by Christopher Lyons on Fri, Jul 31, 2009
DISCLAIMER: This Post Does Not in Any Way Mention Apple.
Recently I created a Gmail account to act as a secondary email for myself. For the sake of conversation, let's call it iheartstevejobs@gmail.com. I was going to use it just in case I needed my password reset for various websites and also as a poor mans auto-archive of my main email. Boy what a mistake that could be.
Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo shut off inactive email accounts after 6-9 months of in-activity, meaning that my secondary email could be deactivated if I don't log in often. So one day a greasy haired nerdlinger who dreamed of getting iheartstevejobs@gmail.com would be inundated with glee to find it was finally available. Imagine his surprise when he started getting banking and password information into his inbox. What he would want to do with my Twitter account is beyond me, but rest assured I want to be the only one alerting the world that I just had breakfast!
So the morale of this story is that you shouldn't forget to log into your email early and often and also to eat your vitamins. For the record, C is my favorite.