Into the Enterprise with Google Apps Premier Edition It's always been messy to collaborate on projects created with MS Office products and to share them with co-workers. The better that Google launched Google Apps Premier Edition with new administration APIs aimed at businesses for the next-generation communication and collaboration.

• TrendSpotting: New Technologies First in Consumer Markets

Those applications are already out for a while, however the new thing is a premier edition option including:

• 99.9% uptime guarantee for email
• APIs for your existing infrastructure: Single sign-on and provisioning
  
• 24/7 assistance, including phone support
  

Google Apps are excellent AJAX-based communications tools reducing the amount of friction to interact with each other and to improve communications.

The rapid adoption of broadband has made it possible to move more and more applications to the Web and it's a step further to a Web-based collaboration-suite with drastically reduced maintenance costs with an option to buy further premium services.

Before using Google Apps one should read the GOOGLE APPS PREMIER EDITION AGREEMENT carefully and think of questions about privacy, ethics, security and technology support. It might also be interesting what happens in case of an outage or data losses.

• Into the Air with AJAX

Labels: apis, bizdev, collaboration, google, productivity

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  Into the Air with AJAX
From Wikipedia:

'This aerobatic team is split into "the Diamond" (Blue Angels 1 through 4) and the Opposing Solos (Blue Angels 5 and 6). Most of their displays alternate between maneuvers performed by the Diamond and those performed by the Solos'.

Check out the new Google AJAX Search API Wizards, they are easy to integrate and a fast way to search several google videos, maps, news and books and allow mash ups and a better participation in current communications.

Labels: ajax, mashup, search, strategy, videos

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  Boarding Complete Two Boats - One Team - One Goal

• Pushing the Limits
• Harnessing the Power of Mother Nature
• Strategy: Balancing Speed and Safety (Part I + II)

Labels: sailing, strategy, videos

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  Pushing the Limits New record:

• Harnessing the Power of Mother Nature
• Strategy: Balancing Speed and Safety (Part I + II)

Labels: sailing, strategy, videos

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  Harnessing the Power of Mother Nature Don't fight the Internet, master it!

• Strategy: Balancing Speed and Safety

Labels: sailing, strategy, videos

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  A V for Vendetta... ...Mission Impossible III, 16 Blocks and many more new trailers for the DVD season are available now in Google Video. It's even more fun to find them via AJAX on one's own blog and make the purchase decision.

Driven by key factors like self-expression, collaboration, digitization of content and easy-to-use software that streamlines the process of creating and updating content the passive customer has changed into an active creator. Digital content management and distribution systems have empowered an increasing segment of customers to edit, create and share content.

While traditional media have content embedded making it only consumable at a certain time new media enhance the customer experience unfurling channels, formats and devices, but make it also necessary to experiment and find the winning media formats of the future.

Check it out further down the page.

• Strategy: Balancing Speed and Safety

Labels: entertainment

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  Strategy: Balancing Speed and Safety The quest for victory in the hardest competition around the world, the Volvo Ocean Race: Balancing speed and safety in a competition powered by nature. Watch participants commenting the most challenging moments of an exceptional race.

Labels: sailing, strategy, videos

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  Brand Awareness: Ocean Racing at it's Most Exciting
Under captain Mark Christensen the ABN AMRO ONE has won the VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2005-2006. Reason enough to share some challenging moments of this outstanding race featured in spectacular video clips.

Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race) is a yacht race around the world, held every four years. It's considered to be one of the most challenging races of the world. The general route runs south through the Atlantic Ocean, around the tip of Africa, and then around the Southern Ocean. The route generally covers in excess of 28,000 statute miles (45,000 km) over open ocean. The next race will start in Alicante, Spain, in late 2008. I'm excited!

• Global Brand Awareness: YouTube and Wikipedia among Top 5 Now

Labels: branding, lifestyle, sailing, videos

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  Polishing Screenshots in a Modern 2.0 Style with Gimp I just discovered a great plugin for Gimp on EverDusk and with my French intuition I managed to follow the installation and execution instructions. It takes a minute to render the screenshot, but the result is worth it: Screenshot with style.

Installation and execution in English under Windows:

1. Download the script and save it in Gimp's scripts folder: Programs/GIMP-2.0/share/gimp/2.0/scripts
2. Restart Gimp and acquire a screenshot
   
3. Find the plugin under Xtns/Script-Fu/Screenshot with style
4. Modify the parameters according to your taste and render the screenshot, voila!
   

Labels: gimp, presentation, trend, web2.0

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