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Wow, how different was 2003? Still, you can see the start of something wonderful. This is me and some n00b named Aimee Weber with butterfly wings. Five years ago, I read an article on Slashdot about how a company called Linden Lab was allowing content creators to retain intellectual property rights to their creations. This was [...] Pretty mundane, eh? I think everyone is having the same reaction to this news: even though no one is completely shocked, still, wow, they’re pulling the plug already? In case you haven’t heard, Google will be shutting down their first foray into avatar based virtual worlds, Lively, mere months after opening it. Building retention appeal into virtual [...] Kevin Werbach, founder of Supernova Friend of Peregrine Salon Kevin Werbach, a fellow Whartonite (as of December 1st!), has been appointed to Obama’s FCC transition team. This is great news for those of us who believe in net neutrality! Kevin is the driving force behind the yearly Supernova conference, and this year, the theme was Privacy [...]
About a year ago, I started to research Google Apps, an offering from Google which offers corporations free email, calendar, and document management solutions. While the document management isn’t nearly as feature complete as an Office Suite (Microsoft or Open), the email offering was impressive. Our organization had spent thousands upon thousand of dollars on servers, not to mention the even higher cost of legally licensing Windows, Exchange, and Blackberry Enterprise Server. Since our versions were getting a bit long in the tooth, and the cost of upgrading the servers and licenses approaching $25,000, I suggested we move to Google Apps. Everyone in my organization is married to their Microsoft products, so keeping the familiarity of Outlook was a must. About half of our organization has Blackberries, so keeping the same functionality they rely on there was paramount. Here’s the kicker: I wanted to do this all for free. Continue reading Kicking the Habit: Ditching MS Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Server for Google Apps Indigo by Sean Percival aka Sean Voss ISBN 0-7897-3730-2 http://www.amazon.com/Second-World-Travel-Guide-World/dp/0789737302/ Background This book has been a labor of love by Sean Percival (SL avatar: Sean Voss) for some time. We’ve conversed several times in world, and (far too briefly) at the 2007 Second Life Community Convention, and he has mentioned it. It is clear that he is a lover and [...] |
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