Google Docs

Nominations For Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards 2009 - O'Reilly Radar

By Allison Randal

The 5th annual Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards will be hosted at OSCON 2009 in San Jose, CA. The awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for 2005-2008 include Angela Byron, Karl Fogel, Pamela Jones, Gerv Markham, Chris Messina, David Recordon, Doc Searls, and Andrew Tridgell. The...

[Publish Date: April 22, 2009]

Google Docs Goes Offline - InsideRIA

By Andre Charland

We were all wondering when Google was going to use Gears to take Google Docs offline. Well today is the day. I'm always a little bit surprised how long it takes some companies to implement their own technologies I'm always happy when they do. For I'm generally an early adopter so I win, but more importantly those underlying technologies improve for developers and everyone else.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2008]

Philipp Lenssen

Philipp Lenssen is a web developer, blogger and author from Germany. Since 2003, Philipp has run Google Blogoscoped (blogoscoped.com), a daily news source started in Malaysia to cover all things Google, from Gmail, Orkut and web search to Google Docs...

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Google Docs Soon to Sport Offline Editing - Tools of Change for Publishing

By Andrew Savikas

While a few brave souls are already using Google Docs for long-form writing (eg, books), one of the most glaring shortcomings for the platform -- that you have to...

[Publish Date: March 31, 2008]

Etech liveblogging: Mobile Phones Reveal the Behaviors of Places and People ...

By Quinn Norton

(Tony is from Sense Networks, and also a prof at Columbia University in comp sci) Starting out with what we have now: Online data isn't disconnected documents, but a network, with links between docs and the key information is the links. Folks like Google have obviously exploited that network technology. Online social networks, networks of people, the relationships being the...

[Publish Date: March 11, 2009]

Writing a Book with Google Docs - Tools of Change for Publishing

By Andrew Savikas

As you might imagine, a lot of the O'Reilly authors are a bit more technically savvy than most, which means they're often willing to help us experiment with new authoring,...

[Publish Date: March 20, 2008]

Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary - O'Reilly Windows ...

By Todd Ogasawara

My Google Docs Offline Feature Got Turned On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:01:20 I noticed that my Google Docs offline feature was turned on today. Google Gears took what seemed like less than a minute to synchronize files. There's an...

[Publish Date: April 24, 2008]

Mac FFOSS (Freeware/Free and Open Source Software) - O'Reilly Digital Media

By Todd Ogasawara

Here's what I looked at last week: The Microsoft Mac Remote Desktop Client beta hasn't really expired, received my Arduino Diecimila microcontroller, Google Apps Email Uploader: Import Messages and Contacts from Outlook and Thunderbird, and Google Docs Offline with Google Gears?

[Publish Date: April 09, 2008]

Speaker: Ojan Vafai: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb & ...

Ojan is an engineer on Google Chrome with a focus on web development and compatibility. He co-founded Google Page Creator and has worked on a number of Google web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs.

[Publish Date: September 16, 2008]

Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary - O'Reilly Windows ...

By Todd Ogasawara

Google Email Uploader: Import Messages and Contacts from Outlook and Thunderbird Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:04:34 Google's really coming out swinging into Microsoft's client-software face in the past couple of weeks. First, they announced the slow migration of Google Docs...

[Publish Date: April 10, 2008]

Haskell Book Author Adapts to Reader Comments While Writing - Tools of ...

By Andrew Savikas

Yesterday's post about writing a book with Google Docs was about improving collaboration among authors (as well as working without the cruft of word-processing features that aren't germane to many...

[Publish Date: March 21, 2008]

Mac FFOSS (Freeware/Free and Open Source Software) - O'Reilly Digital Media

By Todd Ogasawara

Summary: Just NeverBall (game) and Google Docs Offline Spreadsheet and Presentation Viewing summarized week.

[Publish Date: May 07, 2008]