Posts tagged Google

Social networks, identity management, and the evolution of the web

The past few years have fostered a huge amount of growth in social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, (the list goes on), as well as their continued battle to own you and your data. In parallel, there are evolutionary steps toward identity management appearing, like OpenID, and CardSpace.
Guess what?
I’m a single person. An identity, not [...]

Getting Things Done: Integration of online calendars (GCal with Thunderbird-Lightning, Outlook and Facebook)

The plethora of calendars I have to manage was getting to be quite the mess. Trying to schedule events was a danting task requiring lookup in multiple places.
I use Thunderbird (with the Lightning extension) when I’m at home most of the time. When I’m at work we’re required to use the standard Microsoft Outlook. Finally [...]