Las herramientas Google Calendar, Google Docs y Google Talk están disponible para los usuarios en su versión final.
 
Herramientas como el correo Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs y Google Talk, ya están “en pleno rendimiento”, afirmó Google Enterprise, agregando que estos productos dirigidos especialmente para las empresas ya dejaron de estar en su base “beta”.

Google Apps para empresas deja de ser 'beta'

“Estamos eliminando las versiones beta de Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs y Google Talk, para erradicar cualquier duda sobre la madurez de la suite de productos de Google Apps“, comenta Rajen Sheth, esponsable del producto en Google Enterprise.

Según el ejecutivo, estas herremientas petenden desembarcar en el mercado de grandes compañías, como Fairchild Semiconductor.

Cabe recordar que la compañía ha lanzando también la herramienta ‘delegación de correo electrónico’, para visualizar y enviar correos electrónicos en nombre de los demás.

A la vez, para ayudar a los clientes a cumplir con las reglamentaciones específicas que puedan existir en su industria están agregando ‘la retención de correo electrónico’, para determinar cuándo pueden ser purgados determinados mensajes.

Tanto la herramienta de retención cómo la de purgación se encuentran en estos momentos en fase de pruebas con algunos clientes, y será lanzado en las róximas semanas a la versión Premier.

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El nuevo sistema estará enfocado para empresas de todos los tamaños. 
Google, líder en buscadores de Internet, acaba de lanzar en Latinoamérica Google Enterprise, iniciativa con la que pretende dedicarse al mundo empresarial en la región y en el mundo entero.

Google Enterprise

La nueva creación es una versión rediseñada del actual Google Apps y estará enfocada a los ejecutivos empresariales y a las Pymes.

Su modus operandi se basa en recopilar toda la información en una sola base de datos en Internet, conocida como “Nube” o “Cloud“.

“Para el mundo ejecutivo esto significaría tu empresa en el bolsillo”, señaló Alex Rodríguez Torres, Director de Marketing para Latinoamérica y Japón de Google.

La primera versión, presentada en los Ángeles hace 2 años, ofrece además de los ya conocidos Gmail, Google Calendar y Google Docs, servicios de video y chat en una sola base de datos.

Se estima que los costos de este nuevo producto oscilarán los 50 dólares al año para una persona, es decir una compañía que cuente con tres mil empleados a nivel de ejecutivos cancelará cerca de 150 mil dólares por doce meses.

La idea, según lo manifiesta Paula Blanco, Directora de Comunicación de Google México, es convertir a Google Enterprise en el primer medio de ingresos de la compañía. 

Quienes implementen este sistema contarán con la asesoría directa de partners capacitados por el propio Google. Para ello ya se han preparado dos tipos de instructores que trabajarán con las grandes y pequeñas empresas respectivamente.

La seguridad también es un punto incorporado a Google Enterprise. Los consumidores contarán con una red de protección respaldada por medios legales, con el objetivo de cuidar y verificar  todo tipo de información de la empresa vía satélite. Es decir todos los usuarios estarán vigilados.

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Setelah mencoba Android Phone beberapa minggu, bagi yang seneng otak-atik gadget… tiada hari tanpa hal baru di Android, ada aja yang bisa diotak-atik dan salah satu contohnya adalah menjelajah Android Market.

Android Market adalah sebuah pasar digital yang berisi ribuan program/software baik yang gratisan maupun berbayar. Mulai dari program ringan untuk lucu-lucuan sampe program serius bisa ditemukan disini.

Seperti gambar diatas, Android Market terdiri dari 3 bagian utama yaitu:

• Apps: Berisi program-program mulai dari yang ringan sampe serius
• Games: Berisi games-games menarik untuk mengusir kebosanan disaat santai
• Downloads: Berisi daftar program yang udah didownload ke sistem android

Apps dan Games terdiri dari beberapa kategori utama untuk memudahkan dalam mencari program sesuai kebutuhan. Setelah diklik kategori yang diinginkan, maka akan muncul daftar program beserta ratingnya.

Semakin banyak bintangnya (rate) maka semakin bagus pula kualitas program tersebut. Tapi ada juga program bagus tapi ratenya gak seberapa banyak, biasanya program tersebut masih baru dan belum populer jadi belum banyak yang mencoba.

Seperti yang terlihat gambar diatas, bagian Download berisi daftar program-program yang pernah kita download ke android phone kita. Asyiknya lagi, setiap kali program tersebut di-update oleh developer-nya maka akan muncul informasi ‘Update available’ untuk versi terbaru.

So… program yang dipakai selalu versi yang terbaru! Dengan semakin seringnya update tersebut maka semakin bagus pula kualitasnya karena selalu ada perbaikan dan penambahan fitur.

Kamu pengen mencari program berdasarkan keyword tertentu ??? klik aja tombol pencari dengan simbol kaca pembesar dan ketikkan keyword-nya.

Contoh diatas, aku mengetikkan keyword ‘GPS’ hasilnya banyak sekali program-program gratisan yang berhubungan dengan GPS, tinggal pilih aja mana yang cocok… kalo gak suka, hapus aja cari yang lain… beres!! hehehe…

I think this battle will be easier when Google works in more Microsoft Functionality.  Click here to read.

More and more startups are working in distributed teams. Teams with people in different countries and time zones. Keeping the team up to date and aligned is key for success. 7 tools to make online collaboration easy, thanks to CrunchBase for the introductions:

AgileBuddy: agree on specs
AgileBuddy is next generation Scrum project management software that lets you easily Create, Estimate, Plan and Track your software projects. Leading edge software companies are all making the move to Agile methodologies like Scrum.

GitHub: share the source
Git is a distributed software management program created by Linus Torvalds. GitHub is a hosted Git repository. Github allows you to take part in collaboration by forking projects, sending and pulling requests, and monitoring development.

Yammer: keep the team posted
Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you working on?”
As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced.
Anyone in a company can start their Yammer network and begin inviting colleagues. The privacy of each network is ensured by limiting access to those with a valid company email address. The basic Yammer service is free. Companies can pay to claim and administer their networks.

Skype: for the direct conversation
Skype is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony service that is free for Skype-to-Skype calls. The service also allows Skype users to call mobiles and landlines, and vice-versa. Skype has special charge plans for non-Skype-to-Skype calls. Skype is expanding from its traditional computer-based calls to mobile applications.

Notable: feedback, easy and simple
Quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser. Notable is a page capture utility with powerful annotation features that let you pinpoint copy, design elements and even code that needs to be tweaked. It’s the most comprehensive feedback tool on the Web.
The tool works on PC, Mac, and iPhone.

Google Apps: e-mail, chat, calendar, but above all: docs
Google Apps, is a web-based office suite offering businesses email, document creation, and collaboration functionality. Google Docs is Google’s free web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application. The online app allows users to easily share documents and collaboratively work on them in real-time.

MindMeister: mind mapping to the max
MindMeister is a collaborative mind mapping tool built on the principles of Web 2.0 to allow people from around the world to work together on their mind maps with nothing else but a browser and an internet connection. MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool – only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!

I often write to express my thoughts and reflect on my profession, hoping to share and collaborate with colleagues and peers. Today, I write in hopes to be heard. Today, I have been inspired to finally write this grand idea that has been brewing for quite awhile. It is in fact “dreaming big…”

I have been in the educational technology field for a few years now and have fully embraced the concept of web 2.0 as the 21st century way of learning. In the past three years, I have built a technology program at our school that embodies collaboration, problem solving skills and innovation. From my engineering class to our teacher professional development program (TEKA), our school has embraced 21st century learning. This year has been particularly successful as we have moved to a Google Apps environment for our collaboration efforts. The real time collaborative environment allows staff members to communicate more effectively and share knowledge to truly create a personal learning network (PLN). Our ever growing internal wiki has expanded ten fold with information and lessons tailored for our environment. I can safely say we are an empowered group of learners who understands self-directed learning in a collaborative environment.

With much success at our school, I have been inspired to see how this PLN can grow to our bigger charter network. Upon reflection, I couldn’t think of a better way to promote the web 2.0 concept than at our annual charter school conference. Having been inspired by collaborative efforts at other conferences, I thought using web 2.0 tools at our annual conference would be a game-changing idea.

Our annual charter conference brings together the brilliant minds and passionate educators from all over the nation. For the past three years, I have come away inspired and motivated to teach after our week of collaboration. However, I have come to the realization that despite the inspiration that comes from the conference, the knowledge and collaboration efforts that extend after the conference has been comparatively minute. I also come to realization that during the conference, the chances of more collaboration and instant reflections may not be fully materialized without using technology to drive the conversation.

Dreaming Big…

I remember going to a conference over a year ago where I was first introduced to Twitter and how it was used at the conference at that point was beyond my scope. However, having used Twitter actively now for the past three months, I finally put together the purpose of using Twitter at that conference and the potential impact it can have on information sharing. The concepts of web 2.0 has been around for many years now and trying to describe it here is not going to turn any heads.

Instead, I want to connect web 2.0 with our annual charter conference. I want to dream someday that our conference will utilize web 2.0 tools such as Twitter to spark conversations with true real time collaboration. I can envision being at one of the sessions and “tweeting” my reflections on the speaker and having another teacher responding to my thoughts in real time. I also see  others learning from each other through the #conversations and archiving people’s topics and links. Moreover, having several active television monitors spread across the conference for people to learn and be in the “know” of what is going on at the conference. Active live “tweets” will take the conference into a whole new level of real time reflections, surveys, and polls. Using other web 2.0 tools such as wikis to archive and Poll Everywhere to get instant feedback will bring and keep new ideas into fruition. The best part of Twitter is that mobile technologies allow the individual to post their thoughts instantly through Internet ready phones or texting capabilities.

I dream of having having a booth (Adelante Cafe) with my students teaching teachers how to use web 2.0 technologies such as Twitter and Edmodo at the conference. It would be a sight to see my students helping the conference participants logging on Twitter and learning how to RT and create #edchats about our #kss10 conference. It would be a beautiful thing to see the power of the crowd produce content rather than just listening to content throughout the conference. In my humble opinion, it will greatly enhance the experience of the week as all teachers and staff members will feel actively involved, as they share out their reflections, ideas, and information in real time.

I write this idea inspired by one of our program’s important mottos of “Dreaming Big…”

Visando competir diretamente com o Microsoft Windows Seven no segmento de netbooks, o Google desenvolveu um sistema operacional em nuvem a partir do navegador Chrome.

A idéia é abolir quase todo o sistema operacional embarcado, oferecendo um tempo de inicialização de aproximadamente sete segundos, deixando apenas as ferramentas para ligar o equipamento e entrar na internet. Todo o resto estará disponível na rede, através dos servidores do Google. A única tela que o usuário terá é a do navegador Chrome. Na internet ele terá aplicativos de escritório baseados no Google Apps, visualizadores de vídeo e som,baseados no Youtube, e-mail e mensageiro instantâneo baseados no gmail e no Google Talk, entre outros aplicativos. Com isso, segundo o Google, não seria necessário mais programas acessórios, como antivirus, firewall, aplicativos de escritório, etc. O custo do sistema operacional seria irrisório e o usuário teria seu ambiente de trabalho e de diversão na web.

Quanto às críticas de manter os documentos das pessoas na web, existirá a opção de manter documentos localmente, com edição na web.

Abaixo, dois vídeos explicando o conceito e demonstrando a utilização. Por enquanto, apenas em inglês:

Como sabrán, Google lanzó su sistema operativo y publicó el código fuente, en su sitio oficial, de su sistema operativo Google Chrome OS para que se pudiera testear. No se publicó ninguna ISO funcional sino que solo se dejó el código fuente para su estudio hasta ahora y gracias a varias personas que se tomaron el trabajo de compliarlo podemos llegar a probar esta versión.

Pues bien, navegando encontré en el blog de Genbeta un post de como poder llegar a probar la versión que se presento el pasado 19 de Noviembre de 2009 en las oficinas de Google. En el post podemos encontrar un torrent que nos permitirá descargar un archivo comprimido de un disco virtual. Este disco virtual se pude utilizar tanto en VirtualBox como en VMware.

Para poder ponerlo en marcha, una vez que hayamos bajado el archivo y lo descomprimimos, debemos crear nuestra máquina virtual. En la pantalla de selección de sistemas operativos debemos seleccionar el sistema operativo “Linux” con su versión “Ubuntu”. Luego le asignaremos la memoria, lo recomendable es darle 1 GB de memoria RAM pero lo hé probado con 512 MB de RAM y funciona aceptablemente. Luego nos preguntará si queremos crear un disco nuevo o usar uno ya existente, vamos a la segunda opción y buscamos nuestro disco virtual de Chrome OS y continuamos. Al finalizar la creación de la máquina virtual vamos a poder ponerla en funcionamiento.

El arranque es bastante rápido como se prometió, pero no podemos ver que es lo que hace ni que es lo que carga. Solamente cuando termina nos aparece la pantalla de login.

Para poder acceder al sistema el usuario y la contraseña son:

• Usuario: mark
• Contraseña: chromeos

Una vez dentro vamos a tener la siguiente pantalla:

Es aqui donde podemos colocar nuestra cuenta de google o gmail para poder acceder a todos los servicios que deseemos. No pude probarlo pero por lo que leí en la pantalla de login del sistema operativo deberiamos poder ingresar nuestra cuenta de gmail, pero no tuve exito alguno. También leí que si se puede acceder con una cuenta “google.com”.

Una vez ingresada nuestra cuenta de gmail vamos a poder ver una pantalla como esta:

Por lo que se puede ver todo está orientado al navegador. No hay ningún software instalado salvo el navegador Chrome y con el podemos acceder a todos los servicios asociados a la cuenta google.com o gmail.com. Da la sensación de que es ultra liviano pero pareciera que es solo una aplicación más de un sistema operativo y no un sistema operativo propiamente dicho.

Tiene un panel de control en el cual podemos modificar distintos aspectos del navegador front-end del sistema como ser, configuración del proxy, donde descargar nuestros archivos, etc.

Por mucho que busqué no encontré ningún navegador para ver el filesystem, lo único que pude hacer es colocar “/” en la caja url del navegador y nos encontraremos con lo siguitente:

Como vimos anteriormente, en la máquina virtual debimos colocar como versión a “ubuntu” y por lo que se ve en los directorios mientras los navegamos que es una distribución basada en Debian ya que cuenta con las aplicaciones más conocidas como apt para manejar los paquetes.

Hasta ahora nos econtramos con esto, no se si será para que se pueda utilizar, por ahora, en algún entorno de producción de una empres a pesar que los primeros lanzamientos de Google Chrome OS serán para Netbooks con lo que no seria nada mal ya que es muy liviano.

Pero creo que Google apunta con su sistema operativo es darle una solución simple a todas aquellas empresas o personas que cuentan con el servicio de Google Apps, ya que con esto no requieren ningún software adicional para manerjar todo lo referente a el.

Don Dodge, Microsoft Google evangelist, sums up Google’s pitch to businesses -

Google has a two pronged approach for enterprises moving to the Cloud. Google Apps has packaged applications like Gmail, calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, Video, and other commonly used applications. Enterprises can get immediate cost savings by moving these routine every day applications to the cloud, and free up IT resources to focus on more strategic issues.

Google AppEngine provides a custom development environment and scalable deployment infrastructure. Enterprise developers can build custom applications using the same systems that power Google applications, with built-in scalability leveraging things like BigTable and GFS.

At Conosco, we steer our small & mid-sized IT support customers away from any form of custom development – it rarely makes any sense for them. But the Apps suite is increasingly attractive, especially for startups, and it’s easy to move over to it gradually as Don says.

The only tech news that really matters today is…Google’s Chrome OS announcement.

What is it? Chrome OS is a light-weight operating system based off of Linux. The OS design ques are based off of those from Google’s Chrome web browser. Because of it’s Linux heritage, Chrome OS’s intent is to provide lightning fast boot-up times (often termed “instant-on”) and shut down times as well. We’re talking something less than 10 seconds.

After turn-on the computer will boot up the Chrome Browser – because most people think a computer is for one thing only: the internet. It will have all your favorite Google Apps. Everything is stored in the “cloud.” No hard drives. Is it safe? I’m not sold on it just yet. As someone who gets rather annoyed when gmail outages occur from time to time, Google needs to step it up if they really want the cloud to be considered a replacement for local storage.

Chrome OS will only be available on netbooks at first by mid-2010.

There’s no doubt that the world is moving rapidly toward a web only and online only world. Google just sees an opportunity to pioneer and spearhead the technology. I’m not surprised.

Still don’t get it? How’s a YouTube video to explain it all? Trust me, it helps!

This one walks your through the interface briefly.

Google System

Version 1.6.155.1603 of Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook has been released for new installs and updates.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
Available worldwide with US English interface

How to access what’s new:
- Multiple calendars
You can now create new calendars in Outlook and they will sync with Google Apps. For any of your Google Apps calendars for which you have write permissions, and that appear unhidden in your Google Apps Calendar list, these will also now be synced to Outlook.

- Support for querying free/busy information for Exchange users
If you are using Google Apps Sync in a mixed Google Apps/Exchange environment, you can query free/busy information for Exchange users by implementing Google Calendar Connectors and adding a new registry key to each computer on which Google Apps Sync is installed.

Get information about the Google Calendar Connectors here. Get information about setting up the new registry key here.

For more information:

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:54 PM PST Google apps update alerts

Le projet d’application web réalisée dans le nuage est à base de 100% de jus de Google concentré.

Il s’agit d’un service web écrit en Java, d’architecture REST via le framework Restlet. Le service web permet de calculer l’ordo d’un jour particulier ou du jour d’aujourd’hui. Pour rendre interopérable le service web, l’architecture REST est bien plus simple que SOAP puisqu’il ne fait qu’utiliser les caractéristiques du HTTP : les paramètres sont passés dans l’URL et l’on gére les opérations GET, POST, PUT et DELETE.

Le service web  fait appel à deux services googleliens :

• Project Hosting on Google Code : il héberge comme SourceForge le code source de projets avec Subversion ou CVS pour pouvoir travailler de façon collaborative avec d’autres développeurs. Le projet en question sur Google Code : http://code.google.com/p/ordocalendarws/,
• Google App Engine (GAE) : la plateforme d’hébergement d’applications web dans le nuage. C’est un service du Cloud Computing de type Paas (Platform As A Service). GAE fournit l’hébergement de son application web écrit en Java ou Python, l’environnement d’exécution pour exécuter son application web via une URL ainsi qu’une base de données sous forme hiérarchique (et non relationnelle) où on y stocke des objets (Java ou python).
  

Nous sommes bien dans les objectifs du Cloud que j’ai expliqués ici :

• Services accessible partout (sur Internet) via un simple navigateur : le tableau de bord, l’hébergement et l’exécution de mon application web sont bien accessibles sur la toile,
• Taux de disponibilité de 99.9%,
• Paiement à la consommation : quota dela version gratuite par jour de 6.50 CPU hours / 1GB Outgoing / 1GB Incoming / 1GB Stored Data / 2000 Email. Pour la version payante : $0.10/CPU hour – $0.12/GB In -  $0.12/GB Out – $0.005/GB-day Stored Data – $0.0001/Email.

Pour avoir un accès au projet sur Google App Engine, envoyez-moi un email.

Take a poll about nothing really.  I’m just testing my google wings.

Google Sites, which launched a little under two years ago, have given businesses and consumers a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making it relatively easy for anyone without a technical background to build a simple website. Now, Google is making it infinitely easier for anyone to create sleek, attractive websites with new feature Templates.

For those that aren’t familiar with this product, Sites is the reincarnation of Jotspot, which Google acquired back in 2006 (though the two products look totally different). The product is Google’s easy-to-use website and wiki builder that’s widely used by businesses, though there’s a consumer option available.

Google Sites now has a fully stocked gallery of public templates that can be used by both consumers and businesses. Google has also created templates that are targeted for business use. Templates let you quickly start a new site with pre-built content, embedded gadgets, page payouts, navigation links, theming and more. And Businesses using Google Apps will also have a private area where employees can share proprietary site templates, which can be made via Sites’ recently launched API, with coworkers. This is actually useful to organizations, such as the Boy Scouts of America, which wants to share templates for chapters over the nation to launch as their platform.

Sites will be free for all Google Apps customers (both paid and free) as well as for consumers. While Sites’ templates can be easily used for collaborative workspaces like employee intranets, project tracking sites, team sites and employee profile pages.

Though templates isn’t a monumental additions to Google Sites, it is a complimentary, easy-to-use and free feature that’s included in Google Apps. The tie-in between the two only reinforces the strategy Google has of continuing to make Google Apps more appealing to businesses to perhaps take a significant bite out of Microsoft’s market share.

Source:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/16/google-sites-become-prettier-with-templates/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Chicago Web Site Design Company

If you’ve decided to you run your own server and you have sufficient resources and know-how you could run your own email server. Alternatively you could make it somebody else’s problem buy using a “cloud” service such as Office Live (limited locations, not AU) or Google Apps. A nearby church with about a dozen people in the office recently switched from using MS Exchange to using Google, and they love it. The great thing about these services is that you can use your own domain, so you can be you@yourdomain.com rather than you@gmail.com.