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Google Apps vs Exchange (or hosted Exchange). After reading the big news today, it made me wonder:

Which is better - Google Apps or MS Exchange Server 2007?

I currently pay Mailstreet, a hosted Exchange Provider over $25 per mailbox per month. I get Wireless Access, Outlook Web Access, and SPAM/AV Filtering. However, that’s less than 500MB of disk space per account for $25 per month. Exchange is over-priced.

So, let’s see if I am giving up anything by switching from Hosted MS Exchange to Google Apps…

Google Apps Pros:

MS Exchange Pros:

Verdict:
While it’s quite a compelling offering, I’m still missing some important pieces. The most important pieces (in my opinion):

1. Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks Sync. Currently you can buy a Calendar Sync. as a 3rd party add-on, but when will all this be standard?
2. Google Apps offers mobile and even Blackberry access, so for me, their are only 2 major reasons left to have Exchange. Hopefully Google will address these.

What’s more, it looks like Google has addressed all the major Enterprise concerns in this funny Press Release by a Hosted Exchange Provider.

Post a comment, let me know what you think!

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Which design should I use?

A - Cordobo Green Park Theme
B - Vistered Little Theme
C - Another theme - please make a suggestion, you can start with these links:

* Themes.WordPress.net, the official theme directory
* List of themes on the Codex
* Alex King’s Theme Directory
* Template Monster Wordpress themes
* Any Template Monster Design

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Why should I do the right thing? Because of Morals? Because of Religion? I thought this was the Internet, and I thought I didn’t have to do the right thing!

A new startup, http://www.dotherightthing.com/, is supplying transparency and putting pressure on companies to do the right thing.

Quoted from there tutorial:

* Share information that you discover about companies’ impacts on people and the world
* Learn about the activities of companies directly from people and rate the impact of the important ones
* Track the “social performance” of companies in real time

What do you think? I’d like to see a poll on whether DoTheRightThing.com is good or bad (Positive or Negative in their terms). Take a look at the Techcrunch post for more info.

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Google TV, a very elaborate hoax! On one hand, I was interested… I think it’s time that a company like Google comes out with a TV service. Fortunately, I don’t have enough time on my hands to try out the 11 - 1,000 logins that they imply it requires.

The easiest way to know this is a fake? If you watch closely, the video shows tv.google.com as the hostname for this new service. Someone suggested pinging tv.google.com. Alas, it’s possible that they block ping. What’s not possible, it to hide the fact the DNS records exists or not.

Don’t just trust me, Go See for yourself!:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=tv.google.com&type=A

You’ll see that is says:

Response:
No A records exist for tv.google.com, and tv.google.com does not exist.

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What is it?

It's a networked emoticon device.

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I'm famous… well maybe to a small group.  See this page talking about the manila 9.5 release and you'll see my name credited.

It's nice to see my name in lights, but outside of Userland - David Bayly deserves all the credit!

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Now this is cool.  Google Desktop Search 2 (Beta).  It combines a sidebar with it (like a program called AppRocket I used to use).

It indexes more including my outlook contacts, Gmail, and does RSS!

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Google Map of New Orleans on Wednesday, August 31 at 10 am

Wow.

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