In the mid-Nineties, when the Filofax was battling with Lotus Organizer for the title of King of the PIMs; as the PC industry was blooming and before the days of Apple Stores, a device so cool it was like something from science fiction began to get some buzz. The Apple Newton. Of course, there was no way I could afford one of these mythical things, so I opted for the next best thing: the Amstrad PenPad.

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Just because Google has seemingly infinite resources, it doesn’t make them immune from the kind of challenges that face IT departments in companies, large and small, all over the world.

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On Wednesday, the Google Reader team announced that shared items would be published via PubSubHubbub hub, meaning that anything I share will now how up on – for example – Friendfeed within seconds (there’s a great video in that post showing this behaviour in action). Louis Gray followed up with a post about he depends [...]

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