Archive for August, 2008
Rosebud acquires a patent*
Rosebud PLM has moved to the next level with its WYSIWYG collaboration tool, Rosebud, based around Adobe PDF.
They announce that:
…”our unique method of collaboration on the Web — ‘Method and Software for enabling N-way collaboration work over the network for computers’ is officially designated as ‘patent pending’.”
and that….
Rosebud enables full lifecycle document review [...]
Just what is a digital document?
An interesting question — obviously given our background we ask ourselves this question all the time. Is it an email, a PDF, an HTML file, a blog or a page of blogs, what about a mySpace page — or even your facebook profile.
What exactly is a tweet? A valuable document — or as some say, [...]
Convert web pages to PDF with Ubiquity
Mozilla Labs have just released Ubiquity, an experiment in using command-like calls to interact with web services. Users of the Google ‘command-line’ — if you don’t know what I’m talking about at this point type time in new york into Google — will most likely find this tool pretty useful. By the way, it’s a [...]
Go Paperless
When I stumbled across a YouTube video called The Paperless Office - A Business Saga a few days ago, I also stumbled across a bunch of other “paperless office” themed videos, to which I’ll post links over the next couple of weeks. The one I have embedded into this post is somewhat special. It appears [...]
Dear Adobe: love it or hate it - a little user feedback
No matter how much you like a particular piece of software, there’s almost certainly something about it that irks you, whether it be the installer, the start-up time, a bug that never gets fixed or featuritis. Enter Dear Adobe, a place where you can vent about Adobe products until your heart’s content.
Submit your own gripes or rate [...]
The Paperless Office — A Business Saga
…and now for something completely different. I guess these guys (omtool) must have read all those books on viral marketing. Anyway, good on them for spicing things up a bit — you don’t see much of this in the document management space — check it out:
6 tips for a ‘paperless’ office from Microsoft
The Microsoft Small Business Center has published 6 tips for a ‘paperless’ office. Here’s a summary:
Without paper, make sure you’re backing up files.
Realize that a paperless office doesn’t happen overnight.
You’ll need to rearrange your office.
“Paperless” often really means “less paper”.
Everyone has to buy in.
Realize that less paper is just the beginning [...]
Transition complete!
Finally, after 3 years of struggling to hold onto my copious amounts of email and various document attachments, and battling with Outlook interfacing (poorly) with my Exchange Server, and Google Apps, I’ve found a solution.
As you can imagine, dragging and dropping email from one mailbox to another using IMAP, or POP3, just doesn’t cut it [...]
Gmail as an online storage system
For the past few years I have been using Gmail to handle my work and personal email accounts. But I was starting to wonder if it could possibly handle more than just mail, document storage perhaps? A quick search on my trusty friend Lifehacker revealed the answer: yes, Gmail can indeed be used for document [...]
Personal Information Baloney
Wow, if you look up personal information management (about as close as you’ll get to personal document management) on Wikipedia you’d be hard pressed to say that it’s easy to read with straight up lingo — or that it even makes much sense at all. In fact, even Wikipedia has a preface which states that,
“This [...]
Publishing documents online
Over the past week we have blogged a little (here and here) about viewing documents online as Flash documents, instead of PDFs. Today I am going to look at a few of the online platforms that can be used to publish your documents online.
Scribd - Scribd is a document sharing website that claims to host over 350,000 [...]
