Mike Parsons

Mac moves closer to the cloud with Google Docs integration

0 Comments Published by Mike Parsons on Saturday, July 05, 2008 at 18:06.

Precipitation, a new system preference pane, allows Spotlight to index and search files store in Google Docs as well as Google Bookmarks items.It also works with Google Desktop for Mac.

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The Challenges Of Colliding Worlds

0 Comments Published by Mike Parsons on at 17:52.

Jeroen Matser, senior planner and colleague at Tribal DDB talked about the challenges for brands and the creative industry in a landscape of colliding worlds. Read more.

Tourism Australia hands $169m global account to DDB

0 Comments Published by Mike Parsons on at 17:50.

Tourism Australia has appointed DDB Worldwide to handle its $169m advertising account for the next three years. Read more.

Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy

0 Comments Published by Mike Parsons on at 08:25.

The word “privacy” now appears on Google’s home page, with a link to the company’s privacy policy.

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Steve Jobs Documentary

0 Comments Published by Mike Parsons on Friday, July 04, 2008 at 22:38.

A really well done documentary about Steve Jobs made in iMovie by a sophomore in high school for History Day -- the theme is "Triumph and Tragedy."

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At Yahoo, a Threat from Within

0 Comments Published by Mike Parsons on at 22:36.

The central complaint revolves around slow decision-making, a long-standing issue. New services still must run a gauntlet of meetings and approvals that can delay them for months. "It was difficult to get things done," says Greg Yardley, a product manager who left earlier this year.

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No Google source code for Viacom, just 12TB of YouTube data

0 Comments Published by Mike Parsons on at 22:25.

As part of the discovery process in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, Viacom asked for an astonishing array of information: the source code for the search functions that power Google and YouTube, the source code for YouTube's new "Video ID" program, a complete set of every video ever removed from the site, databases containing information on

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Hello: Macs Are About to Get Interesting Again

0 Comments Published by Mike Parsons on at 22:24.

On the future of macs, starting with all new technologies in 10.6, new GPUs that help with general purpose processing, iPhone/iPod halo effect etc. Looking forward to what the future will bring.

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