Updated: 1/7/2003; 8:08:51 PM.
Collaboration
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Wednesday, December 04, 2002

All your documents are belong to Google.

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It turns out that all this is explained in the release notes. Which aren't searchable. So, as continues to amaze me, stuff out there in the cloud is easier to find than stuff right here on my own hard disk. Moral: it's fine to ship HTML docs, but give them to Google too.

[Jon's Radio]

I used to maintain this massive "manuals" directory in my UNIX home, at Netscape and Sun, with a web server softlinked to it, to share with my colleagues.

I kept there all the manuals for the tools we were using, for easy reference.

Now I still have the directory but I seldom use it anymore, and don't maintain it anymore: when I need something I use the Google toolbar in my browser.

same thing for my browser bookmarks: I used to maintain this huge sophisticated categorised browser hierarchy. Now I only use it for often used sites and internal sites.

Sometimes it's even quicker to think up 2 good keywords for Google to find me the doc I want than searching for the right bookmark in my toolbar !


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