Ever since I downloaded the beta of the new Evernote, I’ve thought there was one feature that would really make this more useful. While, I certainly understand the convenience of automatically syncing notes between the offline and online versions of the product (Giving me the best of OneNote and Google Notebook? Maybe..), my professional life…
It’s 2008, yet I’m constantly surprised how much some organizations don’t think about how much we’re all connected to each other, and to information. Seriously, if you feel like it’s important that someone receive news from your organization directly, in a personal phone call, don’t issue a press release, post it on your website, and…
Circumstances pushed me to updating to the latest release candidate of Firefox 3.0. Namely, Firefox becoming completely unstable on my Macbook Pro. As I mentioned, I had started messing with 3.0 RC1 with a mobile version running off my thumb drive, trying to hold off updating any of my machines until it was an official…
I got an early morning email from the ABA Journal today announcing some new features. The most intriguing one to me is Blawg Search: We’ve partnered with Justia.com, the leading legal information portal, to create a search engine covering all of the 1,800-plus blogs in our directory — including yours. It’s like Google for lawyers,…
I said I would give it an honest try, even though I didn’t really see the benefit. I have, and while I do see some benefits from FriendFeed, I’m just not nearly as big a fan as some others are. Yes, the ability to comment, or “like” stuff that the people you’re following in one…
Today at a local ILTA event, I saw a presentation about a company called Index Engines. They built enterprise search appliances, and one of their big sales pitches to the legal industry is that they can index from tape backups. This is somewhat huge. As it stands now, to do electronic discovery on data that…