Google (and Apple) can't seem to make anything successful without Microsoft releasing their own spin on it. Google search led to Bing, the iPod led to Zune, and now Google Docs have led to Microsoft's collaboration with Facebook, Docs.com.
Microsoft announced some time ago that it was working on a Web-friendly version of Office 2010, but the integration with Facebook is the first widespread public test of the new features. Along with the ability to edit and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with specific people from within your Facebook friend list, the app posts a notification that you've shared a document on your news feed, and your friends receive a notification that you've shared a document with them as well.
Your friends can edit the document, download it to their desktop, or leave a comment on it using Facebook's existing comment tools. "You can have people sort of swarming around a document,...
Microsoft announced some time ago that it was working on a Web-friendly version of Office 2010, but the integration with Facebook is the first widespread public test of the new features. Along with the ability to edit and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with specific people from within your Facebook friend list, the app posts a notification that you've shared a document on your news feed, and your friends receive a notification that you've shared a document with them as well.
Your friends can edit the document, download it to their desktop, or leave a comment on it using Facebook's existing comment tools. "You can have people sort of swarming around a document,...
- 4/21/2010
- by Dan Nosowitz
- Fast Company
Australian actress Isabel Lucas may currently be climbing Kilimanjaro with a host of her celebrity friends for charity, but just before she left she recorded an advert for the the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
“Isabel was out here late last year and appeared on Rove and said she would love to support us,” said the organisation’s Australian director Jeff Hansen. He went on to explain that the ad was actually filmed last winter, but now is the time to act as the organization battles the Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.
The Australian advert coincides with Lucas’ climb for charity.
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“Isabel was out here late last year and appeared on Rove and said she would love to support us,” said the organisation’s Australian director Jeff Hansen. He went on to explain that the ad was actually filmed last winter, but now is the time to act as the organization battles the Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.
The Australian advert coincides with Lucas’ climb for charity.
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- 1/11/2010
- Look to the Stars
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