Up to now I had largely dismissed the whole Web 2.0/Cloud Computing thing and I still believe a large percentage of it is vendor/IT journalist hype. However, I took a big step away from Microsoft Office today and embraced iGoogle, Google Apps, etc. As previously mentioned, I'm testing out Remember the Milk for my GTD lists, I use Google Calendar to share my calendar with my wife and Gmail has been my home e-mail for year; but I've only dabbled in Google Docs and Google Reader. I've been a Newsgator user for a long time and I proudly remember Office 95 (although I was first introduced to computers on WordPerfect and Quattro Pro, on DOS!), but syncing things between work and home and in between has always been an issue.
The Google Gadgets on iGoogle sold me once I found one for Remember the Milk and a good NWS radar Gadget (we're about to get hammered with thunderstorms), I even set my wife up with her own that included her daily comic strips. Having my Google Reader feeds in my face was just a bonus and I'm trying out Google Notebook. Hopefully this will unburden my thumbdrive a bit and let me push my Blackjack II a little further.
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