Google Apps Hacks--New from O'Reilly: Lofty New Ways to Create, Organize, and Share in the Cloud

17.04.08 - 02:36 ... source : O'Reilly Media

... When Google lifted traditional office applications into its "cloud" of fast network connections, powerful servers, and seemingly limitless storage, it changed the way many of us create, organize, and share information--and even write books. In fact, a timely new title from O'Reilly, Google Apps Hacks: Tips & Hacks for Unlocking the Power of Google Applications (O'Reilly, $29.99) was drafted and edited in the cloud. With an ocean and several time zones separating German author Philipp Lenssen and his O'Reilly editor, they turned to the Google apps suite to write and revise this highly anticipated new book. "My editor, Brian Jepson, and I wrote it using the Google Docs document editor," explains Lenssen, who runs Google Blogoscoped, a daily news source covering all things Google. "This editor allows sharing, so when I finished a page in draft mode, I would invite Br ...» Next (HTML)