Now that I’m working at Citrix Online, I’m coming up to speed on the ways in which our collaboration products like GoToMeeting are being used. One of the interesting outreach efforts is workshifting.com, based on a new term workshifting: If you work out of coffee shops, hotels, airports and your home every bit as much as the office, workshifting.com is for you. We share resources on telecommuting, online tools, travel, technology, business & virtual offices to help you shift when, where & how you work. If you want to follow along with the latest, subscribe to the website feed and/or…
After 6.5 years at Yahoo (working with the engineering teams behind Yahoo! Messenger and the Yahoo! Developer Network), I’ve made a career move this month and joined Citrix Online. I’ll be part of the engineering management team for the collaboration products which include GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToTraining.
50 years ago this week the Wide World of Sports debuted on ABC: “Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport. The thrill of victory, and agony of defeat. The human drama of athletic competition. This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports.” Today ESPN’s SportsCenter ran through their list of the 10 best Wide World of Sports moments: Unbridled winning the 1990 Kentucky Derby Richard Petty’s 200th (and final) win in 1984; notable for Petty’s post-race celebration with Ronald Reagan, the first time a sitting US president attended a NASCAR race In 1975, German magician Ralf Bialla…
For a side project I’m working on, I want to support several different “read it later” type applications. Looking for apps that have both mobile support and APIs, it looks like the most popular options are Instapaper, Read It Later, and Readability. All of these accomplish a similar task: bookmark a web page for later reading, and formatting it for easier reading. Mobile support is usually included, either for reading articles bookmarked earlier, or marking new ones to read on a desktop at a later time. Here’s a quick summary of each service: Instapaper Free service with an optional subscription…
Normally I rely on the mobile edition of Yahoo Sports but recently realized they are completely missing any coverage of NCAA Women’s Basketball, specifically the Final Four tournament now in progress.
Fortunately, ESPN mobile is giving the women equal billing with a dedicated section just for the NCAA Women’s Tournament.