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Thing 20: Google Docs

12/15/2010

 
OK, first, I LOVE GOOGLE. I love what they makes and in general I love the way they do business. (Note: all large companies, including Google, mess up sometimes. See Google Books Lawsuit. This is obviously not the place to go into it in depth, but this is a really complicated situation. Ask me some time if you want to talk about it.)

 
Back to Google Docs. The concept, is great. Like I said, I love Google and most of the things they produce. The problem I have now, is that while they have developed so many great things and done it quickly, Google Docs is WAY behind in functionality. I do use it on a regular basis, and I just used it to write a group paper in grad school, but when it comes to actually creating documents, especially spreadsheets, I always, always have to download the document to edit them. Very frustrating!


Alright, so here are my three things to use Google docs for:


1. Collaborate on a group paper
2. Collaborative homework problem/discussions
3. Surveys using Google forms

 
This last one, is something I do use all the time, but again, I'm going to have to start using something else until Google gets it's act together and make it much more usable. 

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