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Moon Travel

Just got home in time to catch this 'moment' in time.

>> What: A plane flying in front of the moon.
>> When: Dusk
>> Where: My backyard

Google Apps Serving 1 Million Businesses

I've been a huge fan of Microsoft Office for years. 

I know it inside and out and like it - even love it.

But it still costs several hundred dollars per seat.  Starting back up a lean growth company this past year and thinking about how to enable more web-based collaboration, sharing, etc - and at the same time reduce costs... We'll Google Apps fits the bill.

http://www.google.com/apps | Google's Post

The basic version is free.  The premium version is $50/user per year. We run most of our business on it now.  Everyone has access to docs, presentations and spreadsheets anywhere they are - home or office.

The premium version is the better choice. You can migrate your exchange mail to gmail (all your messages, folders, instantly google searchable!) and it includes Postini messaging security, APIs for integrating Google Apps with IT infrastructure, 24x7 support, 99.9 percent uptime guarantee for e-mail, Google Video and 25GB of storage per account.

Since early this year Google has been touting 500,000 active business customers, primarily small businesses, using at least one of the Google Apps, and more than 10 million active users. In addition, thousands of universities, with more than one million active users, are using Google Apps, the company said. So far, Google's biggest wins are Valeo, a leading automotive suppliers, with 32,000 users, and the District of Columbia, with 38,000 employees.

The company has been saying that it is adding 3,000 businesses a day, which amounts to over 1 million per year.

• Google also just added Video for Business to its Google apps suite. 
  
• Here are all the Google App's intro and demo videos
  

The Art of Raising Venture Capital

Guy Kawasaki (http://blog.guykawasaki.com) posted these very insightful video's on raising venture capital.

LinkedIn's native iPhone Application

It's hot, helpful and handy - you now have ALL your LinkedIn relationships, contact info and updates right at your fingertips.  One of the best iPhone apps available.

http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/08/announcing-link.html

Google Releases Picasa v3.0 - Breathtaking

Get it now at http://picasa.google.com

Picassa 3 is the best computer photo management available and it's free.

Picasa Web Albums hosts billions of online photos from around the globe, with users adding millions of new snapshots every day.

Here is the Demo/Overview Video:

12 Tools for Research on the Web

Mashable shares a great overview of several tools to help with:

• http://mashable.com/2008/09/01/research-tools/

Learn how to save text, audio, video and links during your research online and share these collections of notes with your colleagues.

Organizational Tools

• iLeonardo
• Google Notebook
• Zoho Notebook
• UberNote
• EverNote

Browser Extensions & Addons

• ClipMarks
• iLighter
• Twitterlights
• Dappad
• Scrapbook
• WiredMarker
• NetNotes

World's Strongest Man Competition in Charleston

www.theworldsstrongestman.com

Will be taking place in Charleston, WV and is sponsored by West Virginia Coal Association, Brickstreet Insurance, Pepsi, Chesapeake Energy and the state Lottery and Division of Tourism.

The Charleston area will have two athletes in the competition. Phil Pfister, a former Charleston firefighter, won the 2006 event in China. Brian Siders is a champion power lifter who will be competing in his first event.

12 New Rules of Work

Zen Habits posted a great article on how we are (or how we should) be working - given the new tools available to us in this new global, economy. The article goes into great depth on each point: Here's a recap:

The New Rules of Working

1. Online apps and the cloud beat the desktop and hard drive.
2. Collaborate on documents, don’t email them.
3. Collaboration is the new productivity.
4. People don’t have to be in an office.
5. Archive, don’t file.
6. Small teams are better than large teams.
7. Communication is a stream.
8. Fewer tasks are better than many.
9. Meeting (usually) suck.
10. Open-source is better than closed.
11. Rest is as important as work.
12. Focus, don’t crank.

60 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded in 30 days, Produces $30 Million in Sales

A very encouraging report for application developers and iPhone users. Here are the breaking stats as of this morning:

• Users have now downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone and iPod touch, about 2 million per day.
• Revenue from those applications came to about $30 million.
  
• 70% went to the developers; Apple kept 30%.
  
• At that pace, Apple stands to clear at least $360 million a year.
• Steve Jobs says “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” Jobs said in a Wall Street Journal Interview. “Who knows, maybe it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time…I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software.”
• Of the $21 million that developers cleared in the first month, roughly $9 million went to the creators of the top 10 best sellers.

Apple recently announced that they topped 5 Billion iTunes songs sold.