Craig Roth

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Is an Enterprise Attention Management Tipping Point on the Horizon?

by Craig Roth  |  September 10, 2010  |  2 Comments

After years of following enterprise attention management, I feel a tipping point may finally be in the realm of possibility.  First, a little background.  E-mail overload and information overload are like the weather – everyone complains but no one does anything about them.  Well, maybe not no one – pundits have preached a strong gospel [...]

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Google Gives E-Mail Triage the ‘ol College Try with “Priority Inbox”

by Craig Roth  |  September 3, 2010  |  Comments Off

On August 26th, I wrote about SNARF, an e-mail triage tool based on a scoring model.  Well, if you read that you didn’t have to wait long to see how that type of e-mail triage tool could help you.  Because starting on August 30th, Google announced it is rolling out a “priority inbox” option to [...]

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“Wave” Peters Out?

by Craig Roth  |  August 6, 2010  |  Comments Off

Google Wave is done.  Or “dead” or “cancelled?” What is the right metaphor for not continuing a lab project that was hyped like a real product?  In any case, what does the demise of Google Wave mean to synchronous co-authoring?  Not that much – despite the hype, it didn’t really do that much to raise [...]

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Google Docs Introduces Parallel Computing (Not What You Think)

by Craig Roth  |  May 21, 2010  |  2 Comments

Google has added twitch-level sync co-authoring, a drawing tool, rulers, and other features to Google Docs.  They actually did this a while ago, but you’d be forgiven for not noticing since Google decided to take their innovative (whether you like it or not) silent release process and push it into strange new territory.  Essentially, they [...]

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