TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

You hear so much about data these days that you might forget that a huge amount of the world runs on documents : a veritable menagerie of heterogeneous files and formats holding enormous value yet incompatible with the new era of clean, structured databases. Hugging Face raises $40 million for its natural language processing library.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Mintlify , a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 Wang said the idea for Mintlify came from his and Lee’s experiences in software development, which involved working with documentation that wasn’t always complete or of the highest quality.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones. For example, if you type “# Google Docs is getting more Markdown support” it’ll automatically get converted to a level one heading.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I’ll do another few posts for other areas, like development, system maintenance, personal web presence, and writing. (If I have definitely noticed that I’ve been migrating a lot of functionality of things that I do to web-based apps of one type or another, and this is one example of that. Evernote rocks my world.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The new feature will work similarly to Google Docs’ Smart Compose option, using machine learning to predict what words an author will need to speed up document creation. Word will highlight grayed-out predictions when users are writing a document, and the suggestions can be accepted using the Tab key or rejected by hitting Escape.

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Google is updating its office software on mobile devices for G Suite users, adding new features to the Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps that should make it easier to get work done from your smartphone. Google is also bundling in the news that Dark Mode is available for Docs, Sheets, and Slides, though it announced that last month.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? These could be articles, resources or documents. Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins. How do we get constituents to log in?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Six months after launching its end-to-end encrypted document editor , Skiff has bagged another $10.5 million in Series A funding in the bank, Skiff’s co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg tell TechCrunch that the company is working toward becoming the “application layer for the decentralized web.” Now with $10.5

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Robert Weiner

JULY 23, 2009

The front-page headlines read " Hacker steals Twitter's confidential documents ," but the real story isn't about Twitter — it's that the stolen documents were stored online, "in the cloud." They can't control the password requirements for web-based email accounts or cloud computing apps. They can't do that for cloud apps.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Confirmation before permanently deleting docs or books. Amazon now supports permanent document and book deletion from personal libraries directly from newer Kindle e-readers. That leads to dozens or even hundreds of items cluttering the layout that can only be removed using Amazon’s rudimentary web interface or iOS and Android apps.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The change will happen on June 1st, 2021, and it comes with other Google Drive policy changes like counting Google Workspace documents and spreadsheets against the same cap. Alongside photos, “Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms and Jamboard files” will also begin counting against storage caps.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The new version has 72 closed issues on GitHub, which include dozens of bug fixes, documentation enhancements, and a few new and improved features. changelog: Added four new example templates to the docs, including a narrow marketing page, sign in form, sticky footer, and a fancy carousel (created for an upcoming.net magazine article).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Last month, when I had my horrible computer crash, I lost one or two documents and a few emails. I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. I've been using online wikis - documents and more recently, spreadsheet wikis for the past year. I'm not complaining.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The startup lets you turn a regular web app into a multiplayer product with high-level hosted APIs. Over the past few years, building a web app has become easier thanks to frameworks and APIs. But letting multiple people interact with the same document, form, whiteboard or piece of content is still incredibly hard.

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The Next Web

JULY 14, 2012

Stick With What Works, Google Docs. We use Google Docs for everything. In my opinion, it’s the simplest way to have multiple people work on one document and keep things organized.” “ Zoho allows you to collaborate with its online Wiki, edit Word and Excel documents, and have live discussions. All the Way!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Promotional videos of the beta app show it being able to photograph everything from plants to TVs and then quickly imported into documents as cropped objects. 1/n #ML #AR #AI pic.twitter.com/0fQJQ8KRBv — Cyril Diagne (@cyrildiagne) October 22, 2020.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Being able to share drawings with his child may have been an initial motivation for Qin, but he also wanted to build a tool for connecting his work documents in a kind of internal web that could be shared across any device, either for an individual or a team of users. “I Those platforms store text in single documents.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Essentially, it lets you create multiplayer experiences on the web or in your app. If you integrate this API in your product, it means that you can show when somebody joins a page, a project or a document by displaying an avatar in a corner. A React front-end developer can read the documentation and integrate Liveblocks in its product.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

While we're programmatically just starting to tip our toes into social media, we operate efficiently primarily using a variety of web-based services and tools. A staff member or volunteer with access to a browser connected to the web has everything he/she needs to fight colorectal cancer with us. Which leads me to.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

While we're programmatically just starting to tip our toes into social media, we operate efficiently primarily using a variety of web-based services and tools. A staff member or volunteer with access to a browser connected to the web has everything he/she needs to fight colorectal cancer with us. Which leads me to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

She turned to Facebook to ask how we might document the day for those who couldn’t join in person. After much discussion about Etherpad, Piratepad, okfnpad, Storify, and other tools, we settled on good old Google docs.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

I’m excited for some of the new stuff coming to the Microsoft Edge browser , mainly the new 3D view in the web inspector. It’s trying once again to lead developers out of the Windows app framework thicket with Project Reunion, which at a high level abstracts all the Win32 vs modern vs web problems away for developers.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

It has its own Google Doc.) As Community Manager at NTEN, my job is to take the conversations already happening in our office, at the NTC , and in the 501 Tech Clubs , and move those onto the social web so that they can happen more consistently and reach more people. What makes it official? I scoured the internet for resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 The API is SOAP.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) We’re really behind the concepts of cloud computing and Web 2.0.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2022

Probably the easiest way to share a file is to just attach a document to an email, or to a Slack or other instant message. If you’re sharing traditional documents that way, you could also quickly find yourself playing the “who has the most current version” game. But either way invites trouble on several fronts. End-to-end encryption.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Training and Documentation Though none of the Center’s staff regularly uses social media personally, Risa Breckman decided that the entire team should be involved in the planning and training process so that knowledge-sharing efficiencies could emerge. The resource list is really the “go to document for all things online.”

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 13, 2025

I write stories like this in Google Docs on my laptop. They can write this article better than me, make YouTube videos more popular than Mr. Beasts, do the work of an army of accountants, and review millions of discovery documents for a multibillion-dollar lawsuit, all in a matter of minutes.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2011

The site lets users create agendas, invite and notify members, and attach documents in advance of the meeting, and create minutes and task lists and give members the ability to view and update them during meetings. “It It had nice agenda and minutes features, and good document sharing,” Wolber said. “I

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Quote from Kristina Halvorson) It’s an essential step in the Web Design process that’s often overlooked or skimped upon. Articulating content priorities for your homepage and other key pages/sections of your web presence. Stay tuned!

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

When I was seed-stage fundraising, I liked to keep an investor wish-list on a Google doc. This document should not only keep track of your status with each one, but also who you have in common with each person. But you have to help them be helpful. They don’t know who you’ve already talked to and where you need help.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Here’s our toolkit: Campfire (it’s like a digital water cooler), GoToMeeting (video conferencing meetings, and screen sharing), Google Docs (document collaboration and editing), Sprint.ly (task management for software companies), and email. Yet they don’t have a single employee in Silicon Valley.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg is a pioneer of the social web. Despite how the web has transformed over the years, email is the one constant that has remained and is not going away anytime soon. Looking to purchase an item on the web? For example: Looking to sign up for more information about your favorite nonprofit?

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 3, 2020

Here are some examples of essential tools for communication and collaboration: Web-based video conferencing tools, such as Zoom. Document sharing and collaborating tools, such as Google docs. Document signature tools, such as DocuSign and SignNow. Team collaboration tools, such as Confluence.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2009

Whether I'm in a remote office, on the road, working from home, or just sitting down the hall, sharing documents and using other collaborative tools online saves time, money, and the environment. Collaborating online also means that there's less need to print out those shared documents.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2009

The front-page headlines read " Hacker steals Twitter's confidential documents ," but the real story isn't about Twitter — it's that the stolen documents were stored online, "in the cloud." They can't control the password requirements for web-based email accounts or cloud computing apps. They can't do that for cloud apps.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Dropbox also tracks versions of documents across the team. Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs. At $50 per user per month, Blueworks web service is pricey. I am not sure I can or want to recover.

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