Google buzz and outlook 2010 social conn…

It doesn’t have to be perceived as going head-to-head against Buzz unless that’s how Microsoft insists on marketing it. The very real possibility exists that Buzz could be connected to Social Connector, by means of the open API that Microsoft began distributing to Office developers since the release of the public beta. A snippet from the activities list that appears beside a contact or a contact’s e-mail message, in Outlook 2010 with Social Connector attached. [Courtesy Microsoft]Betanews asked Microsoft spokespersons representing that opposite hemisphere, how likely is it that Google Buzz will become represented in Outlook Social Connector?

Technically, we were told, it’s absolutely feasible. Microsoft would not preclude Google from making Buzz connectivity feasible in Social Connector.

What that means is that it won’t be Microsoft that does the deed, though it may be Microsoft that provides the incentive for Google to do the deed and that makes it look like Google’s the one that’s abstaining, if it chooses not to take action.Will Google do the deed?

Betanews asked our contacts at Google, who firmly responded with several “no comments” embellished with the telltale phrase “for now. ” Spokespersons cautiously agreed that the phrase “for now” is intentional; that this situation could change without noticemaking this one of the more telling sets of “no comments” we could receive.

I'm the leader of a 9 people team. I was told by my professor to put together a schedule/timeline so we all know what's due when. I haven't been able to do this since I needed to find out certain information from the rest of the team otherwise the dates I would assign wouldn't make any sense. Am I supposed to just put it all together with tentative dates and just change dates once I find out what are the realistic due dates? Should I also write down what tasks are supposed to begin on certain dates as well as their due date? I find it really difficult to put this down into words/schedule since it feels like we are playing it by ear since we need the team's input for a lot of these decision. We got in trouble today for not having the timeline ready, we are one our 5th week of the project for which we only meet 2 times a week. What's the best way to do this? I don't have microsoft project. I wish it was something I was as familiar with as word or powerpoint.
by Judy @ September 26, 2007 12:01 am
Of course you need team input. You need a list of all the steps that must be done to complete the project - then you need to figure out what tasks need to be done before others can be done. Then you'd put times on each task. The team together should develop the list of tasks, the dependencies, and time estimates for each task. Then you'd need to decide who is going to do each task - be careful that one person doesn't have 300 hours of work to do in one week. After you have all of this put together, it falls into a timeline, which is basically a schedule. The timeline will show both start dates and end dates.

Pages: 1 2