The one-person work flow
Posted on September 25, 2008
Filed Under All, Apple, Context, Technology, Weblogging |
Admittedly, gulker.com is a small operation: we have one ‘employee,’ sometimes two, sorta, kinda. So, we don’t have the kinds of coordination problems as do bigger enterprises with dozens, or hundreds or thousands of workers. Meetings are easy to schedule - outside of my gym and physical rehab time, I’m wide open, usually.
Nevertheless, I need a way to communicate my availability to my spouse, at least, and occasionally to others. I also need to engage with the people and companies I write about, and its great to be able to get to my works-in-progress, be they blog posts, written essays or photography and also to deliver them to my readers and clients.
While I applaud Apple’s effort to finally make .Mac into something more useful than its previous iterations, Google has really beaten Apple, and everyone else to the punch. Fore one thing, Google was there first, for another, most of their apps are cloud-based and OS independent, requiring nothing but a browser and a Net connection. I move from my powerful quad-core desktop Mac to my Linux-based EeePC ultraportable without blinking. Everything just works. Kind of like a Mac, but it’s in the cloud…
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