www.nickhodge.com

As per yesterday’s post, I am attempt­ing to live out­side desktop applic­a­tions.

Notes

• Signed up for Google Apps for Your Domain. As I am enter­ing a “micro-business”, I really don’t want to set up all the infra­struc­ture. I hope Doc­u­ments, Spread­sheets and soon Google­Share­point (formerly known as Jot­Spot) will flow into these cus­tom apps soon.
• VoIP. Inter­est­ing thing to research: SIP etc. It’s all too hard. I’d like to have a busi­ness phone num­ber, voice­mail, mobile phone redir­ec­tion etc — without adding a new Tel­stra phoneline. Seems more dif­fi­cult than it should at the moment.
• Wire­less 802.11n: these vir­tual machine vir­tual drives are huge, and 802.11g isn’t fast enough to exchange them to/from the server.
• A Google Con­tact List. I’d like my con­tacts some­where safe in Google. Maybe even a small busi­ness CRM, too. Maybe Google should just buy Stikkit
• Google Cal­en­dar on mobile. At the moment, mobile access is via SMS only (if you are in the US). Just like the excel­lent Gmail mobile inter­face, I should be able to see my cal­en­dar online.

Now ABC News is report­ing that Doc­tors use Google to dia­gnose patients. Every time I go to the doc­tor, he tells me not to con­sult the inter­net for med­ical advice.