A wireframe kit for Google Drawings and 5 reasons it beats Omnigraffle and Visio - Morten Just

Awesome article and template on using the new Google Drawings tool to create app wireframes. The template Morten created is easy to save to your own Google Docs and works wonderfully. Thank you for providing such a great little toolkit/template.

Google Docs Adds Major New Features [PICS]

It's hard to argue with the value of a product like Google Docs, which continues to innovate while still being free. Compare it to the monstrosity that is Adobe CS5 at $2600 and you will see why I hate the hegemony of companies like Adobe and Microsoft overcharging us for incremental bloatware without ever really delivering innovation or value.

Amazing Professor's Powerpoint

 

What an amazing teacher. He put so much effort into this. 

Official Gmail Blog: Improved comment collapsing for Google Buzz posts

The Official Gmail Blog reports that the one change I was really wanting has been implemented in Buzz - better collapsed comments. Buzz is now usable. No more monster comment lists that take up page after page on my netbook. Thank you Google for listening to your users.

Hilarious Look Alikes - Stella's Magazine

A fun collection of look alike pictures. Some of these made me cry. LOL

InfoQ: Visualizing Agile Projects using Kanban Boards

My wrestling with agile tools and methods continues with no end in sight. The challenge seems to be getting buy-in from stakeholders that this is the way to go/process to use. Waterfall is so ingrained in our psyches that its almost impossible to get anyone to think different about the process. But we press on. This is a good article focusing on the visual aspect of Kanban process flow. People often mis-define Kanban as a methodology, like Scrum, when in fact it is a toolset. There is a lot of good reading material out there right now on this tool and on other Scrum and XP solutions. There is also no shortage of tools for managing these methodologies. Next challenge is finding a way to integrate Kanban into Basecamp. Anybody doing it out there? Any suggestions?

Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2.

Written by fellow Gen-x'er and SalesForce CEO Marc Benioff. Thought provoking piece and of course, now I really want an iPad. Thank God they are out of stock, so I don't feel so bad for being poor and a late adopter.

Downtown Disney Evening Walk

 

I try to walk somewhere in Disney several nights a week. Epcot is a favorite, but right now the spring break crowds are unbearable. So DTD was a good choice. This is the view from Saratoga Springs Resort. Its about a 2 mile loop or so and very relaxing.

10 Steps To Create The Ultimate Facebook Fan Page for Your Brand

Solid article on doing Facebook fan pages the right way. Some good tips.

How I Live and Breathe Google Reader by @ScepticGeek

This is one of those nice 1st person articles on using a tool I personally like a lot. Thanks to the author for breaking things down this way.