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From a Google FAQ:

If I share a collection with a mailing list, or set it to public (on the Web or in a domain for Enterprise users) will the collection automatically appear in other people's Documents List?

No, people in the group and those within your domain need to click the URL in the invitation you send for the shared collection to appear in their Documents List. When you set a collection to Public, everyone gets permission to access the collection. However, the collection appears in people's Documents List only after they've opened it by clicking a link sent via invite, email, or chat.

This, as it turn out, is a bad idea. As users join an organization or a group, or if they fail to click on the link sent to them, their document lists are not updated. The main feedback I get from users is that they feel that either they have done some thing wrong, or that there is something misconfiguration on the domain. I fail to see why Google have decided to do things this way, or why they do not provide a way to change this behavior.

Leo Laporte is annoyed by some Buzz glitz, and has gone back to good old blogging. The made me think of the difference between social networks and content creation. In a nutshell, social network and content management can be viewed as separate tools. Most of the tweets, buzzes or LinkedIn updates of any long term value I see are actually links to posts. This means that social networks are transport tools for the actual goods, not unlike public transport. You can use it to move around, but you do not want to limit yourself to one type of transport 1 or one carrier2.

John C. Dvorak, noted that cloud based service (of which all social network services are) are fickle. Other note that it is simply misused3. The case put forward by Efrat is that recruiters don't leverage social network with other HR tools, but simply use it to flush out information, and do not continue the discourse, either on or off the social network of choice.

• 1. ship, train, plane or taxi
• 2. Although they would love to keep you, which is why we have frequent fliers and transit cards.
• 3. Thanks to Efrat Aggasi

Two excellent articles in All About Symbian:

• Ewan Spence questions whether whether Symbian needs a new user interface
• Steve Litchfield goes against the trend that puts the touch screen as the best phone interface.

To this, let me add my two cents worth.

I like my N900 for what seems like the wrong reasons:

• Resistive screen. Possibly because of the I am a Palm veteran, I find I like having a stylus handy, mainly for sketching, but also allowing for higher density applications or checklists.
• Hardware keyboard. Maybe Fat fingers; maybe a history with Psion and the E61; maybe the need to actually see whats on screen without the virtual keyboard hogging all the space.

Apple and Android developers would benefit from those articles. Nokia should pay more attention to them as well. If I understand it correctly, Nokia would benefit from having both MeeGo and Symbian with distinctive hardware and interface.

השבוע בדמוקרטיה הישראלית. מצד אחד זכויות האזרח נרמסו, מצד שני מותר לנו לעשות פיפי. לאור מאזן זה, שאל אותי חבר, מה עדיף, דיקטטורה או אנרכיה? תמיד היו בעולם מנהיגים טובים, שהייתי שמח אילו נטלו את המושכות אצלנו. לפני 20 שנה היה זה המלך חוסיין, לפני 10 שנים ביל קלינטון. היום זהו אריק שמידט.

הרי זה רק הגיוני. פעם הממשל היה מרכזי ושלט בכל. נקרא לו ממשל 1.0. הוא ידע הכל, מאז ולתמיד.