Personal Information Management

Google and the "Got The Wrong Bob" Problem

(No, there's no need to verify Bob's ID at the next class.)

Having received a misaddressed email from a classmate recently, I was delighted to see this new Gmail feature from Google Labs.  It might be just the ticket for solving what they refer to as the "Got The Wrong Bob" problem: even a unique identifier like an email address doesn't help when misapplied.

Personal contacts restored to Sidekick users

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5il908VQYZ0AFvVbtTYna7...

 

In the spirit of today's lecture topic.

Last week, a T-mobile spokesperson said:

"personal information stored on your devices – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly been has lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger." Nonetheless, "our teams continue to work around-the-clock in hopes of discovering some way to recover this information."

 

One Ring to Rule Them All: Google Voice centralizes calls to your home, office and cell--and transcribes messages

 This article in TIME Magazine by Josh Quittner briefly describes a service offered by Google where you can pick one central phone number which will simultaneously route the call to x number of other phones (landline and/or mobile numbers), freeing you from being at a particular phone in order to answer the call... for those times when someone *really* needs to reach you quickly, I guess.

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