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Adobe, no one seems to want to say this to you, but I will. Stop it, you’re embarrassing yourself. You’ve just spent God-knows how much money on an ad buy that blankets much of the technology press (including this site). It’s a strange passive-aggressive message that just makes Jobs’ aggressive-aggressive post from a few weeks ago seem even more forceful. And it’s transparent. But worst of all, it won’t work. You must know this. <<Read the Full Article on TechCrunch>>

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I’m a big believer in mobile: the mobile Web, mobile ads, etc. Mobile means activity and action: somebody doing something useful. It means commerce.

So I’m very gratified that my law firm has been selected to participate in the Google Mobile Ad beta trial.

If your business uses mobile ads, let me know or comment under this post. We should share experiences.

The mobile ads deployed by Google will reference my current listing on Google Local - now known as Google Places:

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Guide to Online Data Syncing Services

(Google Apps Edition)

In July 2009 Computerworld published a great piece on data synchronization methods involving Google, Yahoo, Windows Live, and other services. But I’m going to show my colors here and only cover tools that help you sync Outlook with Google products (especially Google Apps). Sorry if that doesn’t help your situation. For the rest of you, read on to learn about some nifty free apps to keep you in sync. As you know by now, in addition to staples such as Gmail, Google Talk, Google Docs and its Calendar, Google has developed a suite of professional or “enterprise” grade applications called, what else, Google Apps. Google Apps is my answer to the anywhere, anytime, practice; and is designed to play nice with office staple Microsoft Outlook. Google Calendar for instance syncs with Outlook via the free Google Calendar Sync tool as well as third-party tools such as Spanning Sync and BusySync. Mac users have it even better – the Address Book in machines running OS-X 10.5.3 and higher offers native sync support for Gmail contacts – no apps required. For businesses who want to sync it all, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook  is available for $50/user/year; maybe too much of a commitment unless you run a mid-sized firm. A similar tool called Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes helps businesses shift from Notes to Google Apps. For personal users on a PC, third-party tools include

Goosync, a server-based solution that supports syncing of calendars, contacts and tasks

KiGoo a downloadable application that offers syncing of calendars and contacts

SynContact, free software that syncs only contacts

And since Google supports Microsoft ActiveSync  you can also sync an iPhone, iPod Touch or Windows Mobile. And since ActiveSync is natively supported there is no additional software to install. If you use a BlackBerry you can download a sync tool from Google to accomplish similar tasks. Okay, that’s it. Short and sweet. Hope you liked. If you have anything to add please add your comments below.

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