June 17th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 3 Comments »
Interesting article on why groups fail to share information effectively. I thought the article would claim that in some environments people horde information intentionally to benefit themselves in some way. But no, the point was that people typically withhold information which isn’t already agreed to or well known by the group they’re with
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Seems bizarre, but the research they cite claims this is true.
June 10th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | No Comments »
Lifehacker has a pretty good description of the different flavors of malware (viruses, trojan horses, spyware, scareware, and worms), although they leave out phishing attacks and probably a bunch of others you security folks could point us to.
June 9th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 2 Comments »
Up to 114,000 iPad users (including Michael Bloomberg and Diane Sawyer) unwittingly exposed their email addresses to the public through a security gaffe. Apple products have never been recognized as the CISO’s products of choice, but this one looks to be primarily AT&T’s goof. Read about it here.
AT&T responds.
June 7th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 1 Comment »
Modern Socity: Get ready. The Sun is waking up.
June 6th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 7 Comments »
Google is trying to make its way into the Enterprise. Google has primarily been a consumer company, trading information for advertising attention. It is now gearing up for a new revenue stream. Google’s aim is for online enterprise apps to be an annual billion dollar business.
Its value propositions is price and simplicity. Google is definitely cheap. A company pays $50 per user per year and gets email, IM (text, voice and video), group calendaring, online apps (basic spreadsheet and word processor), spam filtering, server virus filtering, and mobile integration. If you want super basic functionality, this is great. Many of our employees would be just fine with Google Apps.
Many employees need more sophisticated tools, however. Sophisticated Excel stuff. Powerpoint presentations. Macros. Functions. 3rd party software integration. We use Microsoft Office and Exchange to satisfy those needs.
The problem is that the Google and Microsoft worlds don’t co-exist well. Being a mixed shop can be difficult, but we’re trying it out where it makes sense. Recently we replaced the email system used by 52,000 missionaries worldwide with a white label version of GMail. We’re currently mirgrating another 20,000 people who are associated with the Church in various ways. We still use Microsoft Office and Exchange internally, but are watching carefully how things go with the missionaries. So far we’ve been very happy with Gmail, but aren’t ready to replace employee email and productivity apps with Google apps yet.
Most of the CIOs I talk to are concerned with security. Google is aware of these concerns and trying to take steps to resolve them. This isn’t a huge concern for us. We feel that Google is secure enough for our use cases.
I’m interested to see how well Google makes inroads into the enterprise.
June 6th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 4 Comments »
Gospel Library is now available for iPad. This version includes the ability to rotate the screen and also better readability than the iPhone version on the iPad.
Look for new features in both platforms in the future!
April 11th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 6 Comments »
Here is a link to the iPhone Gospel Library (Lbry). Thanks for the feedback so far!
As I mentioned in the comments of the last post, we’re working on versions for Android, WinMo, Palm and Blackberry.
April 10th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 15 Comments »
[joel (10:50pm, 4/10): I mention a May beta release of lds.org, but these features actually come in the June release.]
We’ve just released our second iPhone app: Gospel Lbry. [joel: corrected.]
It’s on the iPhone app store now. You can download and access the scriptures, hymns, various manuals, proclomations and so forth. It’s got some pretty nifty features that some of the main scripture apps out there don’t have. And it’s free.
When the May beta.lds.org comes out, you’ll be able to sync annotations with your online gospel study experience.
This, like our Mormon Channel app, was developed in cooperation with community developers. Thanks all!!
Download it and try it out. And rate it!! 
April 9th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 1 Comment »
Google has changed its search algorithm. Site speed will now play a part in how your web sites rank.
March 19th, 2010 | By Joel Dehlin | 8 Comments »
The first LDS Developers Conference is to be held on April 1-2. You’ll meet members of the team, see a sneak preview of the new web sites which will be coming this Summer, and get hands-on training in how to design, write and test code for those web sites and for our new mobile device offereings.
If you’re interested in helping with our community efforts and you can get here, then get here!
More information on our web site.
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