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All over the internet, for this holiday season, websites are extolling the great benefits of video chat. You can see and chat with business associates and family. You can transform your world into a virtual studio! Video conferences are the hottest thing since sliced bread.

Let me say a few things about video chat from a woman’s point of view. I would love to see statistics on how many men use video chat compared to women. I’ll bet you ten bucks it is more men than women that utilize this blossoming software.

Any women reading this most surely realize my profound reasons as to why us girls are not totally onboard with video chat. But just for grins, and for the benefit of the men folk, I will discuss here why I am not jumping on the video chat boat.

Business Casual + Video Chat = NO WAY

I usually work from my home office. “Business casual” has a whole different meaning when you work from home. Business casual usually means a break from the ties for men and some companies are even brazen enough to let you wear jeans. Not so when you work from home.

Business casual, for me working at home, means you can usually find me in front of my computer with old sweats or my favorite flannel pants and an old sweatshirt on. I’ve saved enough money to buy half of Google with the money I’ve saved on dry-cleaning. By the way, you will not really find me at home in this outfit because I will not be answering the doorbell.

No Make-up + Video Chat = GO AWAY

Make-up…not happening when I’m home with my dogs. They don’t seem to mind. I’m not putting it on just so I can video chat. I know some of you women out there venture out sans make-up but that is far too frightening a thought for me to even imagine. Might be a little scary for the world too. My before and after pictures are quite amazing, if I say so myself.

Video Chat at the Office

Even when I venture into the office I don’t think I would use it as often as the men there. I can see it now. The video phone rings and first I have to check my lipstick. By the time that task is over I most certainly would have missed the call.

Give me that Old Time Communication

I’ll stick with the regular old phone any day. As a matter of fact, just email or IM would work great for me. I can email in my favorite Cardinal shirt. I can instant message with my hair in a tumbled mess. I cannot picture myself using video chat on any type of regular basis.

Video chat has been around for quite some time now. Many new softwares will be implemented during the holiday season. They truly are an amazing creation by the techy gurus. But I bet they weren’t women!

Microsoft Pivot application is an innovative method of searching using a series of linked data. Based on existing web technologies it filters patterns and combines large groups of similar items on the Internet. This new method allows interaction with a large amount of data.

A fellow blogger “readwriteweb” has posted some interesting information. Here’s a little teaser:

In short, datasets are organized as collections. Results can be as granular or as big-picture as the user desires, and correlations and patterns are easy to see and examine through powerful but simple visualizations. Imagine browsing through thumbnails representing Kiva loans, then sorting the loans by the different types of businesses they helped established. Or, on a nerdier note, think about riffling through decks of Magic: The Gathering cards, zooming in for larger-than-life detail of the card’s artwork and then zooming out to see how each was related or linked to others in the set.readwriteweb, ReadWriteWeb, Nov 2009

For more information read the whole article.

Open IDs are becoming more popular for logging in to websites because they allow user to log on to a multitude of services with the same digital identity. It uses a unique URL and is authenticated by the Open ID provider that the user has chosen.

Following is an excerpt from an interesting article about Open IDs:

Open is at the core of many Yahoo! initiatives and products. Over the past two years Yahoo! has been hard at work to change how we develop products and interact with our developer community. In addition to being avid supporters of Open Source, we participated and adopted community-based specifications such as OpenID and OAuth, and were a founding member of the OpenSocial and OpenID Foundations. As you can see, we love Open.freshelectrons, Making Open Easier (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog), Nov 2009

For more information read the complete article. Open IDs could be the wave of the future so it’s time to bone up on the details.

The 2010 beta version of Microsoft Office is available now. Of course it is! I finally, a couple months ago, installed the latest version and now they are coming out with a new one. Blogs are buzzing about it and much is being written for content based SEO.

The first public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available as a free download on microsoft.com/office. And other then Office, you can also download Visio 2010 beta and Project 2010 beta for your Windows computer.labnol, Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Now Available for Download, Nov 2009

Check out their whole article for more information.

Microsoft has listed the top ten benefits of Microsoft Office 2010. Here are their top three:

Express your ideas more visually

Office 2010 opens up a world of design options to help you give life to your ideas. The new and improved picture formatting tools such as color saturation and artistic effects let you transform your document visuals into a work of art. Combined with a wide range of new pre-built Office themes and SmartArt® graphic layouts, Office 2010 gives you more ways to make your ideas stick.

 

Accomplish more when working together

Brainstorm ideas, provide better version control, and meet deadlines faster when you work in groups. The co-authoring experience for Microsoft® Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft® Excel Web App and Microsoft OneNote shared notebooks let you work on a file with several people at once – even from different locations.

 

Enjoy the familiar Office experience from more locations and more devices

With Office 2010, you can get things done more easily, from more locations and more devices. Using a smartphone or virtually any computer with an Internet connection, you can work when and where you want to work.

They are offering a free download. I am trying it now and will update soon with my thoughts and review.

Surfing the internet today brought me to this website with some nice tools:

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.Aibek, Cool Websites and Tools [November 18], Nov 2009

Read the whole article for more information.