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Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Google’s Little Scriptlet of Big Ideas « — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:13:07 +0000

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Nearbie Blog » Blog Archive » 5 lines — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:49:52 +0000

[...] The people at Google have come up with a good idea to prolong the life span of all the smart things their employees think of. According to this post at WWD Google encourages its employees to write a five line note and submit it to a searchable database. [...]

By: Mexico501 » Blog Archive » Google’s Little Scriptlet of Big Ideas

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:06:25 +0000

[...] Page Summary: It can be anything from executing a simple task or if they figured out a better way of doing something that is part of their daily work. Google then indexes all these emails and makes them searchable. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. I use it to save code snippets, lengthy command, etc.read more | digg story [...]

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:30:29 +0000

A refinement: you could use a Firefox search extension plugin to add your Google Group ‘knowledge base’ to the search box at the top right of your browser.

Now you don’t have to think about it as a ‘group’ or ‘mailing list’. It’s just a bucket you email knowlege to, and when you want it back, you search.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:26:29 +0000

Replicate this by creating a new Google Group. Google Groups can be invite only and viewable only by members, so can be used group-private info.

There’s no mechanism to limit the emails to 5 lines. However, maybe by just naming the group kb-5lines@… (or similar) rather than kb-snippets@… would be enough to coerce people into doing the right thing.

Oh, and Google Groups have feeds, so you can keep up with the latest in your feed reader or by email. You can categorise messages after the fact too, to facilitate browsing.

I guess there’s a lot of services and technologies you could impement this simple idea, but by using Google Groups you get ‘Google Search’ — it’s like we already have the tool that’s mentioned here.

By: everythang

everythang — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:08:12 +0000

For non-Google employees I can recommend the ScrapBook firefox extension. It can provide similar functionality as Om describes. I use it to save code snippets, lengthy command, etc. A must have!

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:45:48 +0000

Not quite like Code Snippets, but I can see a massive opportunity for the code base by expanding into areas like this..

By: Eliot Landrum

Eliot Landrum — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:13:58 +0000

So, pretty much just like Code Snippets.

By: Rulepark

Rulepark — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:32:57 +0000

Smart little “dictionary”.