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I do want one, and I am in the target market, but as a colleague of mine pointed out, it’s not actually a Mac, it’s still the iPhone OS, so it retains the control Apple want.

In fact if I think about it too hard I don’t want one. That succinct marketing message stating that over 75 million people know how to use iPad as they are existing iPhone users is just a marketeers dream. And you still have to use Apple software via the app store. Let’s look forward to the first hacked OS!

Anyway the point of writing is not to iSlate the iPad but to comment on another momentous change in the world of digital that I live and love.

As the fever grew last night, as per any global event, the world turned to the use of live tech to share their passions. Mobile phones lit up with feverish activity, and the masses crowded around their Techcrunch and CNN live feeds on their home and work PC’s. Compelled to share we started writing.

My first reaction was to set up Tweetdeck to monitor Twitter results for ipad. These came in thick and fast at about 2000 new tweets every 30 seconds (in fact I left it on over night and there were a further 380,000 since I last check late last night!). As it was 6 0′clock in the UK my friends feed became unusually quiet – people travelling home, or just generally glued to Steve Jobbs presentation.

Furious content creation then began. Endless blog posts, imagery, snippets, Stumbles, bitlets were pumped out into the ether. Under  the pressure I wish I had counted how many websites were falling over under the weight of the stampede for information as I followed link after link.

But then I did something irrational, something I haven’t done for a while during a live event – I Google’d! And lo and behold what a treasure trove of useful results! Before my eyes were images, videos, news results, and feed after feed of fresh live content from journalists, writers, fans and friends.

This is the moment that Google foresaw ever since the meteoric growth of Twitter and Facebook, particularly in terms of market share around live events. It’s no wonder they paid so much to trawl some of this attention back, and I liked it. The Google experience always brings authority, and as is ever the case with online, the more you read the more balanced your opinions become.

The integration of live search really brought this home for me last night and it serves as a milestone in Google’s lifeline.

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Get it while is still on iPlayer  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pws59#segments – a great show which I will find the time to review (soon)

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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you may have occasion to bring your work home with you, or require frequent access to your to-do lists, notes and documents on the go.

Choosing primarily online tools for your productivity workflow is a great way to address the issue of source agnostic accessibility. It’s also a convenient method to ensure you have a backup of your important day-to-day items and files in case a particular computer or device fails. One other not insignificant factor in selecting cloud-based tools to keep you and your business on track is cost: the online equivalents of once desktop-bound applications are often much cheaper in both raw cost and maintenance cost, as tool upgrades usually happen behind the scenes and don’t require an in-house IT staff to keep up and running.

With the tools on this list, you should be able to check in on your current workflow stack regardless of which machine you happen to be in front of, what operating system it uses, and what browser it’s running. Plus, if you have a smartphone as your trusty mobile companion, chances are you’ll be able to access your tools from there as well. Check out our previous guide to mobile productivity tools as a logical companion to this piece, and consider your phone platform and setup and how well it may integrate with particular tools as you build out your productivity arsenal.

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One of the favorite and often-mentioned entrants in the to-do list category among productivity geeks is Remember the Milk. Featuring a robust reminder system via your choices of SMS, IM, or email, offline task management, integration with Google Calendar, and tight integration with several mobile pl…

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Here is the most down to earth, everyday, useful application of Augmented Reality (AR) I have seen to date. It’s not a quatum leap to see any type of instruction manual or DIY book using this kind of system. Yes right now the cost of the technology is prohibitive, but the usefulness outweighs the complexity – a solution has to be found.

I’d heard of this but never seen the video before. It’s the marines using AR to speed up repair time on military hardware in the field. They wear goggles that give them a head up display that overlays various arrows and pointers to inform each step. It’s awesome. Take a look.

(Thanks to @killer_bunnie for the find). Source article here.

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