Google & Lotus-Notes: calendar-item characteristics & differences

This is situation when an organisation has these 2 email systems running.

	Google Calendar	Lotus-Notes calendar
Showing on calendar	Item is always posted to GCal as '?' mark (looked similar to 'Maybe' response).  We respond 'No' or choose 'Remove' to remove it from GCal.	Item only arrives Inbox and optionally displayed in 'New Notices' pane.  We respond 'accept' or 'add' to get it displayed on calendar.
Colouring	GCal supports multiple calendars and colouring is assigned to each calendar.	LN can only see calendars of others, but neither see altogether simultaneously nor can create multiple calendars in addition to own one.  Colouring is assigned to calendar types (meeting, appointment, anniversary, reminder, to-do)
Participant list	Has option to add guest by any participant.	Has To/CC/BCC classification.
Calendar-item instance between mail & calendar systems	Separate: Deleting the instance in GMail does not effect one in GCal and vice versa.  However, we can respond in either GMail or GCal.	Same: calendar is another view the mail database so that we see same-single instance.  We do not delete it from inbox but manually remove it away (possibly to other folder), or set option (in Tools |Preferences) to remove meeting invitations from inbox after responded.
Item's content	See body of LN-cal item contains .ics attachment (as common as normal Internet email).	See body of GCal item as: "View your event at http://www.google.com/calendar/..."

Also:

• Sender & participants name formatting:  In same system, it can look up its "address book" so that we'll see as full-name written (ex., "John Smith").  Whereas each side will see ones from each other system as Internet-email format (ex., john.smith@company.com).
• Response to GCal invitation via LN can have error such as nonexistent parent document, (field) incorrect data type for operator or @Function.

Tweeting shorthands

As Twitter keeps message posting limited to 140-character long, sometimes it would be better using certain symbols in character set instead of multiple/repeated characters to save message length.

Try this	To/For
… — ‼	Instead of repeating those characters.
« »	Double less/greater signs, or denote arrows: <- ->
‖	"RT @... original message. ‖ your additional comment"  (idea from '// comment' in C++)
≠ ≤ ≥ ±	<>, <=, >=, +/-
⅛ ¼ ⅜ ½ ⅝ ¾ ⅞	Instead of x/y
© ® ™	Instead of (C), (R), TM
α β	Instead of 'alpha', 'beta'

Also these symbols are nice for use:

• ≈ ≡ × ÷
• ∞ ∫ ∑ √ ∂ ∆
• ¬(not) °(degree) ²(square) ³(cube)
  

Twitter visibility

1. When we follow an account, we see followee's own updates not others that s/he follows, unless we already follow ones of them mutually.
2. People will only see replies in their home time line if they are following both the sender and recipient of the update. People with protected accounts cannot send replies to people who aren't following them, and mentions won't be seen by non-followers either. [from: "What are @replies and mentions?"]

Lists
As simply stated in Lists' privacy setting:

• Public — Anyone can subscribe to this list.
• Private — Only you can access this list.

We see lists when they are set public, and cannot see/access private lists (even we specify exact URL).  This rule is not matter the lists' owner is normal(public) or protected account.

What connection can we make with other people? Given that they are: »	Normal/public account	Protected account
Follow them	Yes	To request
Keep them in list	Yes	Available when we've already followed
Follow (subscribe) their lists	Public lists only	Public lists only (needn't request)
See their private lists	No	No

Whom do we see inside a list? Given that they (not list owner) are: »	Normal/public account	Protected account
List is public	Visible	Visible if we've also followed them
List is private	List is inaccessible	List is inaccessible

Also notice that we may put people (of normal/public account) into our list(s) without following them: i.e., they are not shown up in our main-stream time line.


Further reading

• Twitter blog: "Soon to Launch: Lists" (Sep.30'09). "There's a List for That" (Oct.30'09).
• Josh Catone "HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists"; Mashable (Nov.02'09)
• Mashable: "Twitter Lists, Resources & How-Tos"

Nokia-phone shortcuts

	Power p: Select profiles h: Power on/off
Left-selection h: Message reader	Navi-center	Right-selection h:Voice commands
Call	Navi-scroll	End p/h: Alternative profiles/power switch
Menu h: List/choose running applications wb: View bookmarks	Edit(pencil)	Clear
1	2	3
4	5	6
7	8 wb: Show/hide page overview	9 wb: Type in web address
* Show/select special character. Calendar: Change/rotate views.	0 h: Web browser 3p: Insert new-line.	# Change text language/prediction mode Alternative Edit key. Calendar: Go to today.

p = press and release, optional number 2 or 3 means double and tripple pressing.
h = press and hold
wb = web browser

Yammer links

i.e., those appended to "https://www.yammer.com/..."

Link to	Do this	i.e., (syntax)
Single message	Check from its time-stamp	.../messages/{message#}
Message thread	Replace "messages" of message link with "threads".	.../threads/{message#}
Thread with initial-message highlighted		.../threads/{message#}?message_id={message#}
Thread with reply-message highlighted	Click the reply's time-stamp to get its own page, then check the link from "in reply to" clause.	.../threads/{message#}?message_id={reply-message#}&replied_to_id={message#}

Also:

• Popular tags = https://www.yammer.com/tags/popular