For many of us, “meeting hell&# is a perennial and ongoing problem, sapping both productivity and morale from our work days. What would Google do? Google’s  Marissa Mayer was recently  interviewed by Business Week. Mayer’s six key principles for running productive meetings are: More on Google. MORE >>

Although Google+ is still only a few months old, there seem to be plenty of people willing to write it off as doomed, or close to it. Is Google+ fatally flawed? As he puts it: Although Google seems determined to keep adding new features, I suspect there’s little it can do to prevent Google+ from becoming a ghost town. MORE >>

Last week, Google rolled out a beta of its highly-anticipated new social networking platform, Google+. But having played with Google+ over the last few days, I think that it may find a home in a somewhat unexpected market: the workplace. Hangouts, Google+’s killer app for remote teams. MORE >>

Google has updated Contacts. Long-time readers of WebWorkerDaily will know that I’m a big fan of web applications that provide keyboard shortcuts (I’ve previously written about the productivity-boosting keyboard shortcuts in Gmail and Google Tasks ) so it’s great to see them in Contacts, too. z : Undo. MORE >>

How-To productivity superstar qr codesA couple of weeks ago, Charles brought up the subject of QR codes , an increasingly popular topic for remote workers and general purpose mobile Internet users alike. That got me thinking about how I use QR codes, and how I might be able to use them to greater effect in a collaborative working environment. MORE >>