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Learning from past Web Office mistakes

One of the outcomes of my recent round-up of Web Office products was a plethora of email from vendors who are building them. Thanks for all those emails and I apologize if I haven't replied (there were a lot!), but I will look at all the products. Dave...

Tags: Web, Web Office, Anil

Blog posts 2006-03-06

Additional Resources

Sun cuts 5,000 to 6,000 jobs

Sun said Friday that it will lay off 15 percent to 18 percent of its workforce--or 5,000 to 6,000 people--as it restructures amid weak demand, a series of poor quarters and a business model that rallies around open source software. Add it up and Sun is looking...

Tags: Job, Sun Microsystems Inc., Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Mobile 2.0 conference debuting in Europe on July 4th

Rudy De Waele sent me a message a couple of days ago announcing that the is expanding to Europe and the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference is coming to Barcelona, Spain on July 4th this year. This is a one day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile...

Tags: Mobile, Conference, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-27

An April Fool's Day Tour de Farce

It's April Fool's Day and the technology industry is going nuts trying to top the next farce. It's pretty bad when you don't trust information from legit sources and you almost think one of your favorite Wall Street prognosticators has changed his bear stripes. Here's the tour of...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Facebook, April Fool, Virgle, Arrington, Channel Management, Branding, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Six Apart adds activity streams to its blog platform

In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate, control, and share their...

Tags: Facebook, Newsfeed, Google OpenSocial, Blog, Six Apart Ltd., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Is India adapting to the Night Shift?

Is India adapting to the Night Shift?Give 'em all Prozac and ...tell them to get used to the health issues. It comes with the American or Indian in this case Dream. Our life style here in America can kill the strongest of men... or women.Issue ain easyI work...

Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, HEALTHCARE, Associated Press, Indian IT industry, attrition rate, Night Shift, BPO, odd hour

Discussion threads 2007-12-28

Programming with molecules

It has been tried before, but researchers are now fully realizing the potential of DNA and want to create a programmable way of combining computers with chemistry. As said one the leading researchers at CalTech, 'Programming chemical systems needs to be thought about. The meeting of computer science and chemistry...

Tags: Life, DNA, Scientist, Chemistry, Computing, Programming, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-21

Facebook's dilemma: To be OpenSocial or not to be

Facebook is now the lone wolf, the only major social network not to partake of Google's OpenSocial APIs. This is understandable. A radical change of course is not easy to contemplate. Facebook is the social networking leader, not in raw numbers but in momentum, demographic goodness and potential. The company...

Tags: Facebook, Google OpenSocial, API, MySpace, Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Google scary now? Personal Health Records, sponsored by Google, next

“Good and scary,” so headlined Anil Dash of the new Google “Web History” user tracking tool. “Google’s privacy nightmare just starting,” so declared Om Malik, noting a Washington Post story of a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission FTC seeking an injunction against the announced Google purchase of...

Tags: Media, Marketing, Government, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Google, Culture, AdWords, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Beware: Google cloud platform exposed

Google CEO Eric Schmidt proudly announced his Q1 2007 stellar earnings report to Wall Street yesterday, underscoring how Google is growing its platform, big time. What is that platform? It is the global, Google cloud. The Googley “cloud computing and advertising go hand-in-hand,” Google-centric, new multi-billion dollar Web-based business...

Tags: Privacy, Legal, Google Software Applications, Google Apps, Google, Enterprise

Blog posts 2007-04-20

When will Google commit?

Google is on a product test roll this week, capping off a whirlwind week with an “experimental” free directory assistance service, GOOG-411.Steve Ballmer recently “told” Google to slow down, and so did I!Google will not be deterred in its never ending quest to organize ALL the world’s information, however. A...

Tags: Marketing, Local, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Yahoo Pipes becomes belle of the RSS ball

Who knew that an RSS remixer would become so popular on its first day that site would be down due to a crush of visitors? Such is the case with Yahoo Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/), which has sparked a lot of buzz today and appears to be down at...

Tags: General, Web Technology, Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Pipes

Blog posts 2007-02-08

WordPress rant, additional web rants, and an exclusive!

Along with a few friends, I run a local networking organization. We have a blog, and it fell unto me to give that blog a facelift. So after doing some Photoshop/Illustrator work to make a new "theme" for the blog, I went into WordPress to do just a few tiny...

Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Tech, Design, Google, Web Browsers, Collaboration, Web as Platform, Apple, WordPress, web app, Web browser, Web

Blog posts 2007-02-06

SixApart: Office 2007 can take blogs to business

Office 2007, meet Movable Type Enterprise. According to SixApart vice president Anil Dash business is about to take to blogging as Vista, Moveable Type and Office 2007 interconnect. Dash writes in his SixApart blog: We’re not gonna be...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Office 2.0, Microsoft, Blogging, Microsoft Office, blog, Microsoft Office 2007, Movable Type

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Disk drive price change

In June of 1992 I paid $3,100 Canabucks for a 330MB SCSI disk for a Sun workstation. In April of 1999 I paid $2,424 for a 9GB UltraSCSI disk for an HP C360. Right now I'm looking at $389 for each of two 143Gb disks for another Sun workstation. Ignoring...

Tags: disk

Blog posts 2006-11-02

Google to Microsoft: Wolf in sheep's clothing?

Google has a knack for launching hoped for category killer applications directly aimed at usurping existing market leaders’ positions with its reassuring “we’re not a competitive threat, we complement each other” mantra.Matt Glotzbach, head of enterprise products at Google, on Google Apps for Your Domain vs. Microsoft Office:The right way...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-08-29

Blogswarm on Google Apps for Your Domain

Last night's relatively big scoop, given to a few media outlets, was Google throwing together a bunch of its communications applications and making them available as a suite of services for companies and organizations. Subsequently, Google will add Spreadsheets, Writely and other applications to fill out the suite and offer...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-28

Where are the profits in the long tail?

Nicholas Carr over at his blog Rough Type points to a discussion about Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory: In his column in the Wall Street Journal today, Lee Gomes tries to debunk Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory, and on his Long Tail blog today, Anderson tries to debunk Gomes's debunking....

Tags: long tail, tail, Mr Anderson, sales

Blog posts 2006-07-26

Big roll of the dice with Office 2007

I just got into Boston after an amazing four days at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and a truly traumatic travel day. Catching up on my RSS feeds, I came across a post by Anil Dash that sums up my feelings about the new version of Microsoft Office perfectly. Like Anil,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Web 2.0 reality check: Incompatibility

In my previous post about ThinkFree, a Web Office product, a couple of ZDNet commenters pointed out that one problem with ThinkFree is that it requires a Java download. Wrote mrichardson under the heading Strike one...: "Thought that I would explore the "brave new world" of web...

Tags: Web

Blog posts 2006-05-03