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Microsoft announces Live Labs - and a call to action: Microsoft announces Live Labs - and a call to actionInternet as mirror of the physical worldSee "Mirror Worlds", David Gelernter (Oxford U. Press 1992). Published 14 years ago (!), Gelernter in "Mirror Worlds" predicted most of what you are describing, and did so in detail. Well worth reading.Oh...; Tags: Web browsers, CSS, MSN, Mozilla Firefox, David Gelernter, Live Labs, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-01-26

News to know: AOL; Palm; SAP; Facebook; Oprah: Here are todayâ€™s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.Â For continuous updates see BNETâ€™s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake Andrew Nusca: Would...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Palm Inc., Oprah Winfrey, SAP AG, Matthew Miller, Flu, Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; Blog posts 2009-04-30
Visions of cloud computing and Web 2.0, circa 1990s: the world catches up to Yale's David Gelernter: The question is not 'What can software engineers build?' but 'What do users need?' by Joe McKendrick; Tags: Software, Web, Yale University, Vision, Web 2.0, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Internet, Management, Hardware, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2009-04-29
Why haven't GUIs progressed?: My wife asked a variant on this question the other day, particularly with respect to shortcuts that let you bypass the user friendly stuff once you outgrow it. Sadly I haven't much of a clue here. It seems clear that the Apple GUI has consistently been the most effective...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, GUI, Apple Computer Inc., SunView, Lifestream, desktop; Blog posts 2006-05-31