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Web Office Widgets

Now that office software is becoming a big part of the Web landscape, were starting to see widgets (i.e. mini web apps) appear that have office functionality. The personalized start page Pageflakes has just introduced a couple of new office "flakes", which is their term for widgets. The new ones...

Tags: RSS, Pageflakes, Intranet, Web, start page, dashboard

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Review of Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad

At the Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad, 13 web startups have 5 minutes each to present their wares. Here are some quick impressionistic views of how it went.... In the chair is a music-based video game, where people can interact with music - e.g. generate your own content and play...

Tags: tool, Web 2.0, News, Tech, Social Media, web2con, Internet Companies, Products, Reviews, Social Software, Two-Way Web, Web as Platform, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Behind the scenes: Google played hardball in YouTube deal

Mark Cuban has posted a fascinating (possibly not 100% accurate) glimpse into the behind-the-scenes deal-making between Google and YouTube. It was written by "an experienced veteran in the digital media business" who had at least some second-hand insider knowledge of the deal. Frankly when I read it reaffirmed just how...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Google Inc., YouTube

Blog posts 2006-10-31

Web 2.0 Security Scares

For web-based businesses like Google and MySpace, AJAX flings open the door to new malware propagation methods few things are more scary than malicious attacks on the code of your websites or apps. And in this web 2.0 era, new threats have emerged that specifically target Ajax websites.Web security firm...

Tags: AJAX, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-10-19

YouTube may be the fastest growing website ever!

Jay Meattle of the web statistics firm compete has done an interesting analysis of the growth rates of MySpace vs YouTube. He concludes that YouTubes rate of growth exceeds that of MySpace - i.e. essentially it is more viral!.It took YouTube 16 months to reach 20 million users, but it...

Tags: YouTube Inc., MySpace, YouTube, YouTubes

Blog posts 2006-10-19

YouTube Wannabes: online video market post GooTube

Now that YouTube has been acquired for $1.65B by the hottest technology company on the planet, inevitably it will give rise to a whole new generation of online video products. To paraphrase the Eminem song Without Me: "Hey, theres a concept that works! 20 million other YouTubes emerge..." In this...

Tags: online video, video

Blog posts 2006-10-15

Google Docs & Spreadsheets: More pieces of Google Office

The new combined Writely and Google Spreadsheets interface has just gone live, under the name Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The Writely.com site now re-directs to http://docs.google.com and the Writely brand has been replaced by the usual no-frills Google brand. The homepage allows you to tag and sort your files. There...

Tags: Google Docs, Google Inc., spreadsheet

Blog posts 2006-10-10

ZohoX: New Web Office Suite (post includes Image Gallery)

Zoho will release a new version of its Zoho Virtual Office aka ZohoX at tomorrow’s Office 2.0 conference. Ive compiled an image gallery showing all the products that will make up the suite.Techcrunch reported today about ZohoX:"Virtual Office, or ZohoX, will integrate most of the 10+ Zoho services already available...

Tags: Zoho Virtual Office, ZohoX

Blog posts 2006-10-10

GoogTube - MTV for the Web generation

Well turns out the speculation, which was first reported on Techcrunch on Friday, was true. Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65 Billion in stock.Out of all the reports, the thing that most strikes me is how much Google believes video is the future of the Internet. As Paul Kedrosky put...

Tags: Google Inc., online video, video, YouTube, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-09

IE7 set for release in just a few weeks

The IE Blog announced tonight that IE7 will be released by end of this month - and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it’s available for download. The IE Blog states: "Compatibility with sites, extensions and applications has been a very...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

Blog posts 2006-10-06

10 Essential Google Gadgets

The big news today was Google making available gadgets aka widgets for website owners to add to their webpages. I took a look through the 1220 gadgets on offer in Googles gallery and chose my 10 favorites. I chose gadgets that I thought would be useful, or had potential. I...

Tags: Flickr, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-04

Web 2.0 Clones - where is all the innovation?

Cloning has been one of the biggest themes to come out of my Read/WriteWeb series on international web markets. Ive noticed that every country has its set of web 2.0 clones - bookmarking sites that look like delicious, photo sharing sites like Flickr, social networks like MySpace, community news sites...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Why Google apps will stay inside the browser

Ryan Stewart makes the case for Google to develop more RIAs rich internet apps. He says: "If Google wants to deliver applications to main stream users, they need to adopt a Rich Internet Application strategy. They need to use their talent and...

Tags: Web, Web browser, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Microsoft to put Works Suite onto Web

In the clearest sign yet that the big guns are preparing to step up the battle for Web Office, Microsoft has said it is considering releasing a version of Microsoft Works the poor cousin of Microsoft Office as a web suite. The desktop version of Works retails for $50 and...

Tags: Web, Works, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-22

Facebook in talks to sell to Yahoo for up to $1Billion

The WSJ is reporting that US Social Networking site Facebook is in serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo, for an amount that may be as high as $1 billion. According to the WSJ, this is a return to the acquisition talks which Facebook has held over the past year...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Wall Street Journal

Blog posts 2006-09-21

Web Office will be much different than Microsoft Office

There's been a lot of talk about the pros and cons of a web-based office lately, prompted by Nick Carr's excellent post entitled Office generations. In it he suggested the following timeline for office software: Office 1.0 (1980s): a set of discrete and often incompatible ...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Office

Blog posts 2006-09-17

Yahoo Mail Beta released - new Ajax features

Today Yahoo is releasing the new Ajax-powered version of Yahoo Mail to all users in the US and across 18 international markets. I spoke to Ethan Diamond, director of product management for the new Yahoo! Mail, to talk about the product. Ethan was previously the founder of Oddpost, a pioneer...

Tags: e-mail, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-14

Salesforce.com previews Analytics and Dashboard Mash-Ups

Today Salesforce.com announced additional new customization features for their upcoming "Winter '07" version of salesforce.com. What's interesting about this is that it lets users mashup data and bring it all together on a customized dashboard. So far, mashups in the Web world have mostly been based on Maps (Google and...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., mashup

Blog posts 2006-09-12

Opera: The Little Browser That Could

In this second part of my interview with Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie (part 1 is here), we discuss the impressive feature set of the Opera browser. Despite having a market share of only 0.64%, according to the latest figures from Net Applications, Opera has a loyal user base and...

Tags: Hakon, Opera Software ASA, Richard MacManus, Web browser

Blog posts 2006-09-10

Google Office: a close-up look

In the accompanying Image Gallery, I've gone through 7 products that may become part of a future Google Web Office. Right now, Google doesn't have a full web-based office suite on the market - but this year they've gradually been compiling Web Office parts. For example if you click on...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-09-06