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- beejive: multi-service IM for the iPhone
- BeeJive has just released an alpha of JiveTalk for iPhone – a web-based mutli-network IM client that allows you to chat on AIM, GTalk/Jabber, MSN, and Yahoo simultaneously. It works much better than Meebo and uses an iChat style bubble display. I tested connections on AIM, GTalk, and MSN and...
- Tags: Web Apps, Mobility, iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Zoho updates Notebook
- Zoho just announced a few key updates to their Notebook application. The company has been busy this last week with the release of a Zoho FaceBook application that provides access to documents created with Zoho Writer, Sheet, and Show and the release of iZoho which allows display (but not editing...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Google buys GrandCentral - wow!
- I did not see this one coming but it makes a lot of sense. Google purchased GrandCentral, a very useful online service that provides a unified "inbox" for all of your phone numbers. I first encountered GrandCentral at DEMOFall last year and have been tracking the enhancements and improvements in...
- Tags: Google, Mobility, Uncategorized, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Google calendar updates
- Google has recently added a couple of very nice new features to the Google Calendar application. Since the beginning of the year, I've been using Google Calendar as the "glue" that binds all of my devices witht he assistance of some helpful utilities including Spanning Sync for Mac OS X...
- Tags: Web Apps, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Zoho Meeting now in public beta
- Zoho has just announced that Meeting, their web conferencing and desktop sharing tool, has been opened for public beta testing. The service, which has been in private beta for some time, provides the following features and capabilities: Meetings allows you to share your desktop with multiple attendees. Attendees can attend the meeting...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Is Safari a honeypot for the iPhone?
- I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. I came across the interesting notion that Apple chose to release the Safari for Windows beta to have the hacker community expose and document holes in the browser in advance of the iPhone release at the end of...
- Tags: Mac OS X, Mobility, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-06-16
- Zoho launches Creator 2.0
- Zoho announced today that a new, improved version of Creator, their database application builder, has been released. If you've ever struggled with "simple" tools like FileMaker Pro or Microsoft Access you know that constructing an application that draws on one or more database files can get very complex very quickly.Creator...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Big day for browser releases
- While the browser market is still essentially a two-horse race, that is not stopping other contenders from trying to break into the game. Netscape has just released version 9.0 (beta 1) of their Navigator browser based on core Mozilla code which has a number of very interesting ideas in play,...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Software, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Is Google the black hole at the center of the net?
- Another day, another announcement about Google pulling the net into its gravity well. Salesforce.com and Google have announced an integration that tightly couple AdWords campaign management into the popular CRM/SFA tool. It's a natural fit and I'm trying not to feel all creepy about this but...Phil Wainewright has a solid...
- Tags: Web Apps, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- ThinkFree and EditGrid announce online spreadsheet partnership
- Why are these two men smiling? Because a partnership that increases the value of both parties is always cause for celebration.ThinkFree has been on a roll this year with big presence at both ETech where CEO TJ Kang also presented a new document sharing community and Web 2.0 Expo. I've...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Work virtually from anywhere
- Leo Babauta at Web Worker Daily has posted a very thorough guide to working virtually that focuses primarily on tools but also includes some excellent workflow recommendations. It's a bit Google-centric but he does provide a number of alternative choices for most of the key ingredients for a cloud-based workspace.What...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, OpenOffice, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- Google Gears - the game has changed
- Wow!I'm not often left feeling completely astonished these days. I like to think I'm pretty on top of where things are going. But I just got completely blindsided by Google Gears. There's already plenty of first-glance analysis to help you grasp the magnitude of what they've done. I recommend you...
- Tags: Google, Mobility, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- NYC on 2 Nokias a day
- A couple of weeks ago, I took the family on a trip to New York City. We got a pretty good deal on travel in the form of a package deal from Hotwired.com that included four round-trip tickets and two hotel rooms for about $600 per person for a four-night,...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mobility, Productivity, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-26
- Gmail now renders PPT
- Gmail is now rendering PowerPoint slide decks as a playable slide show. I've found a few files it's choked on (seems to be graphic density but that's very unscientific data so YMMV). It's very fast and quite useful when it works. I get a lot of PPT files and this...
- Tags: Google, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Zoho Notebook now in Public Beta
- At the end of January, I wrote about Zoho Notebook, the latest addition to the company's stable of web-based applications. At the time, I was very impressed with the concept and initial execution and today, Zoho has made Notebook publicly available as a beta. If you use a product like...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Twitter ubiquity - more ways to microblog
- Two new ways to Twitter popped up in my RSS feeds this morning. First, Twitter has launched a new mobile UI that loads very quickly on both the Nokia N95 and the Treo 700p in my tests. Much better IMO than using SMS to check in with my friends list...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Mobility
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- A collection of Mac tidbits
- Yesterday was a good day if youre a Mac user. Here are three nice things I came across while catching up on RSS feeds last night:Flickr has released a new Universal Binary of the Flickr Uploadr tool for the Mac (can I buy a vowel please?). According the the download...
- Tags: Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Google, Gadgetry, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Instant e-mail message form: Contactify
- I just came across Contactify via Digital Inspiration. This is a very nice solution if you want to add a way for people reading your blog to be able to contact you without a lot of heavy lifting. Its also a great way to add a "contact me" link...
- Tags: Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Blogs, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-04-21
- Web 2.0 Expo notes for Monday
- Its been a pretty action-packed day here at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco between a full slate of sessions and a number of briefings with companies who are announcing interesting new or improved products and services here at the event. One of the trends I see is that there...
- Tags: Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- LeapTag - a new way to find online content
- Ive been test driving LeapTag, a new browser add-on for finding content related to topics of interest to you that combines a number of unique ideas Ive not seen in similar tools. LeapTag, as the name implies, uses tags you define to conduct searches for related content. To help...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Utilities and Add-Ins, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
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