tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54624882012-01-30T16:32:54.330-08:00The battle for the future of the Open Web is taking place as a new document model merges into a platform for highly graphical, interactive and information rich applications. Open source communities vie with dominant vendors Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Nokia and Google to stake out their claims as open source innovations collide with standards consortia and proprietary alternatives.Gary Edwardshttps://profiles.google.com/112941284721882357754noreply@blogger.comBlogger1451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462488.post-3290726876661842742012-01-30T16:32:00.001-08:002012-01-30T16:32:54.518-08:00

MetacrapTags: metadataPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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Common Crawl Founder Gil Elbaz Speaks About New Relationship With Amazon, Semantic Web Projects Using Its Corpus, And Why Open Web Crawls Matter To Developing Big Data Expertise - semanticweb.comTags: search, web crawling, Common CrawlFirst 'Super Wi-Fi' network goes live in North CarolinaTags: wifi, wireless networking, super wifi, white spaces spectrumPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web

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HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsiblyHTML5 app development resource and advice site.  Same people who did the excellent CSS3 Please site.Tags: HTML5, tutorial, CSS3 - By Gary EdwardsPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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» Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!Tags: ACTA, Obama, OpenWeb, SOPA, constitutional law, lawPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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Google's Chrome Browser Sprouts Programming Kit of the Future "Node.js" | Wired Enterprise | Wired.comGood article describing Node.js.  The Node.js Summitt is taking place in San Francisco on Jan 24th - 25th.  http://goo.gl/AhZTD I'm wondering if anyone has used Node.js to create real time Cloud ready compound documents?  Replacing MSOffice OLE-ODBC-ActiveX heavy productivity documents, forms

Gary Edwardshttps://profiles.google.com/112941284721882357754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462488.post-75066930301878208282012-01-23T16:32:00.001-08:002012-01-23T16:32:39.322-08:00

Asterisk fax - voip-info.org Ever wonder why it's so difficult to send a document over the Internet, to a land line Fax machine?  Or how about sending a document through Google Voice to a land line Fax machine?   Since our congress critters still rely on snail mail and land line Fax machines, i'm very interested in improving my Fax productivity.  This Web page has the best answers to my

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IBM, Cisco, Red Hat, SAP Join Forces at OASIS To Combat Amazon's Cloud SuccessGood article but leaves out any mention of WebKit and incredible impact that open source project has had on HTML5 and the future of the Web.  I left a lengthy comment explaining this.  Also referenced ODF, OASIS and Corporate support of standards and OSS projects.Tags: ge, ODF, OASIS, TOSCO, Cloud-Computing,

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Making Love to WebKit — Acko.netSteven Witten pushes the envelope using CSS 3D instead of WebGL.  He explains why, arguing parralax, GPUs and his own brand of technofetishism.  Great stuff.  Awesome must read adventure in the future of the Web.Tags: Steven-Witten, Acko.net, CSS-3D, WebGL, Parralax, WebKit - By Gary EdwardsPushing the 3D Boundaries in WebKit with CSS 3D and Three.jsGood stuff

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Kindle Format 8 OverviewAmazon releases a new version of the KF8 Format, with greatly improved HTML5-CSS3 capabilities.  Details of the KF8 spec can be found here: http://goo.gl/XY39v A couple of things i'm wondering about here.  One is, the KindleGen conversion tool can convert HTML, XHTML and EPUB to KF8.  Has anyone tried to push a OpenOffice XHTML compound document through this latest KF8

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Could coding be the next mass profession?Interesting theory, but can you really train a Java developer in under 3 months? Great list of training services provided in this blog.excerpt:They’re handing out Gutenberg printing presses out there: with services like Treehouse (http://goo.gl/MCeTL) and Codecademy (http://goo.gl/kw2j9) (and its expertly-timed year of code), countless university courses

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How Google Apps works when actual people use it | TechRepublicUse case for Google Apps described.  This is very interesting stuff and for sure i need to take a much closer look at how others are using Google Apps.  The integration with MailChimp is very interesting.  Good stuff.  As i read through this, i found myself wondering about using Google Apps Document templates in MSOffice 11???Tags:

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Hover - domain name and email management made simpleMany are joining the boycott against SOPA, and need an alternative to domain host and registrar GoDaddy.com.  Hover.com has been suggested as a good replacement.   The SOPA list of crony capitalist and fascist supporters can be found at http://goo.gl/udScr.Tags: SOPA, GoDaddy, SOPA-Boycott - By Gary EdwardsPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open

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Firefox Add-On Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking | TorrentFreakTags: censorship, OpenWeb, SOPA, DNS BlockingThe pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues to inspire opponents to come up with creative solutions to circumvent it. A new anti-SOPA add-on for Firefox, titled “DeSopa,” is such a counter measure. When installed, users can click a single button to resolve a blocked domain via foreign DNS

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AT&T Ends $39 Billion Bid for T-Mobile - NYTimes.comTags: AT&T, T-Mobile, antitrust, mergers, spectrum, wireless networkingBT sues over hyperlink claim | Networking | ZDNet UKTags: software patents, hyperlink patent, BT, Prodigy, lawsuitThe lawsuit, filed against Prodigy Communications Wednesday in a New York federal court, follows BT's claim in June that it owns the intellectual property rights

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AT&T Ends $39 Billion Bid for T-Mobile - NYTimes.comTags: AT&T, T-Mobile, antitrust, mergers, spectrum, wireless networkingAT&T said on Monday afternoon that it had withdrawn its $39 billion takeover bid for T-Mobile USA, acknowledging that it could not overcome opposition from the Obama administration to creating the nation’s biggest cellphone service provider.The company said in a statement

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World’s first programmable quantum photonic chip | ExtremeTechTags: quantum computing, qubitA team of engineering geniuses from the University of Bristol, England has developed the world’s first re-programmable, multi-purpose quantum photonic computer chip that relies on quantum entanglement to perform calculations.With multiple waveguide channels (made from standard silicon dioxide), and eight

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This 32-Year-Old Entrepreneur Is Bent On Beating One Of Microsoft's Largest BusinessesGood in depth article about Huddle, and their challenge to Microsoft SharePoint.  We met these guys at the 2006 and 2007 Office 2.0 conference in San Fran.  Lengthy conversations about the Windows Productivity Environment and how Microsoft built that platform.  Need to take a closer look at how far they have

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Survey: Companies Adopt the Cloud to Use Tablets, End Up Saving Less - ReadWriteCloudTags: no_tagContrast this with an astounding 92% of Brazil-based firms, and 70% of Australia-based firms, reporting some degree of cost savings. - By Gary EdwardsOnly 10% of respondents claimed cost reduction as the key driver for their cloud adoption campaign. - By Gary Edwards46% of U.S.-based businesses, said

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Changing File Permissions Using cPanel Control PanelTags: file permissions, change permissions, cpanel file manager, linux hosting, linux web hosting, cpanel, whm - By Stanley JonesPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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MediaFuturist: A gift for you: free PDFs of my last 3 books: Music 2.0, The End of Control, Friction is Fiction[I want to start 2011 in a renewed spirit of generosity and sharing, so here are the complete PDFs of my last 3 books, for free; provided under a Creative Commons,non-commercial, share-alike, attribution license (see below). If you still want to buy the dead-tree versions of these books

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Restoring R1Soft CDP3 BackUp | Continuous Data Protection | TutorialTags: eukhost_backup_solutions, r1soft_cdp_3_backup, restore, tutorials, continuous_data_protection, data_security, remote_backup, back_up_services - By Stanley JonesPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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Spooked By Lax U.S. Data Privacy, European Firms Build Their Own Cloud ServicesDraconian post-9/11 U.S. government surveillance statutes will cost U.S. economy as customers shop for cloud services elsewhere.  Tags: cloud computing, data privacy - By Paul MerrellA few recent legal developments affecting U.S. online privacy have rightfully troubled privacy advocates and civil libertarians on

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Tiny USB Stick Brings Android to PCs, TVs | Gadget Lab | Wired.comVaporware, but interesting. More info on the developers' website at .  Basic idea is a computer on a stick that can be plugged into either other computers or into an HDMI flatscreen TV. In the latter scenario, Bluetooth connectivity for keyboard/mouse combo, provided by e.g., a smartphone. The USB connection is v. 2.0, but I'll

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I2Mag-Internet & Design Inspiration MagazineTags: Google, computer, internet, web, design, resources, tutorials, magazinePosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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SendWrite - The easiest way to send a cardIt's Kristallnacht for the Open Internet, free speech, right to assemble, the rule of law, and probable cause.  SendWrie provides an easy to use means of sending digital letters to your congress critters.Tags: SendWrite, Politics, Letters-to-Congress, Open-Web - By Gary EdwardsPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

Gary Edwardshttps://profiles.google.com/112941284721882357754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462488.post-15980193213496669722011-11-15T16:32:00.001-08:002011-11-15T16:32:29.025-08:00

This 28-Year-Old's Startup Is Moving $350 Million And Wants To Completely Kill Credit Cards - Business InsiderPage one of this extrordinary Business Insider interview of Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla.  Lots of highlights on this 3 page article.  An absolute must read.  Dwolla is using the Web and mobile Web connectivity to truly disrupt the massive Credit Card transaction and payment industry.  

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Openbook - Connect and share whether you want to or notExcellent search FaceBook service.  The quote at the top of th epage explains why FaceBook users need to pay close attention to what FaceBook is doing to shred privacy:   "They 'trust me".  Dumb fucks."  ..... Mark Zuckerberg, FaceBookTags: Facebook, FaceBook-privacy - By Gary EdwardsChina Telecom looking to expand into US consumer market,

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HTML5 Triumphant: Silverlight, Flash Both Discontinuing - Technology ReviewTags: flash, silverlight, html5, HTML5 WinsYou could hardly ask for a more ringing endorsement of the future of HTML5 and a Web based on open, common standards than Adobe and Microsoft's near-simultaneous leaks announcing the impending disconinuation of their respective rich media browser plug-ins, Flash and

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Canonical's new partnerships for Ubuntu: A challenge in the enterprise space? | TechRepublicGood article that tries to explain how Canonical is changing direction, and what that will mean for Linux.  The explanation looks at a brief list of Canonical partnerships that the author believes are key to the new direction.  Interesting stuff, but you have to follow the partnership links to grasp the

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Google Notebook Alternatives and Similar Software - AlternativeTo.netExcellent list of NoteBook alternatives to Google Notebook.Tags: notebooks, gNotebook, google-notebook, springpad, evernote - By Gary EdwardsPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS - HotHardwareTags: Mozilla, web OS, B2G, boot to GeckoMozilla has been experimenting with an interesting idea called Boot 2 Gecko. Essentially, B2G (as it’s called) is a mobile operating system based on the Web, as opposed to what the project’s wiki calls “proprietary, single-vendor stacks”. Mozilla has something there--open Web technologies indeed

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Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS - HotHardwareTags: Mozilla, web OS, B2G, boot to GeckoPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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G2One Network | the 360 degree digital studio - Website Development Company, Software Development Company, Search Engine Optimization, BrandingTags: Cloud-Computing, Google, HTML5, Computer, W3C, internet, software, web, development, digital, programmingPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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Sencha Announces Cloud Environment for Mobile Web HTML5 Developers Sencha.io is designed to give Web app developers the ability to synchronize and manage data in the cloud without having to write an excessive amount of code. For messaging, data management, login and deployment, Sencha claims that a few lines of Javascript will allow mobile Web developers to easily integrate these functions to

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This is what Firefox's built-in PDF reader looks like – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.comTags: PDF, Mozilla, Firefox, PDF.js, HTML5Not long ago, Mozilla coders announced that they were starting to build PDF.js, a way to display Acrobat documents in the browser using pure web code. No longer will you have to fight with an external PDF plug-in in Firefox. Huzzah! Development on PDF.js has

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Node.js and the JavaScript Age — Cloud Computing NewsTags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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Google readies Google+ for push into the enterprise - ComputerworldTags: no_tagSilicon Publishing Brings HTML5 to Online Editing - MarketWatchTags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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Get an Email Alert when Somebody Logs in as RootTags: email_alert_on_root_login, ssh_security, server_security, ssh_tutorials, web_hosting - By Stanley JonesPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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Federal Gestapo is a new list i've started at Diigo. After reading through the slam of recent articles about the DOJ shutting down Gibson Guitar and seizing their assets without a shred of due process, i thought it time to start collecting evidence of Federal abuse. Interestingly, the Gibson Guitar story sent me to the Tenth Amendment movement, affectionately known to marxist-socialist-liberal

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Official Gmail Blog: Faces of Gmail: Sarah Price: "Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer Operations In this month’s Faces of Gmail we’re profiling Sarah Price, our history-loving, lindy-hoppin..."

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We The Stupid: Ann Barnhardt on the National Debt Ceiling SCAM! If your angry over the National Debt Ceiling Scam, you're not alone. Ann Barnhardt is fist pounding furious in this post at american Thinker. And with good reason. This is going to be a long battle. One thing i do disagree with her on though is where Obama will borrow the money to fund the $2.4 Trillion debt increase. She's

Gary Edwardshttps://profiles.google.com/112941284721882357754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462488.post-51639928947261938652010-12-30T12:43:00.000-08:002010-12-30T12:43:25.181-08:00

Check out the "Write" document editing and collaboration portion of this iCloud demo video. "Write" is designed to be compatible with MSWord 97-2003. It's simple editing, but the collaboration is very cool. iCloud calls the technique a shared "drop zone". A colleague is invited via instant messaging to share a drop zone. This results in a split screen displaying two iCloud desktops. The

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Droopy: easy file receiving – stackpDroopy: easy file receiving What is it ? Droopy is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.Tags: download, file-exchange, droopy, web-server - By Gary EdwardsPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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1.5 million Facebook accounts offered for saleTags: facebook, cybercrime, socialengeneeringPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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Mobile Data Surpasses Voice Traffic For First Time - HotHardwareTags: mobile usage statistics, mobile devices, mobile webTotal mobile data traffic topped mobile voice traffic in the United States last year, for the first time.In fact, globally, data traffic (that includes SMS text messaging) topped voice traffic on a monthly basis last year and the total traffic across the world exceeded an

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Mobile Data Surpasses Voice Traffic For First Time - HotHardwareTags: mobile usage statistics, mobile devices, mobile webPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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Mobile Cloud Computing: $9.5 Billion by 2014I left a lengthy comment on this very good article. excerpt: According to the latest study from Juniper Research, the market for cloud-based mobile applications will grow 88% from 2009 to 2014. The market was just over $400 million this past year, says Juniper, but by 2014 it will reach $9.5 billion. Driving this growth will be the adoption of the new

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Webspiration: Online Visual Thinking Tool | mywebspiration.comto map out ideas, organize with outlines and collaborate online with teams or colleagues. Webspiration unleashes your creativity, strengthens organizational skills, and transforms your ideas and information into knowledge.Tags: Collaborative software, palestra di lv, mind manager - By Alessandro PPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future

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Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google DocsTags: Google, Google Docs, online file storageWe're happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. With this change, you'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer -- all you need is an Internet

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Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google DocsTags: Google, Google Docs, online file storage - By Paul MerrellPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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Collecta Widget BuilderVery cool!  Enables you to build a custom "real time" search "feed" widget that can then be embedded in blogs, wiki's or other web page documents.Tags: Open-Web, seach-widget, collecta - By Gary EdwardsPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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A Humbled Microsoft Opens Windows to Rivals - TIMEexcerpt: "Once upon a time, Microsoft bestrode the software world like a ruthless cartoon villain, gobbling up rivals and defying pleas for restraint from regulators. But the once-impregnable giant has now been humbled: following an acrimonious 10-year anti-trust battle with European regulators, Microsoft on Wednesday finally agreed to open its

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As Google Backs Away From A Plug-in, Microsoft Rushes Towards One - washingtonpost.comI posted two lengthy comments here.  Can't see the forest for all the trees is the idiom that comes to mind. excerpt: With Silverlight, Microsoft continues to make it clear that they intend to use this web application framework, which they developed, to power much of what they are doing on the web going forward

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Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] | Technology | Los Angeles TimesTags: Google Gears, HTML 5, ChromeAs Google prepares to release its first beta version of Chrome for the Mac (a developer preview has been available for months), the company is letting the sun set on its Gears project. "We are excited that much of the technology in Gears, including offline support and

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Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] | Technology | Los Angeles TimesTags: Google Gears, HTML 5, ChromePosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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Gray Matter : Open XML and the SharePoint Conferenceexcerpt: The trend in Office development is the migration of solutions away from in-application scripted processing toward more data-centric development. Of course this is a primary purpose of Open XML, and it is great to see the amount of activity in this area. We've seen customers scripting Word in a server environment to batch process / print

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Knowledge Genes® - Welcome PageTags: web2.0, collaboration, Knowledge, tools, future Better knowledge, process and control coded WHAT, HOW and WHY Better information in terms of WHAT you need to achieve, HOW and WHYPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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Google Cloudboard - Moving the Point of AssemblyGoogle tests a service called Cloudboard, an online clipboard that should make it easy to copy data between Gmail, Google Docs and other Google services. The service is not publicly available yet, but there are many references to it. lengthy comment from ~ge~Tags: ge, Open-Web, MS-WebStack, Google, unified-productivity - By Gary EdwardsPosted from

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Zoho's Next Big Thing | ge TalkBack on ZDNetMoving the Point of Assembly Kudos to Zoho. Their efforts remind me of the early days of the Microsoft Productivity Environment where core MSOffice editors expanded their reach through DDE, OLE, rich copy/paste, data binding, merged content and data, VBA scripting and the infamous recorder, and a developer API that meshed platform and

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AppleInsider | Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange SupportApple desktop and iPhone support of Microsoft Exchange is not support for Microsoft, as some think.  It's actually a strategy to erode Microsoft's desktop monopoly.  It's also part of a longer term plan to thwart Microsoft's hopes of leveraging their desktop monopoly into a Web Server monopoly. Excerpt: Apple is reducing its dependance

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Using an NAS for Centrally Managing Your MediaThere are several reasons to utilize an NAS: obviously to back up your data, but one new trend is sharing media. For Netbook users, this is essential, since hard drive space is at a minimum. Tags: storage, devices, data, nas, devicePosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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HuffingtonPost CTO to speak on Enterprise MySQLHuffingtonPost CTO to speak on Enterprise MySQL: Heavy-Traffic Management on Aug. 11 at the NYC MySQL Group http://www.meetup.com/mysqlnyc/calendar/10930810/Tags: CTO, MySQL, IT ManagementPosted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.

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IT Management Conference & Expo in NYC Oct.14-16http://www.manageit.me ---The greatest minds in IT in 50+ presentations : top industry-leaders: Creator of MySQL Michael "Monty" Widenius, Internet Celebrity Gary Vaynerchuk, Co-Creator of PHP & Zend CTO Zeev Suraski, Richard Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations & Pioneer of Agile eXtreme Programmi...Tags: IT, Management, Leadership, CIO, CTO, CEO,

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Remix Culture & Fair Use: Best Practices for Online VideoAn interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We’re seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet. Copyright law is all about balance........Tags: remix,

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Google's Real Chrome OS Problem: Who's Going To Buy It? | SiliconValley Insider.... "While i don't see Google or anyone else replacing the MSOffice productivity environment anytime soon, i do see Google challenging Microsoft wherever the Web comes into play. As for the future, that battle for desktop productivity will take place, just not with ChromeOS, Linux, or, the MacOS. What has to happen

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Google's Real Chrome OS Problem: Who's Going To Buy It? (GOOG)While i don't see Google or anyone else replacing the MSOffice productivity environment, i do see Google challenging Microsoft wherever the Web comes into play. And as far as i can see into the future, that pretty much means everywhere. The tricky part will be that re-purposing play. ChromeOS is a blockbuster announcement. Not a

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Feng Office: Putting the “Flow” in WorkflowConrado gets a very good review! Excerpt: Feng Office packs most of the features you should require for most project management duties. In addition to basics like calendars, contacts and email, it also provides milestone and task management, and a built-in time-tracking function. All of the above are well-implemented, although some users may actually

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‘Rent-a-guests’ send wedding costs spirallingA new phenomenon , the rent-a-guest is inflating the average price of a wedding; Billed as a quick and simple way to save red faces, spouses realising they’ve married a social leper can be assured of an unlimited supply of friendly, charming guests to make them look good. Tags: bizarre, wedding, marriage, hilariousPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future

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The Word As We Knew ItThe internet and it’s unique ability to rapidly share information across the planet has created a sort of ‘hot-bed’ for the evolution of language. New phrases, words, acronyms and slangs have been given the ability to virally evolve and disseminate to new populations within a matter of days. Definitions are born, morph, and die based on the evolving collective

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LIVE: Google Apps Event | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Digital Daily is carrying John Paczkowski's point-by-point twitter stream of the Google Apps Event. Fascinating stuff. Especially Dave Girouard's comments comparing Google Apps to MSOffice. One highlight of the event seems to be the announcement of a Google Outlook integration app. Sounds like something similar to

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Microsoft Office vs. the other guys - FierceCIO:TechWatchA new report by research analyst, Forrester says that 80 percent of enterprise customers are using some version of Microsoft Office. This reflects the stranglehold Microsoft has on the office productivity market, despite increased awareness of alternatives such as Sun's OpenOffice.org suite, and the rise of web-hosted variants such as

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US Justice Dept probing company recruiting-source | Industries | Technology, Media & Telecommunications | ReutersMore details on the new DoJ investigation, including confirmations from Google and Genentech. Tags: Google, Yahoo!, Apple, Genentech, antitrustWASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating a possible no talent-poaching pact by big tech businesses, a tech

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Antitrust Probe Targets Tech Giants, Sources Say - washingtonpost.comTags: antitrust, Yahoo!, Google, Apple, GenentechThe Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether some of the nation's largest technology companies violated antitrust laws by negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another's employees, according to two sources with knowledge of the review. The review,

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Google Wave Crashes Over Microsoft | Michael Hickens....."With Wave, which Google previewed for developers at its I/O conference yesterday, developers can for the first time create Web-based applications that compete with Microsoft in terms of quality (while utterly trumping it on price). It also creates the conditions for customers to comfortably shuck off the shackles of installed software —

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Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5 | Webware - CNET"........ Google Native Client, still highly experimental, lets browsers run program modules natively on an x86 processor for higher performance than with Web programming technologies such as JavaScript or Flash that involve more software layers to process and execute the code. But to use it, there's a significant barrier: people must

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Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - O'Reilly RadarGoogle Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/OTags: html5, google, browserGoogle Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - By Alex MIkhalevAccela Selects Newton for Applicant ManagementAccela, the leading provider of government software solutions, has implemented recruiting software from Newton to help manage their on-going efforts

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Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - O'Reilly Radar"Never underestimate the web," says Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra in his keynote at Google I/O this morning..... Tim O'Reilly provides us with his play-by-play account of the Google I/O event. Amazing stuff. The Web has arrived and it is no longer the "network of networks". It's rather quickly becoming the mother of all

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Essential online business software for startupsYou’ve decided to start your own business- escape the grind and finally pursue your dreams. Today's entrepreneur can utilize a variety of enterprise software applications that will help them get on their feet without giving away an arm and leg of their nest-egg. I've created a list of some of my favorites- feel free to contribute with any others

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GoogleTags: no_tagI liked the fossil google header in middle may 2009 - By Ernest RandoPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperability | HoneyMonster Spells It OutWhat mr. Weir and mr. Allison also don?t tell you is that controlling a standard is very much a competitive instrument. Imagine Microsoft extending Word or Excel with new capabilities (like tex-like layout rules, new graphics filters or new advanced mathematical functions). If the documents had to be saved in

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Mozilla drags IE into the future with Canvas element plugin - Ars TechnicaMozilla plans to drag IE into the next generation of open web technologies without Microsoft's help. One of the first steps towards achieving this goal is a new experimental plugin that adapts Mozilla's implementation of the HTML5 Canvas element so that it can be used in Internet Explorer. The Canvas element allows web

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The Phantom Proposalstags: no_tagOK, once again things are looking very nasty at the ODF TC wonderland. This may surpass the infamous "List Enhancement" donnybrook that ended up with OASIS closing down the OpenDocument Foundation OSS sponsorship loophole. - post by garyedwardsIn Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperability | TalkBack on ZDNetODF is important. So What Went Wrong?

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Top 5 Business Tools to Help Make Life SaneHere is a quick list of 5 useful business tools to help outmaneuver your competition and avoid a headache in the process. Tags: business, tools, efficiency, Accounting, Collaboration, Hiring, software, Sales, CommunicationPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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Microsoft-led Forum Yields Tools for OOXML Interoperability - Business Center - PC WorldIs there nothing that can cool the flames of this document war? Interesting coverage of the recent OOXML Interoperability event in London (Monday). Real stuff not talk. Since Florian, Jason and i are working on an OpenWeb ready HTML+ layer riding over OOXML there are some things mentioned that look very

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Google and RDFa: what and why - bobdc.blogSurprise—to make more money! After the initial burst of discussion about Google putting their toe into the standardized metadata water, I started wondering about the corner of the pool they had chosen. They're not ready to start parsing any old RDFa; they'll be looking for RDFa that uses the vocabulary they somewhat hastily defined for the purpose. Why

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What would you do with 100 times the bandwidth?what would you do with 20, or 100, times the bandwidth you currently have? This may become a possibility very soon, so I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of future applications that could exist with a much bigger pipe. Feel free to chirp in with your own ideas! Tags: IT, used, router, interop, high, bandwidth, cisco, definition,

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Rich SnippetsGoogle "Rich Snippets" is a new presentation of HTML snippets that applies Google's algorithms to highlight structured data embedded in web pages. Rich Snippets give end-users convenient summary information about their search results at a glance. Google is currently supporting a very limited subset of data about reviews and people.

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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Rich SnippetsGoogle "Rich Snippets" is a new presentation of HTML snippets that applies Google's algorithms to highlight structured data embedded in web pages. Rich Snippets give end-users convenient summary information about their search results at a glance. Google is currently supporting a very limited subset of data about reviews and people.

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10 Eye-wateringly Huge Office Layoffs From The Credit CrunchThe rate of job losses in the credit crunch has been monumental and at times unprecedented: on a single day in January of this year, 70,000 people lost their jobs! Tags: credit, crunch, employment, recessionHow Small Business can compete in Big RecruitingThe question is: how can small and medium sized business (SMEs) stay competitive

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The Problem With Debt | Clusterstock on HomeOwner Equity Loss"15.4 million homeowners now owe more on their houses than their houses are worth, up from 13.6 million four months ago. The number will probably top 20 million when all is said and done. To mark this sad stat, we've updated our post from last fall on the power of leverage." Excellent math in this article. Very simple and

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Cisco Hardware to power 4G WiMax NetworksFinally something to really get 4G WiMax going- the addition of Cisco as a partner to build the network hardware. Get ready for full-fledged cell phone video conferencing. Tags: cisco, hardware, WiMax, used, 4G, clearwire, router, switch, 3GPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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Open Government Data InitiativeTags: Microsoft, cloud computing, azure, marketing, governmentThe Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) is an initiative led by Microsoft Public Sector Developer Evangelism team. OGDI uses the Azure Services Platform to make it easier to publish and use a wide variety of public data from government agencies. OGDI is

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IBM Wins Pyrrhic Format Battle Over Microsoft | Michael HickinsMichael Hickins has an interesting angle on the document wars: ...... "By releasing a new service pack for Office that includes support for the open document format (ODF), Microsoft appears to be complying with European demands that it play well with others, while putting to rest accusations by IBM that it is still trying to maintain

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W3C Kills HTML-CSS 1998: Hixie's Natural LogIn 2004 Ian Hickson attended the W3C workgroup on XHTML and CDF. He notes the fact that, as Steven Pemberton pointed out, six year ago (1998), the W3C decided that HTML was dead, and the way forward was a host of new languages (what is now XHTML2, XForms, MathML, SVG) that would lead the world's population to a clean new world. Then he has this to

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White House Plans to Reverse Bush Antitrust Rules - washingtonpost.comTags: antitrust, DoJ, FTC, Google, AppleThe Obama administration today said it would reverse rules made during the Bush administration that made it difficult to stop anticompetitive business behavior.Over the past couple weeks, antitrust regulators have launched reviews of online giant Google. The DOJ is investigating a

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The real state of ODF Interoperability? There is none : Comments from the Northwest Progressive Institute Advocate Review of OpenOffice and ODFMarbux nails it again in the comments section of this obscure review. In particular, he sites Shah, Rajiv C. and Kesan, Jay P., Lost in Translation: Interoperability Issues for Open Standards - ODF and OOXML as Examples (September 2008), Link to paper

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Cutting corners - the realpolitik of ODF standardisation? - The Wayback Machine Roars RealityFrom Notes2Self 2006 post we discover once again that ODF Interop problems are not new. Back in early February 2005, the legendary developer James Clark made a comment to the OASIS OpenDocument technical Committee about the lack of interoperability for spreadsheet documents: ".... I really hope I'm

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Google Analytics Reports are back concerning the results of using Twitter and blogging to increase KS Design Website awareness on the internet. - Smaller IndianaThe Google reports of the effects twitter and blogging has had on KS Design, My companyTags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.

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Semapedia.org: indexWith Semapedia you can hyperlink your physical world with knowledge that matters. To do this you create small Semapedia Tags consisting of a cell-phone readable 2D Barcode that will link others to the content you provide. Or put simply: Mark things like buildings, books, airplanes, cars or whatever with small Semapedia Tags that let others be a entry-point for more

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Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine - First Official DemoTwo days ago Stephen Wolfram gave an early preview of his “computational knowledge engine” Wolfram Alpha at a talk at Harvard University. The video of the whole presentation (1h 45min long) is here above, while down below you can find some highlights I transcripted from his speech. Tags: wolfram alpha, computational knowledge

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