OpenWeb 05/17/2012 (a.m.)

• Engagio Gives the Web a 'Context' Button

  After reading this article i gave engag.io a try.  It's very simple to sign up different networks like Facebook, Disquis, Tweeter, G+, Tumblr, LinkedIN and FourSquare.  But there doesn't seem to be a way to add my bookmarking network, Diigo?  Still, Engagio looks like a very useful service.  No idea how they plan on making money :) excerpt: The killer app for the social Web is the one that will filter the signal from the noise. In the Facebook age, even casual Web users hold tons of conversations at once. Engagio, the conversation discovery company, pulls them all into one place. It also leads you into new ones. And with a new dashboard view released today, it lets you click one button to figure out what's actually going on in all these conversations. Engagio's dashboard breaks out articles, sites and other links from all your social networks into separate panels, and lets you reply, share and like straight from there. But the best part of this section is the "context" button.

  Tags: engagio, social-networks

  • - By Gary Edwards

• 2012 Survey Shows SMBs Increasingly Moving to Cloud Services [Infographic]

  Nice infographic!  Shows that great transition from Windows desktop client/server to Cloud Computing is well underway.  I've tried RingCentral, and it's very good.  But i much prefer Google Voice - especially since i have an HTC Android.  RingCentral only offers one advantage over gVoice; they have integrated fax.  Everything else about RingCentral seemed like a throwback to DOS applications.   gVoice is slowly evolving.  Seems like it's taking forever to complete the integration with gMail, gSearch, and gDocs.  But i can see the incredible potential of Cloud integrated communications, content and collaborative computing.  gVoice has a potential like no one else. excerpt: The results are in from our annual smartphone survey! We polled 300 RingCentral SMB customers about their mobile device adoption and cloud use. The key takeaway: 57% of business owners said the majority of their business-critical applications currently run in the cloud.

  Tags: gVoice, RingCentral, Cloud-Computing, Cloud-Productivity, Cloud-SMB, Great-Transition, InfoGraphic, Graphic

  • - By Gary Edwards

• Discoverer of JSON Recommends Suspension of HTML5 | Web Security Journal

  Fascinating conversation between Douglas Crockford and Jeremy Geelan. The issue is that XSS - the Cross Site Scripting capabilities of HTML. and "the painful gap" in the HTML5 specification of the itnerface between JavaScript and the browser.I had to use the Evernote Clearly Chrome extension to read this page. Microsoft is running a huge JavaScript advertisement/pointer that totally blocks the page with no way of closing or escaping. Incredible. Clearly was able to knock it out though. Nicely done!The HTML5-XSS problem is very important, especially if your someone like me that sees the HTML+ format (HTML5-CSS3-JSON-JavaScript-SVG/Canvas) as the undisputed Cloud Productivity Platform "compound document" model. The XSS discussion goes right to the heart of matter of creating an HTML compound document in much the same way that a MSOffice Productivity Compound Document worked. The XSS mimics the functionality of of embedded compound document components such as OLE, DDE, ODBC and Scripting. Crack open any client/server business document and it will be found to be loaded with these embeded components.It seems to me that any one of the Cloud Productivity Platform contenders could solve the HTML-XSS problem. I'm thinking Google Apps, Zoho, SalesForce.com, RackSpace and Amazon - with gApps and Zoho clearly leading the charge. Also let me add that RSS and XMP (Jabber), while not normally mentioned with JSON, ought to be considered. Twitter uses RSS to transport and connect data. Jabber is of course a long time favorite of mine.excerpt:The fundamental mistake in HTML5 was one of prioritization. It should have tackled the browser's most important problem first. Once the platform was secured, then shiny new features could be carefully added.There is much that is attractive about HTML5. But ultimately the thing that made the browser into a credible application delivery system was JavaScript, the ultimate workaround tool. There is a painful gap in the specification of the interface between JavaScript and the browser, and that is a source of XSS and other maladies. The responsible course of action was to correct that defect first.That course is still available to us. My recommendation is that we suspend the current HTML5 activity. We start over with a new charter: To quickly and effectively repair the XSS vulnerability. Then we can mine the bloated HTML5 set for features that have high value and which do not introduce new security vulnerabilities.HTML5 has a lot of momentum and appears to be doomed to succeed. I think the wiser course is to get it right first. We have learned the hard way that once an error gets into a web standard, it is really hard to get it out.

  Tags: Douglas-Crawford, HTML5-XSS, XSS, compound-documents

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 05/16/2012 (p.m.)

• How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

  Nice catch by Jason.  The lesson learned is one we've seen time and again.  excerpt: Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way. Do you remember Flickr's tag line? It reads "almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world." It was an epic humble brag, a momentously tongue in cheek understatement. Because until three years ago, of course Flickr was the best photo sharing service in the world. Nothing else could touch it. If you cared about digital photography, or wanted to share photos with friends, you were on Flickr. Yet today, that tagline simply sounds like delusional posturing. The photo service that was once poised to take on the the world has now become an afterthought. Want to share photos on the Web? That's what Facebook is for. Want to look at the pictures your friends are snapping on the go? Fire up Instagram.

  Tags: Flicker, Yahoo

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 05/12/2012 (a.m.)

• Matt On Stuff: Hadoop For The Rest Of Us

  Excellent Hadoop/Hive explanation.  Hat tip to Matt Asay for the link.  I eft a comment on Matt's blog questioning the consequences of the Oracle vs. Google Android lawsuit, and the possible enforcement of the Java API copyright claim against Hadoop/Hive.  Based on this explanation of Hadoop/Hive, i'm wondering if Oracle is making a move to claim the entire era of Big Data Cloud Computing?  To understand why, it's first necessary to read Matt the Hadoople's explanation.   kill shot excerpt: "You've built your Hadoop job, and have successfully processed the data. You've generated some structured output, and that resides on HDFS. Naturally you want to run some reports, so you load your data into a MySQL or an Oracle database. Problem is, the data is large. In fact it's so large that when you try to run a query against the table you've just created, your database begins to cry. If you listen to its sobs, you'll probably hear "I was built to process Megabytes, maybe Gigabytes of data. Not Terabytes. Not Perabytes. That's not my job. I was built in the 80's and 90's, back when floppy drives were used. Just leave me alone". "This is where Hive comes to the rescue. Hive lets you run an SQL statement against structured data stored on HDFS. When you issue an SQL query, it parses it, and translates it into a Java Map/Reduce job, which is then executed on your data. Although Hive does some optimizations, in general it just goes record by record against all your data. This means that it's relatively slow - a typical Hive query takes 5 or 10 minutes to complete, depending on how much data you have. However, that's what makes it effective. Unlike a relational database, you don't waste time on query optimization, adding indexes, etc. Instead, what keeps the processing time down is the fact that the query is run on all machines in your Hadoop cluster, and the scalability is taken care of for you." "Hive is extremely useful in data-warehousing kind of scenarios. You would never use Hive as a database for a web application, because the response time is always in minutes, not seconds. However, for generating huge custom reports, running some really expensive query on year's worth of data, or doing any kind of processing on massive amounts of data, Hive really shines. This is why companies like Oracle and IBM (IBM owns Netezza, a competitor to Oracle) are scared of Hadoop and Hive. Hive makes it possible for companies to easily process massive amounts of data, and processing massive amounts of data is typically how database makers differentiate themselves. And yes, just like the rest of Hadoop ecosystem, Hive is free and open-source." ...........

  Tags: Hadoop_Hive, Java-API, Oracle, Google, Map_Reduce, Cloud, Cloud-Productivity-Platform

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 05/11/2012 (p.m.)

• Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete. It’s time for it to die. - Slate Magazine

  Tags: no_tag

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OpenWeb 05/09/2012 (a.m.)

• Microsoft pitches SkyDrive over iCloud to Mac Office users - Computerworld

  Interesting article describing a recent press conference where Microsoft introduced their latest SkyDrive alternative to Apple's iCloud initiative.  Having had considerable experience with SkyDrive and the entire "sync-share-store" Cloud category, I left a lengthy comment. Computerworld - Microsoft is pitching its SkyDrive online storage service to Office for Mac users, calling Apple's iCloud offering "not enough" for collaboration, file sharing and anywhere-access to documents. Microsoft released an OS X SkyDrive client preview two weeks ago, adding Macs to the list of devices -- Windows, particularly the upcoming Windows 8, iOS and Windows Phone -- with native support for the Dropbox-like service. On Monday, the Redmond, Wash. developer stumped for SkyDrive on its Office for Mac website. "With the SkyDrive for Mac OS X Lion preview, SkyDrive for Windows, and the release of SkyDrive for iPad, you can save and store your important documents or other files in the SkyDrive folder in Finder and access them from anywhere," the Office for Mac team wrote on its blog.

  Tags: ge, Cloud-Productivity-Platform, MS-Skydrive, MS-Cloud-Productivity, SkyDrive-Live, iCloud

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 05/04/2012 (a.m.)

• The GPL Does Not Depend on the Copyrightability of APIs | Public Knowledge

  Excellent legal piece explaining the options and methods of how software programs use licensed and copyrighted third party libraries through an API. Finally, some clear thinking about Google Android and the Oracle Java Law Suit.
  excerpt:Another option for a developer is to do what Google did when it created Android, and create replacement code libraries that are compatible with the existing code libraries, but which are new copyrighted works. Being "compatible" in this context means that the new libraries are called in the same way that the old libraries are--that is, using the same APIs. But the actual copyrighted code that is being called is a new work. As long as the new developer didn't actually copy code from the original libraries, the new libraries are not infringing. It does not infringe on the copyright of a piece of software to create a new piece of software that works the same way; copyright protects the actual expression (lines of code) but not the functionality of a program. The functionality of a program is protected by patent, or not at all.
  In the Oracle/Google case, no one is arguing that code libraries themselves are not copyrightable. Of course they are and this is why the Google/Oracle dispute has no bearing on the enforceability of the GPL. Instead, the argument is about whether the method of using a code library, the APIs, is subject to a copyright that is independent of the copyright of the code itself. If the argument that APIs are not copyrightable prevails, programs that are created by statically-linking GPL'd code libraries will still be considered derivative works of the code libraries and will still have to be released under the GPL.
  Though irrelevant to the enforceability of the GPL, the Oracle/Google dispute is still interesting. Oracle is claiming that Google, by creating compatible, replacement code libraries that are "called" in the same way as Oracle's code libraries (that is, using the same APIs), infringed on some kind of copyright that inheres in the APIs themselves. This means that Oracle is claiming copyright not on the unique creative expression of its code libraries, but on the functionality of the libraries. Oracle is saying that to make a piece of software that is "API-compatible" with another product, without more, constitutes copyright infringement...................

  Tags: OpenWeb, GPL, Oracle-Google, Java-Android

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 04/29/2012 (a.m.)

• Cabinet Office Acts On Discovery Of Undisclosed Conflict Of Interest - Simon Says...

  Tags: Microsoft, UK Open Standards Consultation

• Who Needs CISPA? FBI Has a Non-Profit Workaround - Slashdot

  Tags: CISPA, privacy, liberty, freedom, FBI, corptocracy

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OpenWeb 04/28/2012 (p.m.)

• The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen | Epicenter | Wired.com

  Must read interview. Marc Andreessen explains his five big ideas, taking us from the beginning of the Web, into the Cloud and beyond. Great stuff!... (1) 1992 - Everyone Will Have the Web... (2) 1995 - The Browser will the Operating System... (3) 1999 - Web business will live in the Cloud... (4) 2004 - Everything will be Social... (5) 2009 - Software will Eat the Worldexcerpt:Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use—not only text or media but processing power too—will be located remotely. People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out ecommerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. Think of each website as an application, and every single click, every single interaction with that site, is an opportunity to be on the very latest version of that application. Once you start thinking in terms of networks, it just doesn’t make much sense to prefer local apps, with downloadable, installable code that needs to be constantly updated.
  
  “We could have built a social element into Mosaic. But back then the Internet was all about anonymity.”
  Anderson: Assuming you have enough bandwidth.
  
  Andreessen: That’s the very big if in this equation. If you have infinite network bandwidth, if you have an infinitely fast network, then this is what the technology wants. But we’re not yet in a world of infinite speed, so that’s why we have mobile apps and PC and Mac software on laptops and phones. That’s why there are still Xbox games on discs. That’s why everything isn’t in the cloud. But eventually the technology wants it all to be up there.
  
  Anderson: Back in 1995, Netscape began pursuing this vision by enabling the browser to do more.
  
  Andreessen: We knew that you would need some processing to stay on the computer, so we invented JavaScript. And then we also catalyzed Java, which enabled far more sophisticated applications in the network, by building support for Java into the browser. The basic idea, which remains in force today, is that you do some computation on the device, but you want the server application to be in control of that. And the whole process is completely invisible to the user.... The application model of the future is the web application model. The apps will live on the web. Mobile apps on platforms like iOS and Android are a temporary step along the way toward the full mobile web. Now, that temporary step may last for a very long time. Because the networks are still limited. But if you grant me the very big assumption that at some point we will have ubiquitous, high-speed wireless connectivity, then in time everything will end up back in the web model. Because the technology wants it to work that way...... LoudCloud was also called "Silicon Valley Power & Light". Tech companies could use LoudCloud as a utility for their applications. - a software power grid!... I have another theory that I call the missing campus puzzle. When you drive down highway 101 through Silicon Valley, you pass the Oracle campus and then the Google campus and then the Cisco campus. And some people think, wow, they’re so big. But what I think is, I’ve been driving for close to an hour—why haven’t I passed a hundred more campuses? Why is there all this open space?Anderson: What’s your answer?Andreessen: Think about what it has meant to build a primary technology company up until now. In order to harness a large enough market, to attract the right kind of technical talent, to pay them adequately, to grow the company to critical mass—until now that’s only been possible with companies that are providing tools for all sectors, not just specific sectors. Technology has been just a slice of the economy. We’ve been making the building blocks to get us to today, when technology is poised to remake the whole economy.Anderson: What categories are next?Andreessen: The next stops, I believe, are education, financial services, health care, and then ultimately government—the huge swaths of the economy that historically have not been addressable by technology, that haven’t been amenable to the entrance of Silicon Valley-style software companies. But increasingly I think they’re going to be.Anderson: Today, so much software is instantiated in hardware—Apple being a great example. As software “eats the world,” do you think that we’ll see fewer companies like Apple that deliver their revolutionary software in the form of shiny objects?So when we look at Lytro and we look at Jawbone, we see software expressed as hardware—highly specialized hardware that will be hard to clone...... When Milton Friedman was asked about this kind of thing, he said: Human wants and needs are infinite, and so there will always be new industries, there will always be new professions. This is the great sweep of economic history. When the vast majority of the workforce was in agriculture, it was impossible to imagine what all those people would do if they didn’t have agricultural jobs. Then a hundred years later the vast majority of the workforce was in industrial jobs, and we were similarly blind: It was impossible to imagine what workers would do without those jobs. Now the majority are in information jobs. If the computers get smart enough, then what? I’ll tell you: The then what is whatever we invent next.

  Tags: Marc-Andreessen

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 04/13/2012 (p.m.)

• nivio - Bringing the Magic back to Computing

  MDOffice and Windows Apps served up from the Cloud.  Very interesting!

  Tags: nivio, Cloud-Computing

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 04/13/2012 (a.m.)

• This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. | Privacy Inc. - CNET News

  Very informative article.  Kudos to Marbux.  Explains how warrantless (illegal) surveillance by Government works, including the un-Constitutional strong arm tactics they use on Internet Service Providers to access your Web communications and activities.  Marbux has it right about the Calyx Project; "Where do i sign up?" Good read! excerpt: Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance. Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he's raising funds to launch a national "non-profit telecommunications provider dedicated to privacy, using ubiquitous encryption" that will sell mobile phone service and, for as little as $20 a month, Internet connectivity. The ISP would not merely employ every technological means at its disposal, including encryption and limited logging, to protect its customers. It would also -- and in practice this is likely more important -- challenge government surveillance demands of dubious legality or constitutionality.

  Tags: Calyx-Project, ISP, Nicholas-Merrill, Government-Surveillance, Police-State, OpenWeb

  • - By Gary Edwards

• Feds use keylogger to thwart PGP, Hushmail | News Blogs - CNET News

  The more i learn about the Governments illegal and un-Constitutional surveillance activities, the worse it gets.  As i read this article i couldn't help but wonder why the Government would want to disclose the warrantless activities as evidence in court?  Clearly the Government wants to have their violations of carefully enumerated Constitutional protections of individual rights validated by the nations courts.  Scary stuff. excerpt: A recent court case provides a rare glimpse into how some federal agents deal with encryption: by breaking into a suspect's home or office, implanting keystroke-logging software, and spying on what happens from afar. An agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration persuaded a federal judge to authorize him to sneak into an Escondido, Calif., office believed to be a front for manufacturing the drug MDMA, or Ecstasy. The DEA received permission to copy the hard drives' contents and inject a keystroke logger into the computers. That was necessary, according to DEA Agent Greg Coffey, because the suspects were using PGP and the encrypted Web e-mail service Hushmail.com. Coffey asserted that the DEA needed "real-time and meaningful access" to "monitor the keystrokes" for PGP and Hushmail passphrases. The aggressive surveillance techniques employed by the DEA were part of a case that resulted in a ruling on Friday (PDF) by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which primarily dealt with Internet surveillance through a wiretap conducted on a PacBell (now AT&T) business DSL line used by the defendants.

  Tags: Keystroke-Loggers, Big-Government, Police-State, keylogger

  • - By Gary Edwards

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Podio - how to work smarter, in your way

OpenWeb 04/09/2012 (p.m.)

• CSIRO eyes microwave backhaul market - Telco/ISP - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au

  Tags: wireless networking, broadband, mobile devices

  • CSIRO has begun talks with global manufacturers to commercialise microwave technology it says can provide at least 10 Gbps symmetric backhaul services to mobile towers.

  • Microwave transmission is used to link mobile towers back to a carrier’s network where it is physically difficult or economically unviable to run fibre to the tower.

    Where current technology has an upper limit of a gigabit per second to multiple towers over backhaul, the government organisation said it could provide the 10 Gbps symmetric speeds over ranges of up to 50 kilometres.

  • The microwave backhaul project comes as second phase of CSIRO’s ‘Ngara’ project, which previously aimed to use radio spectrum freed up from the switch to digital television to provide residential fixed wireless broadband connections.

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OpenWeb 04/06/2012 (p.m.)

• Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com

  Tags: Google, Android, glkasses, Project Glass

  • The prototype version Google showed off on Wednesday looked like a very polished and well-designed pair of wrap-around glasses with a clear display that sits above the eye. The glasses can stream information to the lenses and allow the wearer to send and receive messages through voice commands. There is also a built-in camera to record video and take pictures.

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OpenWeb 04/02/2012 (a.m.)

• SMB cloud adoption begins to acclerate, study finds

  Interesting chart describes the massive transition of small and medium sized businesses to the Cloud.  Cloud based eMail and messaging leads the way.  Top two reasons for the great transition?  Cost reduction and productivity improvement. Unfortunately this article fails to describe what this great transition to the Cloud means to legacy productivity systems - most of which are provided and provisioned by Microsoft.  What happens to desktop and workgroup based business systems when the local data and transaction processing server systems are moved to the Cloud?  How are desktop and workgroup systems re written or migrated? Another factor missing from this article is any discussion of what happens to productivity when communications, content and collaborative computing are interoperably entwined throughout the application layer?  We know that the legacy Windows productivity platform seriously lacked communications capabilities.  This fact greatly reduced expected productivity gains.   excerpt: Microsoft commissioned the study of 3,000 small and medium sized businesses in 13 countries. The survey was conducted by Wayland, Mass.-based research firm Edge Strategies. The most commonly used cloud services are email, instant messaging, voice communications, and backup. Edge also looked at SMB cloud plans over the next three years and the same cloud services also are in the IT plans of those embracing the cloud. From this data, it certainly could be argued that SMBs seem to be quick to embrace the cloud in order to enhance communication. It makes sense: in small business, communication is key to ensure rapid growth. The biggest motivators for migration to the cloud among SMBs is to save money (54 percent), followed by increases in productivity. Decision makers also mentioned flexibility as a fairly common response. Of those already using the cloud, 59 percent reported productivity increases as a result. SMB cloud adoption begins to acclerate, study finds http://betanews.com/2012/04/01/smb-cloud-adoption-begins-to-acclerate-study-finds/

  Tags: Cloud-Productivity-Platform, Microsoft-Cloud

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 03/27/2012 (a.m.)

• iTWire - Huawei claims 30Gbps wireless "beyond LTE"

  Tags: Huawei, broadband, 30Gbps

  • Huawei says it has "recently introduced...Beyond LTE technology, which significantly increases peak rates to 30Gbps - over 20 times faster than existing commercial LTE networks."

    It claims to have achieved this with "key breakthroughs in antenna structure, radio frequency architecture, IF (intermediate frequency) algorithms, and multi-user MIMO (multi-input multi-output).

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Future of the Web 03/25/2012 (a.m.)

• Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More

  https://www.facebook.com/events/253224101436264/ [ 25 de MARZO: "PARON EN FACEBOOK, 24 HORAS". CONTRA LA CENSURA EN LA RED. POR LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION de Jose Ramon Blasco Artatxo Dados los continuos ataques que sufren lus usuarios de facebook en lo que respecta a la LIBERTAD DE EXPRESION, varios colectivos y usuarios individuales convocan un PARON en facebook de 24 horas como protesta por esas agresiones. DichoPARON comenzaría a las 00.00 horas del día 25 de marzo, finalizando ese mismo día 25 a las 24.00. Se hace un llamamiento para que en esas 24 horas, no se cuelgue nada en la red, y si unos minutos antes como indicaremos al final de esta nota. El hecho de cercenar lla libertad de expresión, se agrava por ser objeto, quienes estan en esta red, de indefesión continua,ya que se dan los bloqueos sin explicación o con ambiguedades...Son "juicios sumarísimos" sin posibilidad de alegaciones ni pliegos de descargo...]

  Tags: Facebook, users, against, censorship, stay, logged, out, till, 00:00h, Monday, 26

  • - By Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.
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OpenWeb 03/24/2012 (a.m.)

• Wyden Amendments to House's JOBS Act Would Halt ACTA, Force TPP Transparency | Bloomberg BNA

  Tags: ACTA, trade agreeements, copyright law

• Microsoft Reinvents its Cloud Strategy

  Microsoft announces a new plan, "Microsoft Dynamics", to accelerate the transition to replace their traditional / conventional software systems with cloud-ready infrastructure. Dynamics also serves as a migration guide, providing "seamless integration" of services from old IT to new Cloud.Competitors mentioned include SalesForce.com, SAP and Oracle. Lots of focus on integrating CRM into the full line of business applications. This is somewhat similar to the Visual Productivity challenge of integrating gMail into a working productivity system based on the Google Apps platform. Embedding the full range of Visual Web Communications into productivity apps and services is the key at all levels.One thing to consider in this article is that the only Cloud - Productivity - Business systems contenders are SalesForce, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft. Google Apps isn't mentioned. Nor is Amazon, RackSpace or VMware. Apple, Cisco, HP and Facebook are also left out.

  Tags: Cloud-Computing, Cloud-Productivity-Platform, Visual-Productivity, Visual-Web, Visual-Document

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 03/21/2012 (a.m.)

• Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory | TechCrunch

  Interesting, but do they have a plan to implement ODBC at the Cloud level?  It's one thing to provide connectivity, exploration and analysis to non Cloud data and transaction servers.  And another to connect the data feeds into next generation compound documents.  Seems to me this is an effective first step, but the value remains elusive.  Left a comment on this page. exerpt: The startup’s offering, which has not been released yet, will connect to data stored in databases as well as the web and other sources, and adds a visual discovery component to make it easy for users to parse through this data and make sense of the information. The beauty of ClearStory is that it allows businesses to analyze internal and publicly available data at the same time and make this data easy for the masses to understand.

  Tags: ge, ClearStory-Data

  • - By Gary Edwards

• Mobile Content Management | Averail

  new startup, looking to be a contender in the mobile sync-share-store content sector.  Not sure what separates them from the Dropbox sector though.  big time funding.  Sandhill road.

  Tags: Averail, DropBox

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 03/20/2012 (p.m.)

• Who will be the ‘Dropbox of the enterprise?’ The race is on — Cloud Computing News

  Could have written this two years ago, but it is a sign of the times, and the advance towards a Cloud Productivity Platform that brings this issue front and center.  DropBox has many challengers (finally).  It's always seemed to me that sync-share-store is a foundation kind of service.  Another would be that of real time connectivity to data and transaction processing systems - Cloud ODBC.  The great transition is indeed underway.  And this is a good day for me.  I've got tow companies that made the 451 list!  Now, if only DropBox will listen.

  Tags: DropBox, SurDoc

  • - By Gary Edwards

• What’s in a name? Analyzing ‘Dropbox for the enterprise’ — Too much information

  The 454 Take on DropBox and the sync-share-store phenomenon.  Kathleen Reidy

  Tags: DropBox

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 03/17/2012 (a.m.)

• ChronoZoom: A deep dive into the history of everything

  Tags: timeline, ChronoZoom, Microsoft

  • Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt’s dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple interned in a World War II relocation camp to a discussion of a mass extinction that occurred on Earth 200 million years ago – all in seconds.

    Based on an idea from a University of California, Berkeley, student, ChronoZoom – essentially a zoomable timeline of timelines augmented with multimedia features –- is coming to life.

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OpenWeb 03/14/2012 (a.m.)

• Ray Ozzie's startup has mobility, communications at core - Computerworld

  Interesting, but lightweight interview with Ray Ozzie.  Look at the productivity comment in particular.  He also mentions "social productivity" as being an aspect of "communications".  My guess is that his new startup, Cocomo, will gear up towards a Cloud Productivity Platform where this new capability of integrated web communications is woven deep into collaborative productivity applications.  With enough juice to blow the legacy Windows - MSOffice Productivity environment out of the water.  We shall see. excerpt: When he joined Microsoft he thought it had a "tremendous history," he said, with great technology assets and people. But it was a company struggling to adjust to changes in the PC and server markets, he said. "I tried my best to communicate with various groups what their purpose in life was," he said. For instance, he tried to convince the Office group that it should focus on selling productivity, as opposed to selling PC-based productivity products, and the Xbox group that it should sell entertainment, not boxes or discs.

  Tags: Ray-Ozzie, Cocomo, Cloud-Productivity-Platform

  • - By Gary Edwards

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Fight for Freedom

OpenWeb 03/06/2012 (a.m.)

• Privacy betrayed: Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive — RT

  Tags: Twitter, tweets, privacy, social media

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OpenWeb 03/05/2012 (a.m.)

• EUROPA - Press Releases - Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against MathWorks

  Commission v. MIcrosoft Redux.

  Tags: interop, DG Competition, antitrust, European Commission

  • - By Paul Merrell

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OpenWeb 02/29/2012 (p.m.)

• The Best Guide to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing Programs

  Tags: earn_online, affiliate_marketing, affiliate_programs, affiliate_income, online_affiliate_programs

  • - By Stanley Jones

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Future of the Web 02/27/2012 (p.m.)

• Michael Geist - The ACTA Guide, Part One: The Talks To-Date

  [Monday January 25, 2010The 7th round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations begins tomorrow in Guadalajara, Mexico. The negotiation round will be the longest to-date, with three and a half days planned to address civil enforcement, border measures, the Internet provisions, and (one hour for) transparency. Over the next five days, I plan to post a five-part ACTA Guide that will include sourcing for much of the discussion on ACTA, links to all the leaked documents, information on the transparency issue, and a look at who has been speaking out. ...]

  Tags: acta, guide, copyright, counterfeiting, secret, agreement, knowledge, power, social, involvement, Internet

  • - By Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

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Future of the Web 02/27/2012 (a.m.)

• open enterprise manifesto | bettermeans.org

  Tags: management, manefesto, 2012, development, how to, change, enterprise, open

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Future of the Web 02/16/2012 (p.m.)

• Leadership Vs Management

  This is the most debated topic in management research today, and yet there has not been any clarity in arriving at a conceptual distinction between these two styles at increasing number of organizations.

  Tags: bp, charisma, Collaboration, collaborative, leadership, contingency, plan, divide, failure, harvard

  • - By asmi agarwal

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OpenWeb 02/14/2012 (a.m.)

• Node.js Manual @ Cloud 9 - Node Manual.org

  Node.js tutorials and script library resources

  Tags: Node.JS

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 02/05/2012 (a.m.)

• Goldilocks SEO | SEO Book.com

  Funny graphic showing how to engineer and maneuver your web sites to get the most out of Google Search Engine.  Excellent advice positioned in a cute, but surprisingly effective and contrasting graphic format.  

  Tags: Google-SEO, Goldilocks-SEO, OpenWeb

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/31/2012 (a.m.)

• Metacrap

  Tags: metadata

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OpenWeb 01/28/2012 (p.m.)

• 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.com

  Tags: search, web crawling, Common Crawl

• First 'Super Wi-Fi' network goes live in North Carolina

  Tags: wifi, wireless networking, super wifi, white spaces spectrum

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OpenWeb 01/27/2012 (p.m.)

• HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly

  HTML5 app development resource and advice site.  Same people who did the excellent CSS3 Please site.

  Tags: HTML5, tutorial, CSS3

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/27/2012 (a.m.)

• » 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, law

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OpenWeb 01/25/2012 (a.m.)

• Google's Chrome Browser Sprouts Programming Kit of the Future "Node.js" | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

  Good 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 and reports with Node.js event widgets, messages and database connections?  I'm thinking along the lines of a Lotus Notes alternative with a Node.js enhanced version of EverNote on the front end, and Node.js-Hadoop productivity platform on the server side? Might have to contact Stephen O'Grady on this.  He is a featured speaker at the conference. excerpt: At first, Chito Manansala (Visa & Sabre) built his Internet transaction processing systems using the venerable Java programming language. But he has since dropped Java and switched to what is widely regarded as The Next Big Thing among Silicon Valley developers. He switched to Node. Node is short for Node.js, a new-age programming platform based on a software engine at the heart of Google’s Chrome browser. But it’s not a browser technology. It’s meant to help build software that sits on a distant server somewhere, feeding an application to your PC or smartphone, and it’s particularly suited to systems like the one Chito Manansala is building — systems that juggle scads of information streaming to and from other sources. In other words, it’s suited to the modern internet. Two years ago, Node was just another open source project. But it has since grown into the development platform of the moment. At Yahoo!, Node underpins “Manhattan,” a fledgling online service for building and hosting mobile applications. Microsoft is offering Node atop Windows Azure, its online service for building and hosting a much beefier breed of business application. And Sabre is just one of a host of big names using the open source platform to erect applications on their own servers. Node is based on the Javascript engine at the heart of Google’s Chrome browser — the engine that executes Javascript code. But it takes Javascript out of the browser and moves it to a new place. The trick with Node is that developers can also use Javascript to build the back-end of an application — the part that runs on a server somewhere. With Node, all those developers who know how to build code for the browser can suddenly build stuff for the server too — at least in theory. It seeks to democratize net programming. “Javascript is ubiquitous,” says Jason Hoffman, the chief technology officer of Joyent. “With the emergence of Web 2.0, it won on the client-side, and it’s 100 percent cross-platform. With Node, we want it to win on the server-side — and be 100 percent cross-platform.” In other words, he wants it to run on any operating system. And it’s well on the way. It began on Linux, and now, in tandem with Microsoft, Joyent has moved it to Windows. This setup is ideal for applications handling a large number of connections to other systems. Chito Manansala’s project is a prime example. It connects not only to a wide range of back-end systems inside Sabre itself, but to myriad systems operated by hotels, airlines, rental car companies, and other travel providers. “We can’t wait for each of those systems to send us what we need — and wait and wait. The back-end system is always the weakest link,” Manansala tells Wired. “With Node, we send the request to the back-end system and then we move on to the next events.” His Node system is currently under test at Sabre, but it’s slated to go live in May.

  Tags: Stephen-OGrady, Node.JS, Joyent, Wired

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/24/2012 (a.m.)

• 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 questions, but the solution is elusive.  Good background though. Covers T.37, T.38, why Web-Fax operations use the VOIP channel to Fax, and how eMail gateways can be used instead of that VOIP channel.  Good explanations.

  Tags: Fax, Google-Voice

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/19/2012 (a.m.)

• IBM, Cisco, Red Hat, SAP Join Forces at OASIS To Combat Amazon's Cloud Success

  Good 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, Cloud-Productivity-Platform, Microsoft-Cloud

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/18/2012 (a.m.)

• Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net

  Steven 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 Edwards

• Pushing the 3D Boundaries in WebKit with CSS 3D and Three.js

  Good stuff going on at Acko.net! Excerpt: Sometimes, you need to see what a technology can do before you can fully appreciate it. Take, for instance, CSS 3D and Three.js. It's one thing to hear about doing 3D elements for Web sites, and another to see them integrated into a well-designed site. Take, for example, Steven Wittens' Acko.net redesign. Visit Acko.net using a current release of Firefox, and you'll see a nice clean site with a nice header image that demonstrates two-point perspective nicely. But hit the site using a WebKit browser, and you're in for a real treat.

  Tags: CSS-Layout, CSS-3D, WebGL, OpenWeb-Productivity-Platform, WebKit

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/14/2012 (a.m.)

• Kindle Format 8 Overview

  Amazon 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 version of  KGen?  I'm thinking that perhaps the OOo HTML problem could be solved in this way? There is no doubt in my mind that HTML5 will continue to grow, and eventually replace the desktop XML "compound document" formats. The great transition from desktop client/server business productivity environments, where legacy compound documents rule the roost and fuel the engines of all business systems, to a Cloud Productivity Platform, will require an HTML5 compound document format model.  Also needed will be HTML5 capable applications participating in the production of Cloud ready compound documents.  Is KF8 a reasonable starting place? excerpt: Kindle Format 8 is Amazon’s next generation file format offering a wide range of new features and enhancements – including HTML5 and CSS3 support that publishers can use to create all types of books. KF8 adds over 150 new formatting capabilities, including drop caps, numbered lists, fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars and Scalable Vector Graphics - opening up more opportunities to create Kindle books that readers will love. Kindle Fire is the first Kindle device to support KF8 - in the coming months KF8 will be rolled out to our latest generation Kindle e-ink devices as well as our free Kindle reading apps.

  Tags: KF8, compound-documents, Cloud-Productivity-Platform, Cloud-Compound-Document

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 01/06/2012 (a.m.)

• 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 free online, Google Code University (http://goo.gl/IJeB), the warm embrace of Stack Overflow, in-person courses like Dev Bootcamp (http://goo.gl/RPPxi), summer camps for kids, even the promise of a one-day result with Decoded (http://goo.gl/I6wGD) (the six-minute abs of learning to code), and great organizations like CodeNow (http://goo.gl/n4IO7) reaching out to teach code in underserved communities. I’m sure I’ve left many out.Treehouse   (http://goo.gl/MCeTL)Codecademy (http://goo.gl/kw2j9)Google Code University (http://goo.gl/IJeB)Dev Bootcamp (http://goo.gl/RPPxi)Decoded (http://goo.gl/I6wGD)CodeNow (http://goo.gl/n4IO7)

  Tags: Code, developer-training, HTML5-training, JavaScript-training, Java-training

  • - By Gary Edwards

• Telax Unveils HTML5 Software for Mac OS Contact Centers

  Interesting development in the world of real time Web Apps.  Looks like Business processes and services in the Cloud are embracing HTML5, and moving fast to replace legacy client/server.  Note this is not Flash or Silverlight RiA.   excerpt: Telax Hosted Call Center, a leader in cloud contact center solutions announced the release of its HTML5-based Call Center Agent (CCA) today. Key to the development of the browser-based CCA was Websocket, a component of HTML5 that provides a bi-directional, full-duplex communication channel over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket. Websocket is currently supported by the latest versions of Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Firefox, making Telax's new CCA compatible with the most popular browsers in Mac environments. Before HTML5, real-time unified communication software was typically deployed as a local client because its browser-based counterparts were unable to deliver an acceptable user experience. Some browser-based clients use 3rd party software such as Adobe Flash or Sliverlight to operate adequately, but both solutions require software installation and are not mobile friendly.

  Tags: HTML5

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/24/2011 (a.m.)

• How Google Apps works when actual people use it | TechRepublic

  Use 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: Google-Apps, Productivity, Cloud-Productivity-Platform

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/23/2011 (a.m.)

• Hover - domain name and email management made simple

  Many 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 Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/21/2011 (p.m.)

• Firefox Add-On Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking | TorrentFreak

  Tags: censorship, OpenWeb, SOPA, DNS Blocking

  • The 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 servers, bypassing all domestic DNS blockades and allowing the user to browse the site though the bare IP-address (if supported).

  • “It could be that a few members of congress are just not tech savvy and don’t understand that it is technically not going to work, at all. So here’s some proof that I hope will help them err on the side of reason and vote SOPA down,” he adds.
  • If browsing a site through a single IP address is not supported, this other anti-SOPA plugin provides an alternative.

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OpenWeb 12/20/2011 (p.m.)

• AT&T Ends $39 Billion Bid for T-Mobile - NYTimes.com

  Tags: AT&T, T-Mobile, antitrust, mergers, spectrum, wireless networking

• BT sues over hyperlink claim | Networking | ZDNet UK

  Tags: software patents, hyperlink patent, BT, Prodigy, lawsuit

  • The 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 to hyperlinks. BT says the patent, discovered in a routine trawl through its own patents three years ago, also covers a basic technology necessary for connecting computer users to the Internet.

    The telco aims to require all ISPs who use hyperlinks -- a fundamental Web technology -- to pay BT a licence fee.

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Future of the Web 12/20/2011 (p.m.)

• AT&T Ends $39 Billion Bid for T-Mobile - NYTimes.com

  Tags: AT&T, T-Mobile, antitrust, mergers, spectrum, wireless networking

  • AT&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 that it would continue to invest in wireless spectrum, but could not overcome resistance from both the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission.

  • Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will pay Deutsche Telekom $4 billion in cash and wireless spectrum as a break-up fee, and the two companies will begin a seven-year roaming agreement that will expand T-Mobile’s national coverage.

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OpenWeb 12/12/2011 (p.m.)

• World’s first programmable quantum photonic chip | ExtremeTech

  Tags: quantum computing, qubit

  • A 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 electrodes (see image above), the silicon chip is capable of repeatedly entangling photons. Depending on how the electrodes are programmed, different quantum states can be produced. The end result is two qubits that can be used to perform quantum computing — and unlike D-Wave’s 128-qubit processor (well, depending on who you ask) this is real quantum computing.

  • We know that entanglement can be used for very effective encryption, but beyond that it’s mostly guesswork. There’s general agreement that qubits should allow for faster computation of very complex numbers — think biological processes and weather systems — and early work by Google suggests that pattern recognition might also be a strength of qubits.

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OpenWeb 12/08/2011 (p.m.)

• This 32-Year-Old Entrepreneur Is Bent On Beating One Of Microsoft's Largest Businesses

  Good 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 come.  The Cloud is a greaqt opportunity for a new Productivity Platform.

  Tags: Huddle

  • - By Gary Edwards

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