Monday, April 26, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
OpenWeb 04/05/2010 (p.m.)
Mobile Data Surpasses Voice Traffic For First Time - HotHardware
- Total 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 textmessaging ) topped voice traffic on a monthly basis last year and the total traffic across the world exceeded an exabyte for the first time in 2009, according to a report just released by Chetan Sharma Consulting, a leading strategist in the mobile industry (clients include
AT&T
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Future of the Web 04/05/2010 (p.m.)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
OpenWeb 02/24/2010 (p.m.)
Mobile Cloud Computing: $9.5 Billion by 2014
I 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 web standard HTML5, increased mobile broadband coverage and the need for always-on collaborative services for the enterprise. Cloud Apps in your Pocket Mobile cloud computing is a term that refers to an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device from which an application is launched. To the typical consumer, a cloud-based mobile application looks and feels just like any app purchased or downloaded from a mobile application store like iTunes. However, the app is driven from the "cloud," not from the handheld device itself. There are already a few well-known mobile cloud apps out there including Google's Gmail and Google Voice for iPhone. When launched via iPhone homescreen shortcuts, these apps perform just like any other app on the iPhone, but all of their processing power comes from the cloud. In the future, there will be even more applications like these available, but they won't necessarily be mobilized web sites like those in Google's line-up. Cloud-based mobile apps are perfectly capable of being packaged in a way that allows them to be sold alongside traditional mobile apps in mobile application stores, with no one but the developers any wiser. HTML5 Paves the Way for Mobile Web's Future
- - By Gary Edwards
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Future of the Web 02/01/2010 (a.m.)
Webspiration: Online Visual Thinking Tool | mywebspiration.com
to 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.
- - By Alessandro P
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
OpenWeb 01/30/2010 (p.m.)
Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs
- We'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 connection.
Instead of emailing files to yourself, which is particularly difficult with large files, you can upload to Google Docs any file up to 250 MB. You'll have 1 GB of free storage for files you don't convert into one of the Google Docs formats (i.e. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations), and if you need more space, you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year. This makes it easy to backup more of your key files online, from large graphics and raw photos to unedited home videos taken on your smartphone. You might even be able to replace the USB drive you reserved for those files that are too big to send over email.
Combined with shared folders, you can store, organize, and collaborate on files more easily using Google Docs. For example, if you are in a club or PTA working on large graphic files for posters or a newsletter, you can upload them to a shared folder for collaborators to view, download, and print.
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Future of the Web 01/30/2010 (p.m.)
Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs
- - By Paul Merrell
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
OpenWeb 01/27/2010 (a.m.)
Very 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.
- - By Gary Edwards
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
OpenWeb 12/18/2009 (a.m.)
A Humbled Microsoft Opens Windows to Rivals - TIME
excerpt: "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 Windows operating system to rival web browsers in Europe." Great opening line! But they get the story wrong. Woefully wrong! Just the opposite is happening. Microsoft has moved from the browser Web application to the Web itself. It's the platform stupid!!! No one understands platform better than Microsoft. Control the platform's base formats, protocols, interfaces and internal messaging system, and you control all applications, services and devices using that platform. The problem for Microsoft has been that the Web is a platform used by all, but owned by none. It's based on open standards that no one owns or controls. So as the Web evolves into a universal platform for converged communications, content and collaborative computing, Microsoft was facing the one fate every monopolist fears - having to compete on a level playing field! While it took them well over ten years to come up with a counter strategy and effective implementation, Microsoft has finally achieved the impossible. They have carved out a huge section of the Open Web for their proprietary and exclusive use.
- - By Gary Edwards
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
OpenWeb 12/04/2009 (a.m.)
As Google Backs Away From A Plug-in, Microsoft Rushes Towards One - washingtonpost.com
I 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. Again, the problem here is that not only does Microsoft control this, but it requires a plug-in to use. Sure, they've made the plug-in available to most browsers, including the ones by rivals Google and Apple, but it's still a plug-in. It's something that's going to stop everyone from seeing the same web no matter which browser they use. This has of course long been an issue with Microsoft. Despite a clear shift within the rest of the industry toward web standards, Microsoft long played difficult with its Internet Explorer browser. They could afford to, and maybe you could even argue that it was in their interest to, because they were so dominant. It was only when a standards-based browser, Mozilla's Firefox, started biting off significant chunks of IE's market share that Microsoft shifted their position to play more nicely with standards.
- - By Gary Edwards
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
OpenWeb 12/03/2009 (a.m.)
Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] | Technology | Los Angeles Times
As 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 geolocation APIs, are being incorporated into the HTML5 spec as an open standard supported across browsers, and see that as the logical next step for developers looking to include these features in their websites," wrote a Google spokesman in an e-mail.
That's great, but HTML5 isn't ready yet, and commercially available browsers don't support it.
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Future of the Web 12/03/2009 (a.m.)
Saturday, October 17, 2009
OpenWeb 10/18/2009 (a.m.)
Gray Matter : Open XML and the SharePoint Conference
excerpt: 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 documents or for other automation tasks. In reality Word isn't built to do that on a large scale, it is better to work directly against the document rather than via the application whenever possible. The Open XML SDK unlocks a "whole nuther" environment for document processing, and gets you out of the business of scripting client apps on servers to do the work of a true server application (not to mention the licensing problems created by installing Office on a server). comment: Gray makes a very important point here. The dominance of the desktop based MSOffice Productivity Environment was largely based the embedded logic driving "in-process" documents that was application and platform (Win32 API) specific. Tear open any of these workgroup-workflow oriented compound documents and you find application specific scripts, macros, OLE, data bindings, security settings and other application specific settings. These internal components are certain to break whenever these highly interactive and "live" compound documents are converted to another format, or application use. This is how MSOffice documents and the business processes they represent become "bound" to the MSOffice Productivity Environment. What Gray is pointing to here is that Microsoft is moving the legacy Productivity Environment to an MSWeb based center where OpenXML, Silverlight, CAML, XAML and a number of other .NET-WPF technologies become the workgroup drivers. The key applications for the MS WebStack are Exchange/SharePoint/SQL Server. To make this move, documents had to be separated from the legacy desktop Productivity Environment settings. Note that OpenXML is the only document format supported by MS Web Apps (Live)! The MSWeb does not support HTML5 documents.
- - By Gary Edwards
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Future of the Web 10/11/2009 (a.m.)
Friday, October 09, 2009
OpenWeb 10/10/2009 (a.m.)
Google Cloudboard - Moving the Point of Assembly
Google 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~
- - By Gary Edwards
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
OpenWeb 09/23/2009 (a.m.)
Zoho's Next Big Thing | ge TalkBack on ZDNet
Moving 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 productivity apps so deeply into end user information that the binding of business processes to the MOPE is proving near impossible to break. Even for years after the fact. A business ecosystem for client/server was born back in the early 90's, with Microsoft continuing on to own entirely the client side of the equation.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
OpenWeb 09/07/2009 (a.m.)
AppleInsider | Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support
Apple 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 upon Microsoft's client software, weakening Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple's expense. More importantly, Apple is providing its users with additional options that benefit both Mac users and the open source community. In the software business, Microsoft has long known the importance of owning the client end. It worked hard to displace Netscape's web browser in the late 90s, not because there was any money to be made in giving away browser clients, but because it knew that whoever controlled the client could set up proprietary demands for a specific web server. That's what Netscape had worked to do as it gave away its web browser in hopes that it could make money selling Netscape web servers; Microsoft first took control of the client with Internet Explorer and then began tying its IE client to its own IIS on the server side with features that gave companies reasons to buy all of their server software from Microsoft. As Apple takes over the client end of Exchange, it similarly gains market leverage. First and foremost, the move allows Apple to improve the Exchange experience of Mac users so that business users have no reason not to buy Macs. Secondly, it gives Apple a client audience to market its own server solutions, including MobileMe to individual users and Snow Leopard Server to organizations. In concert with providing Exchange Server support, Apple is also delivering integrated support for its own Exchange alternatives in both MobileMe and with Snow Leopard Server's improved Dovecot email services, Address Book Server, iCal Server, the new Mobile Access secure gateway, and its included Push Notification Server.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Open Web group favorite links are here.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Future of the Web 08/30/2009 (a.m.)
Using an NAS for Centrally Managing Your Media
There 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.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of Future of the Web group favorite links are here.
Monday, August 10, 2009
OpenWeb 08/10/2009 (p.m.)
HuffingtonPost CTO to speak on Enterprise MySQL
HuffingtonPost CTO to speak on Enterprise MySQL: Heavy-Traffic Management on Aug. 11 at the NYC MySQL Group http://www.meetup.com/mysqlnyc/calendar/10930810/
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
OpenWeb 07/26/2009 (p.m.)
IT Management Conference & Expo in NYC Oct.14-16
http://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...
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