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Wave vs. the Web

Friday, August 7, 2009

Anil Dash has a good post up about Google Wave in which he expresses concerns about its wild ambition that are in some ways a developer-focused corollary to my concerns that it may be the first Google project that suffers from Microsoftian bloat. Anil: And people aren’t looking for a replacement for email, or instant messaging, or [...]

Share Your Moments With thisMoment

Monday, June 22, 2009

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GameSpot cofounder, former Yahoo executive, and old friend and colleague Vince Broady is launching a new site called thisMoment, and it’s going into public beta tonight. It’s an interesting site that’s part social network, part media sharing site, and part Facebook application, and I haven’t seen anything quite like it. thisMoment is about sharing moments in [...]

Technologizer: The Guardians of Knowledge?

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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Do you, our readers, think that Technologizer is resistant to innovation? Organized and efficient? Respectful of authority? Loyal team players? These were the analyses bestowed upon this blog when I punched the URL into Typealyzer, a free Web tool that reads the text of a blog (though any page will do, really) and determines a personality [...]

“Whatever Happened to…?”

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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Old computer products, like old soldiers, never die. They stay on the market–even though they haven’t been updated in eons. Or their names get slapped on new products–available only outside the U.S. Or obsessive fans refuse to accept that they’re obsolete–long after the rest of the world has moved on. For this story–which I hereby dedicate [...]

An Afterlife For Your Online Accounts

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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A startup called Legacy Locker is launching today with a weighty mission: helping folks plan ahead–really ahead, one hopes–by recording login info for online accounts such as e-mail, social network, and photo sharing sites, and specifying who should be given access to them in event of the Legacy Locker user’s death. Co-founder Jeremy Toeman told [...]

Zoho Writer Gets a New Look

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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AdventNet, the company behind the bulging Zoho suite of productivity services, was one of the first to build Web apps that looked and behaved like traditional software–and it’s gone on to play an industrious, intrepid David to Google’s Goliath in the world of online office suites. Today, it’s given its flagship Zoho Writer word processor [...]

10 Ways to Avoid Emergency When Your Web Services Disappear on You

Thursday, October 30, 2008

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Venture capitalists telling the startups they invest in that the good times are over. Big companies hunkering down. Layoffs, layoffs everywhere. You’d have to be a wild-eyed optimist not to come to the conclusion that a lot of cool consumer Web services aren’t going to close their doors before the economy turns around. And you’d have [...]