Archive for March, 2008

Up until now IBM has been seen as weak in the online marketplace. This is in spite of investments in companies like Linux, Apache and Eclipse. With its financial backing of EnterpriseDB open source it has declared its intent to finally create a more substantial online presence, and will go head to head with Sun [...]

I've been ill now for about a week with some plague that my children brought home from school. As a result, I've spent more time unable to concentrate on anything for long periods of time, but when I stumbled upon a launch announcement at for The Glass Bead Network, it consumed the better part of [...]

In a move that seems somewhat delayed on Adobe's part, given the amount of competing web-based services already available, the beta release of Adobe Photoshop Express has been publicly launched. Despite carrying the same name as the legendary digital image editing software, Photoshop Express is a free service that is more of a cross between [...]

No sooner does a social media app take off than new ways of using said app to recreate cliques follow. Whether it's blogs or Twitter or FriendFeed, it seems there has to be a group of cool kids, and one of the not-so-cool kids. Going in reverse order, there is already a pruning being done [...]

Since last November, Comcast's efforts to free up valuable bandwidth among its users by banning and preventing access to BitTorrent traffic has proved about as successful as the RIAA reign of terror on the realm of P2P sharing. BitTorrent is here to stay and, judging from the outcome of the Napster drama from as far [...]

In the time since Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine popularized the term crowdsourcing, the 'wisdom of crowds' has been implemented in several varying ways across the web resulting in virtually eliminated “cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.” Digg and StumbleUpon are two examples of crowd wisdom where most of the labor is provided [...]

Google is well known for its comprehensive Google Analytics stat tracking program. It has now begun to apply its own stat tracking power to its new acquisition, YouTube. Today saw the launch of a stat tracking metric on YouTube videos. The product, operating separately from Google Analytics, is called YouTube Insight. It is offering a [...]

Google has been eyeing the white space on your television with an eye to using it for WiFi. For most people, you don't even notice any unused channels in this digital age, but they are there. To repurpose these open spaces for WiFi access would be a huge step toward true nationwide connectivity. Why is [...]

We reviewed LongJump here some time ago, and I continue to be impressed with CEO Pankaj Malviya and his approach to his product. He has been continuously releasing new feature sets since his product launch, making it more and more useful for his user base. He also remains very accessible and willing to discuss his [...]