Posts Tagged with ‘Mac’

The never-ending competition story between Apple and Microsoft is always a funny thing to watch - they exchange biting words constantly and the entire blogosphere is invariably ready to discuss who is more successful in the latest example - Apple or Microsoft. What’s more, consumers often make their buying decision when choosing between a Mac and a PC based on what they hear both companies saying about the competitor - be it in ads or in interviews. Today we have [...]

Though not quite of the same vein as an earlier post on Nimbuzz, I stumbled across an example of a company looking to bring Mac integration to its product, which contrasts the rather limited nature of the Nimbuzz social platform .  ShowMyPC, classically known as Windows-specific software, has just been updated to allow users of Apple's popular operating system OS X to use the program as well, according to PR Web .
ShowMyPC is a program that allows users to [...]

Anyone who waded into the comment section of my DimDim review noted a mini-debate began about my feelings about the service. Mainly, why I felt that its current lack of support for Mac and Linux users was a deal-breaker.
Web 2.0 has been all about people and web apps. Conversation and creating accessible apps for sharing and conversing and socializing. so why is it important that everything be non-platform specific?
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster claims that, if you back out purchases [...]

I downloaded Net4Mac this weekend to see what it was all about. As a long time Mac user (there is still a working Apple IIe kicking around my parents' house) and social web writer, I was excited to see a network of fellow Apple heads. With high hopes that the other users on the network would not be the kind of Apple user everyone hates (the cult-like unquestioning “followers” that turn so many off of switching from Windows to Mac), [...]

Gmail has been both savior and demon for me. As the person who regularly gets the “you are over your email quota” emails on the free email account provided by my ISP, Gmail lets me go months without ever having to think about cleaning out my inbox. Of course, that means I go months without ever weeding through all the emails in there, and whether I hit a storage ceiling or not, it leads to one huge mess.
Gmail has an [...]

Gamers have been waiting for more than two years for Spore, the release from Sims creator Will Wright that has been rumored to be vaporware. With a final release date given as September 7, 2008, the wait finally has an end date. But what does Spore have to do with Web 2.0?
Spore will be the first game released that not only has social networking capabilities, but also takes advantage of existing Web 2.0 technologies from outside the EA umbrella. [...]

If some of the latest funding news is any indication, widgets are the newest must-have for every content-driven site as well as Web 2.0 apps. Widgetbox allows users to create their own widgets, which can then be used on blogs and other web pages for everything from highlighting the RSS feed of another blog to running games in a sidebar.
And while widgets are the darlings of Web 2.0 companies from MyBlogLog to Flickr, even old-school companies are jumping on the [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only fitting to follow convention here and offer up a few wise words in anticipation of suspected things to come in the wide world of Web [...]

Occasionally, I get really excited reading my news feeds. I love writing about tech because tech is what I'm reading and ranting about half the time anyway, but one of the downsides to covering Web 2.0 is that you end up registering at far more sites than you will ever be able to use on a regular basis. Inevitably, you whittle down your number of regular visits, but there are always sites that get left behind, and people you may [...]