Posts Tagged with ‘online-applications’

I sometimes have a strange feeling that a majority of new web applications that are launched daily are mostly launched for bloggers to write initial reviews, create some buzz and bring a handful of early adapters to the application. And only a select few apps actually get visibility among mainstream users, those that are actually supposed to create the community, share content and participate in various activities on this or that website.
Sure, the best Web 2.0 products eventually reach [...]

I'll be perfectly honest; I hate Google Docs. From the moment I first set eyes on Google Docs, I knew they were going to launch some sort of fee-based service, because I can't remember the last time I saw a web service so completely hobbled for regular users. The spreadsheets are slow. Functionality is limited. But it's attached to the Google name and has a built-in audience, and, let's face it, there haven't been any products released that are [...]

Africa is a continent with areas experiencing incredible turmoil and others undergoing economic expansion never seen before. The second most populous contiguous group of nations in the world, it is a land populated by a thousands languages ? some believe over two thousand are spoken in total. A collection of economic, cultural, social, and ecological conditions, Africa is witnessing the worst of the worst in terms of famine, disease, warfare, and genocide, but record GDPs are a regular sight as well. [...]