Posts Tagged with ‘web-apps’

Toolgether is one of the companies launching today at the DEMOfall conference. Today is the private beta launch date for the company so we should probably be careful in our assessments of its usefulness and future but so far the future looks bright enough to me.
So Toolgether serves as a marketplace for anyone to find widgets and web applications (called tools here) in one convenient place for future use on a website or a blog. It may sound a lot [...]

The line between online and desktop applications seems to be blurring all the time. We want office apps online to share them, but we want to bring them back down to the desktop for offline use, never mind that's where the functionality started in the first place. We like Twitter and FriendFeed, but we want to be able to use an AIR app rather than a Web interface. Such is the best explanation I can come up with PodiPodi, a [...]

I am an open-source addict. I have a totally legal machine, yet I run no big commercial software on my machine other than what came installed. Most of it is open-source or shareware or indie software I've trialed and paid for, and the rest of the apps I use are online apps. However, I'm not a huge fan of the presentation software in NeoOffice, and when my husband sent me a link to 280 Slides, I had to give it [...]

Some of you may remember a Mozilla tool released last October known as Prism. This prototype-stage software, originally released only for Windows, showed Firefox users where the evolution of web apps was headed; towards site-specific browsers (SSBs).
Although a Mac version was eventually released (as well as a Linux one), Prism's cross-platform intentions don't exactly make for a native-feel when run within Mac OS X. Now, to provide a more seamless desktop experience with SSBs for Mac users, Todd Ditchendorf [...]

By now you've likely all heard plenty about the iPhone. Too much, even. Since the start of summer we’ve seen both the mainstream press and the blogosphere harp incessantly about Apple’s invention - its technological advantages, the seeming unrivaled grace with which it functions, or those specially-concocted websites and applications that have risen to public view (i.e., Facebook, Digg, Meebo, etc.) over the past few months. Just last evening Google quietly introduced an updated iPhone-friendly interface for a wide [...]

Last month, the world registered a rather noticeable rumbling made at a technology conference in Bangalore. A rumbling having to do with the development of India?s own silicon-based industry. A rumbling in the way of a collective challenge posed by influentials in attendance at the gathering.
The challenge was a simple one, but no doubt momentous, too. It was, in effect, to spur technological growth in cities and towns all over India from a current point of $1bn gross revenue [...]

Facebook’s ploy to allow advertisers to target the site’s users through personalized marketing tactics might be a drive by the social networking giant “to earn big money,” but there’s a crucial component to site’s planned advertising mechanism that might just inhibit Facebook from getting to that place - the place where it gets mega rich, and where its presumed valuation starts to make a bitty-bit of sense.
That crucial component? Its user base. You know, all the college kids, the [...]

Google topped $700 yesterday afternoon. (As of 10:42AM EST today, it’s still there.) What a climber, eh?
And I’m sure many of you (if not all) know just why it managed to do so. It’s all because of a successive developments the company’s revealed that are just oh so chock full o’ good news.
There was the revelation delivered yesterday of plans to infiltrate get friendly with a great many social-minded Web businesses – and vice versa. And now it’s been [...]

Slowly, but surely, people seem to be performing more and more tasks through the use of online web applications rather than with traditional desktop software.
For this reason, Mozilla Labs announced yesterday that it will be launching new experiments that aim to seal the gap between the desktop and web apps" as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur."
The first application to surface from these experiments is Prism, formerly known as WebRunner, which is designed to [...]