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The move by Google who is considered to be the leading mapping and location aware experts anywhere on the internet (except for the military and intelligence community maybe), and Mozilla have joined forces to take part in the Geode, an awareness add-on package that allows Firefox to display locational data along with Google’s maps. This may be their answer to Yahoo’s Fire Eagle project that resulted in the Geocoder API, allowing yahoo to be web aware. The partnership may be well-placed with Google’s extensive data centers and mapping data to go with it, and Firefox’s overall dominance of the browser market, its a mix of two good things that allows your browser to tell you where you are and possible where other people are. Read the rest of this entry »
The software giant from Redmond just can’t let Google take a way most of their market without at least some resistance and with that, they release Microsoft Office 14 set for release this coming 2010, a version of their world renowned Microsoft Office System that is still one of the most widely used software in the world to date. It comes with stripped down version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more, allowing people over the net to share their work online through the internet, Google Apps style. Microsoft has done an almost complete turnaround with it’s embracing of PHP that has surprised industry experts who regarded Microsoft as more of a proprietary software maker who shares nothing and buys everybody they step on. Read the rest of this entry »
The world has forever been changed with the advent of the social web and one other technology that has made finding friends where ever they are a breeze. New generation web apps like “Glympse“, allows people to share their whereabouts in real time, enters the email number of the people they have to meet at get real-time feeds on where they are and vice versa, even going as far as presenting estimated arrival times to your agreed meeting place and more. You get a page that has a map with your geo-location based on your smart-phone’s coordinates changing as you move through traffic making meeting as real as it can get. The nifty feature, the fed shuts down after a few a few hours leaving you and your friends to finish your drinks or go home and rest. Read the rest of this entry »
The ventures of Google who is one of the promoter of the shift into the cloud by being too over eager with the implementation. The initiation of several of Google’s applications that are bit by bit making cloud computing a reality have gotten some criticism due to their monopoly on the system. The concept of cloud computing can be compared in some sense to the implementation of distributed computing in commercial applications of past where specific users only got access to the apps they were allowed to use. The servers had all the programs and were responsible to distributing and administering the apps and databases. With cloud computing you get all the programs loaded into cyberspace along with the data and everybody who wants access gets it from virtual space, the information on the other hand jumps from server to server as they become available making the whole internet one large machine. Google has been getting hits first by it’s venture into the breakup of the Yahoo and Microsoft deal where the government decided that that would be a violation of the freedom of information for they would get control of over 80% of the search engine marker, the two being the two largest and most popular in the world.
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Greasemonkey, a Firefox customization tool popular among high-powered Web surfers, is coming to Google Chrome browser. Aaron Boodman, a Greasemonkey author and a Google programmer who’s active in the Gears project, contributed Greasemonkey support to Chrome, and the Google Operating System blog picked up on the change.At this stage, enabling Greasemonkey requires people to use a cutting-edge developer version of the open-source browser and to launch it with a “–enable-greasemonkey” option set.
Greasemonkey lets people run scripts that modify Web page appearance. For example, back when Google’s Gmail service lacked a “delete” button, people could add one by installing the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox then downloading a particular customization script. Google wants to improve the Greasemonkey support, for example by confining particular Greasemonkey scripts to particular Web pages and letting the browser update its scripts as it’s running.
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Creating web applications is as complex as writing a thesis paper or a dissertation. It does not only necessitate quite a tedious amount of effort to perfect the function of the program but also demands one stable thing from the user: internet association.
Whenever a program is being written, it takes several factors in deliberation but the most important of them is the user-interface. It is imperative that the application’s interface is easy to understand, lest it will not be used as it was intended to be so.
Using a atypical office text created raises an issue on standards compliance, moving the evasive issue of file partaking and association. What must be noticed is that these browser applications are used by accessing the internet through the remote servers. It is threatening however, for the document, if the connection is suddenly lost or interrupted. Chances are, the document being programmed online will be lost and inferior, irretrievable.
This kind of disadvantage poses a threat to the survival of the web applications, hence, companies such as Google have made preliminary solutions to this problem. However, for now, only prototypes have been developed to repress the threat raised by this problem. Just like so, Google has created Google Gears—a beta display place that aims to improve the usability of web applications.
The rate of evolution in the VoIP market would surely make Darwin’s head spin and the latest entry into this market would probably blow his mind. The recently-launched Ribbit company bills itself as “Silicon Valley’s First Phone Company.” Like Skype, Ribbit’s system supports softphones, but unlike Skype Ribbit isn’t a closed system. An interesting issue is that being based on Flash/Flex technology no installation is required as it is completely Web-based – an interesting and potentially powerful advantage over Skype.
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