Is Adobe Air going to follow a pdf like trend or die like the vhs

Just recently I watched a talk from Francisco Tolmasky at FOWA in which he briefly compared some technologies such as Air to a dvd/vhs combo. With all the hype around cloud computing it was a fair comment and got me thinking a little further.I currently am just about to start...

Friendster Announces Support for Facebook Apps

Long before Facebook, there was Friendster. A pioneer of online social networking, it suffered from outages and technical problems just as MySpace was picking up steam. Friendster corrected its errant path,...

iPhone apps: $30 million in 30 days

Everywhere I go I hear about people wanting an iPhone and indeed Apple has sold many many iPhones. According to CEO Steve Jobs, iPhone apps alone has brought in $30 million in sales. Very impressive indeed. And...

Wordscraper: Don't Call It Scrabulous! (Now with X-tra Bonus Analysis)

The tale of the tile continues... Scrabulous' developers have re-launched the app with a new look and new rules in order to pull an end-run around Hasbro's takedown order. But will it be enough? So far, it's hard...

Pirillo's iPhone App Page

Chris Pirillo has put together a great resource for those of you on the iPhone.  His site has a page that lets users rank their favorite apps.  Check it out.

Apple Sells One Million 3G iPhones in One Weekend

Last Friday's global launch of the 3G iPhone was plagued with problems but, the demand for Apple's latest products far outweighed the technical glitches and hiccups experienced by many customers.In just 72 hours,...

Savings windfall for firm that moved from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail

"Taylor Woodrow, a UK-based construction company, has switched its 1,800 employees' e-mail from Microsoft Outlook to enterprise Gmail. The company is also beginning to use other components of Google Apps, the suite of Web-based applications that includes, in addition to...

11 cool new apps for the iPhone

" With the release of the iPhone 2.0 software on Friday and the opening of the App Store -- where hundreds of third-party applications are now available -- Apple Inc.'s iPhone has taken a major leap toward becoming a premiere mobile platform. Since the iPhone's...

Lose the Blogger 15: 25+ Web Apps for Dieting & Getting in Shape

Baiadha.amir (now public group)MASHBLE BLOG :At least a couple of us here at Mashable are fighting to keep off the “Blogger 15.” So where do technology bloggers turn for help when trying to lose weight? Web apps, of course! We’ve put together a list of over 25 Web apps...

Bored With Web 2.0? Demand Change

Some interesting thoughts on the role of technology in making the world better. I disagree with a couple of Haque's contentions. Alot of money has been going into green technologies. According to Goldman Sachs investment increased from $400 billion in 2003 to $3 trillion in...

BBC Scares Everyone in the World off Facebook

Old media strikes back!"The BBC has been able set up a malicious application that can steal details of not only your information but the people you’re connected with. This is because in Facebook, applications...

ASC: Watching the Watchers

Another term for "behavioral profiling software" is "spyware", and the Anti-Spyware Coalition is having none of it: There is a gap between the promises of adware firms and the real-world behavior of their...

Email is So 2 Seconds Ago: ID-Based Conversations

So now they're talking about how email is old-school. Great. Just when I was getting used to pruning my inbox... ""E-mail has died away for a group of users. For the younger generation, they don't use e-mail," he...

Google Wiki Prepares To Launch

"Google may finally be preparing to re-launch wiki service Jotspot, nearly a year after it acquired the company."

BBC news chief gets Web 2.0 news from Facebook

Speaking at the World Editor's Forum in Capetown, South Africa (where NowPublic's CEO Leonard Brody is also giving a talk), Richard Sambrook, BBC's Global News Chief, admitted that when he really wants to know...

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