Now that “cloud” computing is here, everybody is heaving a sigh of relief that they don’t have to buy, download, or install as much software. We’ll always need some, but isn’t it becoming a nice bonus that you can offload a lot of tasks to the platform of the Internet itself, and use them just [...]
It must be tough to be Yahoo! They’re trying harder because they’re always number two – and constantly having to fight to keep from being bought out by Microsoft. That’s when they’re not trying to keep from being dismantled from the inside by billionaire investor and self-proclaimed fanatic Carl Icahn. And of course, the rest [...]
Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of “tag that buzzword”. The biggest buzzword of 2008 is… “Cloud Computing”. You’ve been hearing about it, your boss is raving about it after a conversation with a sales rep, your engineers keep clucking it to each other, and all the bloggers won’t shut up about it. So, [...]
What with the concern over the proposed Internet filtering policy that is supposed to be put into place here in Australia, we thought this would be a good time to bring this subject up. Our point here is not to enable people to commit crimes, nor to say that they should commit crimes. Our [...]
“The web as a platform”. That’s the mantra you’ve been hearing a lot about, applied to cloud computing. The idea behind cloud computing is basically to take all the computer that you have in front of you and condense it down to an operating system running a web browser, with everything else coming through the [...]
Yipe! The panic is spreading all over the web, both within and without the land of Oz. This is happening because the Australian government is considering wide-scale Internet filtering, with no way to opt-out, for all web users. And it has nearly everyone concerned in an uproar. Just a few clips about what we’re talking [...]
When most people think of “software”, they think of (a) Microsoft, (b) Adobe, and (c) EA, Blizzard, or whatever company makes their favorite games. And there, their mental list ends. The fact is, with the exception of those three categories (include other large application markers like Corel in the Adobe category) we just listed, just [...]
We know, posting rules of etiquette on the Internet does no good. It is, after all, one big anarchy, and most of you will go off and do whatever you very well please, and thumb your nose at the nannies who don’t like it. But, well, we have this expression we call the “social web”, [...]
For our American friends across the ditch, as well as various other parts of the world, Halloween is coming up. So what better time to examine the spooky remains of former technology greats, whose limbs are still twitching when we thought we’d shotgunned them to the ground? Here’s a list of technologies that we could [...]
In case you webmasters out there haven’t noticed, more and more of your web audience is using a small-screen, hand-held device to visit your websites. Now, if we know anything about web designers (and we know several), we know that they tend to curl up, moan, and rock in their Aeron chairs whenever you tell [...]
