This week we saw some great new features in Google+. Most of what’s new is to Hangouts. Search – First is the one everyone has been waiting for and that’s search. When Plus first came everyone said, “Are you kidding me no search? It’s Google for Christ sake!” Now it’s here. It is very well [...]
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Kindle Web App
Posted: August 27, 2011 in Web 2.0Tags: Amazon, Chrome, HTML5, Kindle, reader, web 2.0
Amazon has releast a new HTML5 Kindle app for Chrome and Safari. Now you don’t have to buy a Kindle reader or get eye-strain reading on your phone. You can read books right inside your web browser on your computer. Amazon maked this web application to get around Apple’s wanting a huge percentage of their [...]
The war to be the best streaming music site is on. In April the announcement of Amazon’s Cloud Player and last month Google’s cloud based music service Beta called Google Music. I sign up for Cloud Player. I also requested an invitation to the Google service last month and just got the invitation today and [...]
Everything On The Web
Posted: May 13, 2011 in GoogleTags: cloud, cloud-computing, Internet, web, web 2.0, web apps
Google has just announced the new Chromebooks to being made by Samsung and Acer. They’ll be sold by Amazon and Best Buy beginning June 15th. The idea behind these computers is everything on the web. Use Gmail instead of Outlook, use Google Docs or Windows Live Office. Watch video on YouTube or Vimeo. Even watch TV [...]
WordPress.com Better Deal
Posted: May 13, 2011 in Web 2.0Tags: blog, blogging, Internet, web, web 2.0, webpage, website, Wordpress
I just moved this blog to Wordpess.com form my Godaddy hosting on WordPress software. WordPress.com is like the Energizer bunny. It keeps going and going with little effort by the user. WordPress.com takes care of the software and the network. You take care of the content. No administrating of the software or the database.