The former project from Google called “Wave” may have been resurrected. The benefactor is the opensouce advocates the “Apache Software Foundation“. Apache is calling it WIAB (Wave In A box). You will be able to install Wave on a server of your own so you and your collaborators can work on projects together via Wave. [...]
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Wave Is Saved
Posted: November 26, 2010 in GoogleTags: Apache, Google, Software, Wave, web, web 2.0
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Readers In Browsers
Posted: November 19, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: browser, browsers, feed, feeds, reader, RSS, web 2.0, web browser
I found two great RSS readers in Firefox and Internet Exporer. I would not have known they were there but for doing what my father always called piddling around. I was looking at an RSS feed inside of Firefox. I always liked how useful Firefox was in viewing the content of a feed.
Google Wave Lives On, Sort Of?
Posted: September 3, 2010 in GoogleTags: Google, Software, Wave, web 2.0
Google has announced despite there recent demise of the Google app Wave they would now let it be open-source and allow anyone to run the application on a server of their own. This experience would not be the same as the original Google app. It will not be the same universal application experience as before. [...]
Edit Video Online
Posted: September 3, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: JayCut, video, video editing, web, web 2.0, web apps
JayCut is a an online video editor. You may ask, “Why would you use an online video editor?” The answer is for power. I have a relatively slow computer. Editing video does not require a powerful machine but rendering the video after editing requires an awful lot of computer (both CPU and RAM).
H.264 The Winner
Posted: August 29, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: CODEC, digital-media, H.264, media, Ogg Theora
Today MPEG LA announced that the H.264 CODEC will be royalty-free in perpetuity. What does this mean?
There was sad news this week. Google Wave is to be terminated. Google Wave is an online software application formerly developed by Google. It was described as “a new web application for real-time communication and collaboration”.
Add URL Shortener To Google Maps
Posted: July 11, 2010 in GoogleTags: app, Google, maps, URL sortener
It’s no long necessary to use a third party URL shortener because Google Maps has its own.
Windows Live Sync
Posted: July 10, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: essentials, Live, Microsoft, Skydrive, sync, synchronize, web 2.0, Windows
Windows Live Sync is a part of the Windows Live Essentials Beta. The old Live Sync would not sync to Skydrive, the new version will. There is one little problem. With a Skydrive account you get 25 GB of storage yet you can only sync 2GB. This seems silly to me. Is Microsoft afraid Skydrive [...]
Google Apps
Posted: June 24, 2010 in GoogleTags: apps, calender, Docs, Google, Google Docs, office, productivity, web 2.0, web apps
If your like many of my friends your running a small business, organization or school. You know you can’t afford to through money away on your IT management. You need a file server, MS Exchange server and lots of complicated software.
Today I deleted my Facebook account. Facebook really has a problem with privacy. It use to be the one thing great about it is that you could let only those people you know view information about you.
