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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’
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 [...]
Teamviewer
Posted: May 29, 2011 in SoftwareTags: computer, remote, remote access, Software, Teamviewer, web, web 2.0
This weekend I tried Teamviewer a free remote access program. There are other remote access programs and some even work better than Teamviewer but the two best things about Teamviewer is it works cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux and many mobile devices) and Teamviewer is free. Like all remote access, controlling the remote computer is a [...]
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.
YouTube Founders Aquire Delicious
Posted: April 28, 2011 in Web 2.0Tags: bookmarks, Internet, web 2.0
I just found out that Delicious my favorite social bookmarks site has been purchase from Yahoo by the founders of YouTube Chad Hurley and Stave Chen. Yahoo annouced the acquasition by Hurley and Chen’s new company AVOS.
CloudPrint is a new service from Google that enables you to print via your home printer form anywhere in the world. You don’t even need to have a printer-driver installed. Google takes care of that.
Yahoo Selling Delicious
Posted: December 21, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: Delicious, web 2.0, web apps, Yahoo
“We’re selling Delicious not, not closing it!”, is what’s being reported today. Yahoo said it is not being shutdown at all. They’re just hoping someone will take it off their hands.
Wave Is Saved
Posted: November 26, 2010 in GoogleTags: Apache, Google, Software, Wave, web, web 2.0
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. [...]
