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Year: 2005

More on Sun/Google from Gartner

Gartner presents a quick topical analysis of the Sun/Google partnership along with a few plugs for some other AJAX apps. Interestingly, Gartner sees an 80% probability that IT Departments will begin to adopt these lightweight web-based apps to supplement or […]

Barbarians at the Gates?

Microsoft is publicly responding to the Google/Sun deal with typical confidence, stating that the Office suite is not threatened by OpenOffice and that they don’t envision future web-based Office software (neither does Google, evidently). Microsoft believes that with enhancements to […]

What is it?

Web 2.0 that is. I have to agree with O’Reilly’s point that Web 2.0 sounds like a marketing buzzword being used by a lot of companies to describe their wares without really knowing what it means. Since he helped coin […]

Life of O’Reilly

More about Web 2.0 and the “architecture of participation.” After reading this piece, maybe you’ll think that Tim O’Reilly is a little out there. Maybe you already did. I can’t argue too much with someone who has built a high […]

SkypeBay

Steven Levy from Newsweek checks in with his take on the eBay purchase of Skype. He claims that the purchase validates the idea that the internet is soon to contain all sorts of embedded voice applications. What he doesn’t say […]

Google TV

Check it out. Google is broadcasting the new Chris Rock UPN show, Everybody Hates Chris via “streamcast” over the next four days. The shots over the bow of old fashined television are increasing rapidly.