Loading ...MS/Yahoo versus Google
A Microsoft/Yahoo marriage? There’s something to contemplate …
From a Microsoft perspective, this really is all about Google. Microsoft’s Windows Live ecosystem, positioned as a Google-killer, simply hasn’t gained the traction Redmond would have hoped, not even simply in the search field — people still “Google” each other, they don’t “Windows Live Search” each other, even if every browser upgrade installs a Live Search box in the menu bar. (Tangentially, why did Yahoo never push its identity as a verb? You never hear of someone “Yahooing” information. Serious oversight.)
Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Dave Webb and filed under Web 2.0, messaging | 1 Comment »Add to: del.icio.us | Digg IT | Furl | Google | magnolia | StumbleIT | Wink | Yahoo! Technorati
Loading ...Google’s spectrum play
So Google will be a player in the upcoming 700 MHz U.S. wireless spectrum auction after all. Speculation’s been rife, but speculating’s easy, since Google guaranteed the Federal Communications Commission it’ll bid a minimum of $4.6 billion for a block of spectrum back in the summer.
The company has since announced a mobile development platform, Android, which wasn’t the branded mobile phone watchers were anticipating with bated breath, but still made you wonder: What are these people up to? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Dave Webb and filed under Future Technology, Web 2.0, cell, mobile, wireless | No Comments »Add to: del.icio.us | Digg IT | Furl | Google | magnolia | StumbleIT | Wink | Yahoo! Technorati
Loading ...Yahoo Pipefitting
Patrice-Guy Martin, editor of our French-language magazine Direction Informatique, alerted the rest of us to the beta mash-up engine Yahoo Pipes. Pipes is essential a design-your-own-newsfeed service, which allows you to pluck RSS, databases, search engines and the like, combine them, sort them, filter them, and customize a feed to your browser, which you can publish for others to use.
It. Is. Painfully. Easy. Once I’d convinced myself it really was that simple, I set up a pipe to scan four categories of Canada Newswire in about 90 seconds. I set up a job-scanning pipe feed for a friend in about 30 seconds.
Curious … Anybody out there mashed up a feed on Pipes? I’d like to see what you’re doing with it and examine the potential that I’ve only scratched the surface of.
Meanwhile, for entertainment value, here’s a video from DraftFCB showing how your average Second Life avatar would behave in the real world. Thanks to Paul Ferriss from Marketing Magazine for the link.
Posted on August 24th, 2007 by Dave Webb and filed under Web 2.0 | No Comments »Add to: del.icio.us | Digg IT | Furl | Google | magnolia | StumbleIT | Wink | Yahoo! Technorati
Loading ...Gourmet Coffee and Web video – a winning blend
By Joaquim P. Menezes -
The explosive potential of Web 2.0 tools to build brand and boost revenues was brought powerfully to my attention during a conversation I had with my colleague at IT World Canada, Jorge Umana.
Jorge and I take the same GO bus, and during our ride to the office he told me how social networking over the Web is working wonders for his family-run business.
Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Joaquim Menezes and filed under Computer Science, Web 2.0, messaging, social networking | 1 Comment »