Archive for August, 2005

WebOS, The Offline Internet?

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Over at his blog, Jason Kottke has an interesting write up about the direction Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple could be headed, and he flags one significant hurdle.
“Actually, the biggest potential problems with all this are the massive security concerns (a Web browser that has access to data on your local hard drive?!!!??) and managing […]

Google Talk Redux

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

It appear that maybe I was wrong about Google Talk after all. According to this site Michael Robertson (or MP3.com Fame) has indicated that Google Talk will play nice with other networks after all. Hooray, Hooray!
Now I’m interested in seeing how available they make the API the VOIP aspect of the system. Certainly this is […]

A List Apart 4.0

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

One of the most worthwhile sites on the web has just went 4.0. Congratulations to Zeldman and the gang.
…and as if being THE site for “People who make websites” wasn’t enough, they went and built the new system in Ruby on Rails too, giving it that extra little bit of tasty, mmmmm.

Goggle Talk

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Well Google Talk was released today, and all I can say is it’s a very, very nice Jabber network client. The only problem for me, is that it’s a very nice JABBER NETWORK client. While I’m thrilled that there is now a 800lb gorilla pushing “the Linux of instant messaging”, is a messaging client that […]

Microsoft Bob… The Reunion Tour!

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

I just came across a post on digg.com titled “Microsoft Bob - The Failed Microsoft Product”. What’s funny is half the posters seem to have fond memories of the product.
Well back in the day I used to work at Computer City and the rep came around handing out MS Bob T-Shirts to anyone who would […]