ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 24 2008 | google, it, microsoft, web2.0, Commentary
Fascinating discussion of the merits of Microsoft Office. A recent experience suggest to me that Microsoft will be beaten by "Good Enough" and not by "better or best".
Quoted: In his post Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office, Bernard Lunn argued that the collaboration features in Google Apps are good enough to take ...
- ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 05 2008 | google, it, internet, web2.0, Microsoft, Commentary
Google Sites is not going to take down Microsoft Sharepoint in the enterprise. But the Enterprise is not the only game in town. The SMB market has plenty of aspiring enterprises that may not be as wedded to traditional infrastructure. This is the soft underbelly in the battle with Microsoft.
Quoted: Google releases Google Sites in a whimsical attempt to destroy Microsoft SharePoint
ShareViewed: 6 Times - ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 03 2008 | microsoft, business, it, Yahoo, Commentary, google
The Microsoft bid doesn't bode well for consumers.
Quoted: Rob Koplowitz, Forrester Analyst, said he does not believe Microsoft is trying to buy specific technology from Yahoo to fill a hole needed to compete against Google's business offerings. "Microsoft wants more talent and capacity to follow its existing strategy".
ShareViewed: 4 Times - ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 04 2008 | data, google, it, commentary, Web2.0, identity, openid, oauth
Data portability is the next frontier. This is a really useful site.
Quoted: The open standards stack for the ubiquitous sharing and remixing of data
ShareViewed: 4 Times - ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 30 2007 | google, it, rss, Google Reader, Commentary
Steve Rubel is a real Google Ninja. Here he offers tips on making great use of Google Reader.
Quoted: Steve Rubel explores technology and its impact on marketing communications.
- ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2007 | data, it, google, Web2.0, Commentary.
The value of data increases as more data is collected. This is the secet behind Google's success.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 18 2007 | google, it, microsoft, commnetary
How market and technology disruption works. An article that is full of valuable insight.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 30 2007 | openid, google, it, Web2.0, OpenSocial, Commentary
Wow - OpenId support in Blogger. AOL will need to shift gears to stay in the OpenId race. This is really big news for OpenId advocates.
When you link this with Opensocial developments things start to get really interesting!
Quoted: Google's Blogger in Draft program that tests functionality for Google's popular Blogger blogging platform has rolled out OpenID support for comments. The new ...
ShareViewed: 8 Times - ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 27 2007 | it, web, google, Web2.0, social, Social Network, Commentary
Facebook is trampling all over our carefully constructed online personae.
I expect that many of the digerati have public and personal web personae. When a social network like Facebook comes along and connects the two - without permission - they have definitely over stepped the limits of what is acceptable.
Of course, this raises interesting questions for OpenSocial as well. Can this situation occur amongst OpenSocially connected sites?
- ekivemark | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 20 2007 | it, google, blogging, Commentary
TinyURL is a fabulous service. For Twitter users it is an essential companion. TinyURL recently had outage issues. This proved the value of the service. People definitely missed it.
Dave Winer, Takes a look at the problem and puts forward an excellent suggestion that is fully in keeping with the "non-stop" nature of the web. I agree with Dave, URL-shortening should be a standard feature of every web app. May be we will see the capbility rolled in to Apache. Who knows!
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