Mark Fletcher builds software, that’s just what he does. He may have sold the system that became Yahoo Groups for $400 million, and then made millions selling Bloglines to Ask.com as well, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop making software. And it’s not just any software he makes, either. Those two projects changed millions of peoples’ lives.
Fletcher will unveil his newest creation, a lightweight group communication tool called SnapGroups. You probably going to like it a lot: it’s easy, it’s clear, it’s got good social design and it’s real time. Check out the screenshots below …
Google looks to be following up the addition of its Google Chart Tools with a neat addition to Google Labs – the Public Data Explorer.
The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab’s page, is to make “large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate”.
Google, with its access to an immense assortment of information, is in the perfect position to help us with ways to display this information …
One of the biggest parts of Microsoft’s keynote back in Barcelona, during Mobile World Congress, was the fact that Windows Phone 7 Series would finally do what everyone had been wishing for: integrate Xbox LIVE. They did show a couple screens of the hubs and subsequent tiles, and what it would all look like by the time this holiday season rolls around, but we were missing the most important part. We needed to see it in action. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that time has come. But, what we’ve been presented with has taken things to a whole new level …
Social Networking site Facebook is now offering its users the opportunity to share cash with each other, real cash that is.
You can send and receive small payments via a Facebook application called Buxter and the company behind Buxter that will process the transactions is online payments company ClickandBuy …
Hulu has lost Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” in a dispute with the network over almighty advertising revenue — but the real implications could be far more reaching than a loss of popular content. Hulu’s days as a destination for free online video may be numbered.
The once-groundbreaking video-on-demand website may not be able to run on pre-roll ads alone, which don’t generate as much revenue as broadcast commercials. And the obvious alternative — charging subscription or pay-per-view fees to viewers — is likely to simply drive them back to live TV or DVR use …
The move to virturalization leaves stone is being left unturned. It touched the public network via EC2 (and now a host of hosts) it formed the Cloud and fused a new generation of the Internet. Service orientated also hits the data centers and this means things like switches, servers, and disk.
At the core of the movement of virtualization movement is freedom of the physical environment. Optimize hardware performance and set the workload free. In the process of doing this, a promise of cost savings has set a off a storm in re-factoring the data center.
This is the first in a series of posts taking a look at areas of the data center and how an openness strategy become a driver for winning customers by bringing costs down …
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Much of the wonders of modern technology afford us greater control over our lives or so it would seem. Vehicle tracking is one example where technology is giving greater control to some and taking away freedom for others.
Businesses that run fleets of vehicles are increasingly using vehicle tracking systems to gain greater control over their fleets of vehicles and more importantly the people drive them. This does have its positives for the workers but it also infringes on privacy.
That said vehicle tracking is here to stay and it is something that we will have to learn to live with and tracking you while you are working is not that much of an infringement on your privacy. But what is an infringement on your privacy is if governments start using vehicle tracking to keep tabs on everyone in a vehicle. This is not something that will happen soon, but it is a possibility in the future. It will enable them to catch villains more easily and stop people from avoiding car tax and MOTs etc. But the problem is where does it stop.
Another use for GPS tracking is to lower insurance premiums. Stolen vehicle tracking is now being fitted on vehicles for personal use. This increases your chances of recovering the vehicle if it is burgled.
In a move that might rewrite the entire search market, Google is rumored to be creating a system that will let allow web publishers to submit content to Google for search indexing in real-time.
This of course follows the introduction of PubSubHubBub by Google, a tool to move syndicated content in real-time to aggregators. PubSubHubBub has become a hit among publishers looking to get their information into the market as quickly as possible …
It looks like Google has decided against releasing new iPhone apps for the time being and has focused most of its mobile development efforts on web apps instead. While the Buzz web app is very good, however, it can’t quite rival the speed and comfort of using a native iPhone app. Fiam’s Buzzie is the first Buzz app for the iPhone ($1.99 – iTunes link) and even though it is still missing some features …
