Tag Archives: web2.0

web apps should make documents shareable

I think the main feature web apps bring to users is “sharing”. The share button is the equivelent of copy-paste on the desktop. Copy-paste was (AFAIC) the main feature GUI brought to desktop over CLI. It created a whole culture, … read more →

social media and scale

Jason Calacanis is declaring facebook buncruptcy. It is something I always wondered about: how much can you scale social media? How many comments can an individual follow? How many emails can an individual read and respond to? How many friend … read more →

welcome safari to the “browser is the platform war”

So… Apple anounced yesterday the availability of Safari 3 (beta) for Windows. Why? Step back for a moment. We are in the begining of a “browser is the platform” war. Adobe has Apollo. Microsoft is pushing Silverlight. Mozilla has not … read more →

what could a Web2.0 virus look like?

What could a web2.0 virul look like? Here is my guess: – it will be written in Javascript – it will live inside Google Documents – when you open the infected document, the js will look up your Google contacts, … read more →

JotSpot is Google now.

Google has acquired Jotspot! I don’t know if they really “needed” JotSpot (which is a great company btw), or they wanted their people, or they just wanted eliminate someone else bought a great “web office app”, but this is *very* … read more →

Google Spreadsheets + World Cup 2006

Google Spreadsheets may not be as powerful as Excel, but there are some things that is much better for. Take for example our little intra-company predictions about the World Cup 2006. Originally, Achilleas created an Excel spreadsheet with all the … read more →

Google Spreadsheet hint.

If you are one of the lucky ones to receive a Google Spreadsheets invitation, you can spread the word by inviting your friends to edit one of your on-line spreadsheets. When they accept the invitation, they are automaticaly allowed to … read more →

Dynamic reading lists

After I wrote my del.icio.us as feed manager post, I realized that this is not a totaly new idea. It is what Dave Winer calls (dynamic) “Reading Lists”. Here are some interesting articles on reading lists, opml, etc: Raw » … read more →

Feedburner: 101 Flares

Feedburner, released today the FeedFlare API. It is actually an API that allows individual develpoers to create services that “adds flare” to a feed. This extra “flare” could be either an action (like “tag this post”) or additional information or … read more →

On Blogosphere Growth

The Technorati Weblog has an interesting article On Blogosphere Growth. It looks like Technorati’s index is doubling in size every 5.5 months! An other interesting mesure is the number of posts: … about 50.000 per hour. An other interesting point … read more →