Tyler Whitaker's Infotech

Category: Web 2.0

  • Another Great WebOS Article

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    Richard MacManus with ZDNet posted another great article on the WebOS market, calling for Google or any one of the small startups in this space to become the next Linux. Wishful thinking you may ask? Maybe. There is clearly something here that is very interesting, but without a killer application to drive adoption it may…

  • The Internet as an OS vs. Virtual / Online Desktops

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    I’m been thinking a lot lately about Web 2.0, web services, and client / server applications moving online. And it occurred to me that Internet could be seen as one big operating system with the various components scattered through out cyberspace. The next new thing could be moving traditional local operating system services into the…

  • The SEOmoz.org Web 2.0 Awards

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    For those of you interested in the cutting edge of the Web 2.0 movement, check out the Web 2.0 Awards from SEOmoz.org. It provides a pretty good cross section of the types of solutions out there. My gut tells me that this is just the tip of the iceberg. With the rampant availability of high…

  • The Evolution of the Software Industry

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    Dan Farber wrote and interesting blog entry (ZDNet Between The Lines) recaping Software 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. He highlights some interesting themes in software industry and how we need to shift to a customer centric mentality. Gone are the days of charging customers maintenance fees to fix our own software. Gone are…

  • Online Calendar, Google Style

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    If you haven’t heard already, Google just released an online calendar web application. It has all of the slick interface items that you have come to expect from Google. But was makes this offering particularly interesting is the ability to share public and private calendars with your friends and co-workers in much the same way as…

  • Yahoo Messenger Adds VOIP

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    Yahoo has recently added VOIP (Voice over IP) capabilities to it’s Instant Messenger client. Now you can carry on world wide PC to PC voice calls for free. There are two interesting items to note from this announcement. 1) This brings VoIP further into the mainstream and thereby moving traditional pay per minute long distance closer to…

  • Amazon’s S3 Web Service – Online Hard Drive

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    It think we’ve hit a new milestone in the web’s development. Amazon.com has announced their Amazon S3 – Simple Storage Service. We now have low cost, “in the cloud” data storage. What does this mean to me? Web developers across the global can now offer online applications without needing to build the costly data storage…

  • Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

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    Have you ever wanted to earn a little extra money on the web? Amazon.com has a solution for you. It’s called Mechanical Turk. It’s a system where people answer simply questions for pennies. The questions range from your favorite books to whether a picture is of a pizza parlor or not. So I know you’re…

  • Landscape Management Article on Blogging

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    Just a quick note and link to my recent article on blogging in Landscape Management Magazine. Blogging is the newest way to connect with your employees. InfoTech: Blogging

  • Don’t Recycle, Freecycle

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    By now we all know that we need to recycle, save the world, etc. etc. So if you’re like me, you’ve got one more household chore with very little direct incentive other than an empty recycle bin in the garage. That’s where Freecycle.org comes in. It’s a new social concept being driven by the Internet. Basically it’s a…