Redefining Reading With Flex
Some carry the notion that the habit of reading, especially of books, has dwindled over the last decade. If the number of words or the kilobytes of text read by us online is tracked – text in email and IM, RSS feeds, occasional interesting links, online news, e-books and e-zines – it would far exceed [...]
Resurrection of AIR App Nomee
Nomee is an AIR app that attempts to be a one-stop-shop for all social networking. Similar to Skimmer, I initially thought. Back in April when it had entered public beta, I was unimpressed. The concept of Nomee cards was quite confusing and the need to explicitly share cards with friends soured the experience. Three months [...]
Another Step Towards Deep Thought
I have been reading about Wolfram|Alpha here and there every now and then but never gave it the attention it deserved until now. For the similarly uninitiated, what is Wolfram Alpha? Ask it yourself. Wolfram|Alpha is a self-aware computational knowledge engine, which is to say that it computes based on the knowledge it already has [...]
Spinning Down the Web Squared
Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper called Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On as a warm up before the Web 2.0 Summit which is to take place in October. The paper is a must read for all web savvy, and all those who care about the directions in which the world [...]
Rounding Up The Microsoft-Yahoo! Week
Adobe released a minor update of Adobe AIR, version 1.5.2, which includes some reliability, compatibility and security related bug fixes.
Having had enough with the bullying, Aral Balkan is taking some serious steps to fight Sys-Con. A minor victory already. Bravo! He seeks our help and I request you on his behalf. I am reluctant to [...]
Ideal Mechanism to Communicate and Collaborate
Joerg Beckert of Adobe Wave raised an interesting question in a comment: What is the ideal mechanism to communicate and collaborate? This is the million dollar question that a lot of people are trying to answer.
Keeping technology aside and considering what the user wants, Joerg himself has a list and the keywords are: filter, prioritize, [...]
Didn’t Get Adobe Wave
Joerg Beckert let us know that a public beta version of Adobe Wave is now available on Adobe Labs. I tried it and didn’t get the point. The FAQ on the home page says:
Adobe Wave is an Adobe AIR application that lets you get notifications from the websites you care about. It displays a desktop [...]
Rounding Up Last Week of Great Posts
Jens made great points about how Adobe’s PR maxes out during MAX conferences and creates a vacuum for itself outside of it. I vaguely remember Cocomo, now AFCS, but Adobe Wave? A meme of Google Wave strikes my mind before each time I think of even Happy Dent Wave. Yes, everybody can take a leaf [...]
Ulitzer the Unstoppable Ugly Side of Sys-Con
Regular readers may remember a previous post introducing Ulitzer as the ugly side of media empire Sys-Con. If you haven’t read it, I urge you to do it now. Ulitzer was launched amidst much fanfare about four months ago with “over 6000 authors”, paid them “200% ad sense revenue”, all of which turned out to [...]
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