Ted Ritzer: Tech4CommunicatorsFor anyone that has a job that involves using technology to communicate.(Untitled)- October 28, 2004 Google's Windows-Centric Stance. Google, one of first of the truly Web companies, is increasingly a Windows-Web company. Consider: In July, Google acquired Picasa, a digital photo management company. The application only runs on Windows PCs. Google's Desktop Search application, launched earlier this month, is Windows-only. Today, the company announced it had acquired keyhole, which does digital mapping in amazing ways. You guessed it: Windows or nothing. Actually, this is the same old story..http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/10/27.html#a3851 (Untitled)- October 28, 2004 iPod Photo is Alive. It lives: iPod Photo. Back in a minute with details. Lots of tasty details in this post, if you're coming in from a direct link. iPod Photo: First Details GizmodoGizmodohttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/10/27.html#a3848 (Untitled)- October 28, 2004 Yahoo, Adobe Team Up for New Web Services (AP). AP - Stepping up the heated battle of online search and services, Yahoo Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have joined forces to tap each others' customers and put Web search features into Adobe's popular Acrobat Reader software. Yahoo! News: Top Storieshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/10/27.html#a3847 (Untitled)- October 28, 2004 Google Desktop Outshines Windows' File-Search Capabilities (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Google is famed for its Web search engine, but over the past few years it has acquired a different role: Microsoft's No. 1 foreign aid donor. First, Google fixed some of Internet Explorer's worst defects with its Google Toolbar, a free add-in that blocks pop-up ads and provides a shortcut to (naturally) Google's search engine and an auto-fill option to complete Web forms. Now it has released...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/10/27.html#a3846 (Untitled)- October 25, 2004 Trying out FeedBurner Flickr. This weekend, I was trying to extend my web design skills, so I was crawling through the code of my friend Caterina's site (I've always admired her site design) and noticed that her RSS feed was linking out to FeedBurner. Then, just this morning, one of my colleagues asked me what I knew about FeedBurner, and I said, "Not much." All this after I had meaning to go back and look deeper into the Flickr FeedBurner announcement several weeks ago that slipped by while.http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/10/24.html#a3845 (Untitled)- October 25, 2004 Google Desktop Outshines Windows' File-Search Capabilities (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Google is famed for its Web search engine, but over the past few years it has acquired a different role: Microsoft's No. 1 foreign aid donor. First, Google fixed some of Internet Explorer's worst defects with its Google Toolbar, a free add-in that blocks pop-up ads and provides a shortcut to (naturally) Google's search engine and an auto-fill option to complete Web forms. Now it has released...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/10/24.html#a3843 (Untitled)- October 24, 2004 Zope 2.7.3. Application server for building web sites. Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/10/24.html#a3842 (Untitled)- October 24, 2004 More podcasting noise.... One of my favorite writers, Rory Blyth, takes on the podcasting hype and anti-hype. Meanwhile, Carl Franklin is starting another audio show, since his first one, .NET Rocks, was very successful. They are having a contest to figure out a tagline for the show, which is named "Mondays." In another post Carl defended podcasting. Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/10/24.html#a3841 |