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Do interesting things with Google Apps

December 16, 2008 – 2:52 am

What else can developers do for Google Apps?  A open, flexible Facebook-style API for Apps would be awesome.  Imagine the community building the next generation office platform. Right now, developers outside of Google can write Gadgets that live on the outside layout areas of GMail. Google developers have done some interesting things with Labs – I [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in cloud, google apps, mashups, microsoft | Comments (0)

Yahoo Application Platform is out – anyone have good examples?

November 5, 2008 – 11:33 pm

The new Yahoo Application Platform was launched. This looks really cool.  I hope it is not all for naught.  Anyone using it?  Have any examples? Please post them! The support forum has few active topics. But I think there is potential here, even if Yahoo doesn’t exist in the same form 3 or 6 months [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in api, mashups, microsoft, yahoo | Comments (0)

Google.com – all your weather is in Celsius now. Boo.

November 2, 2008 – 11:22 am

Did Google arbitrarily decide we should start living on the Metric system?  The “OneBox for Weather” seems to think so: What is a Google OneBox?  The post here explains: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-onebox-results.html It is basically a shortcut search that returns a snippet of data, like weather or movietimes.  It is really cool when it works correctly.  However, [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in weather | Comments (2)

Microsoft’s Web 2.0 Developer Program Scores Points, but read the fine print

May 7, 2008 – 10:02 am

According to this headline, Microsoft has “edged” Google in Web 2.0 services for developers.  The report being discussed is from Evans Data, a technology research group. Microsoft  and eBay score unexpectedly high marks with developers, according to Evans. You decide, the  report can be found here.   But I can’t quite grasp what sort of [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in amazon, cloud, ebay, facebook, microsoft | Comments (0)

Bill Gates goes out on a limb, claims internet will change in next 10 years

May 7, 2008 – 12:09 am

Bill, Please run Microsoft again.  It needs you. I think you may need it too.   Your recent comments are not very helpful. I was kind of hoping for something more profound and insightful than  “We can expect that the variety and quality of software will accelerate in the years ahead.” You used to say [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in cloud, microsoft | Comments (0)
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