Google has announced that it is closing down or stopping development of several services. This announcement indicate the intent was to concentrate on fewer services. I am assuming this narrower focus is related to the down turn in the economy. The one tool on the list that I have used was Google Notebook. I became [...]
I am guessing most readers have no idea what HyperCard is (actually was). For many of us, HyperCard was the beginning of many things. It was the beginning of hypermedia and multimedia authoring. It was often the beginning of scripting. HyperCard was very powerful. Perhaps you have heard of the graphics-intensive game Myst – originally [...]
The available options for doing traditional desktop applications online has expanded again. Adobe (Acrobat.com) recently allowed access to a suite of services including Buzzword (word processing) and ConnectNow (online conferencing and white board). Our distance education ventures at UND use Adobe Connect so it is interesting to see a similar free product with the same [...]
Adobe has brought its expertise in digital image editing to “the cloud”. It now offers a browser-based application – Photoshop Express. The service not only provides powerful image editing capabilities, but also the opportunity to store up to 2 GB worth of images. This screen shot may give you some feel for the tools – [...]
I continue to run across impressive web applications. Web application is a new term for me, but I think this is an appropriate term to describe applications stored on a remote server run over the Internet using a browser. The latest find is the suite of resources made available by Zoho. Exploring the growing collection [...]
Ebrahim Ezzy outlines how he sees the coming competition between web-based apps (e.g., Writely, Google Spreadsheet) and what he describes as web-expanded desktop apps. As I understand this second category, he is describing the effort of the companies who provide commercial applications to offer web options from within these programs (e.g., blogging from MicroSoft Word). [...]
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Posted 15 September 2006
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Google appears to bundling several of their apps (gmail, calendar, chat) and promoting them to educational institutions. If I understand the promotion, it appears that institutions are allowed to create an interface that would feature the school logo, etc. as a way to “brand” the site for the school. The sites will feature the familiar [...]
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