Tag: Programming, AJAX, Perl & PHP

Writely again

Interesting news. Apparently Google is purchasing the Writely online wordprocessor. This surely will bring the AJAX/Web 2.0 hype machine to full volume.

Yes, we've been acquired by Google, and we're really excited about this for many, many reasons. But I can hear you saying, "I don't care why YOU'RE excited - I want to know how this change will impact ME!"

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Microsoft Online Services

Microsoft has bundled a lot of its online properties under the MSN banner.  Offerings include e-mail (Hotmail, Hotmail Plus and Outlook Live), IM and Blogging, Search, Internet Acess, Entertainment, and Mobile.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 is an online version of Microsoft's bloated Outlook desktop email product.  Hotmail Plus offers more in-box space and larger attachments.

Instant Messaging & Blogging offers MSN Messenger, and MSN Spaces.  In my opinion, MSN Spaces sucks balls.

I will not describe the others here.  Check them out yourself.

Web 2.0

The AJAX (aka web2.0) technologies are picking up steam. I have been hanging out at TechCrunch and I have been reading about some very cool technologies.

Online powerpoint style slide shows
Online Excel style spreadsheet

Someone has even started calling all this Office 2.0. Of course I think Zimbra is a better email solution than Gmail but all that may change now that Google is offering hosted mail to coporate users. Of course all of this new development requires new development tookits. Read all about these cool technologies over at SolutionWatch.