Tech Crunch has an article about new plans for embedding new functionality into the browser. Actually both Google and Mozilla are working on putting “web intents” into their browsers. Today, Google has announced that it’s planning to integrate Web Intents into Chrome. The news comes on the heels of Mozilla’s announcement last month that it […]
Buzz+failure=Google+
BusinessWeek has a really nice article explaining Google+. There are a lot of articles about Google+ and how to use it. It is intriguing in the BW article about how Google has struggled with social through purchases and organic builds. Each one has resulted in what some call “catastrophic failure” to “mis-fires”. I am not […]
Google+ – an attack on IBM, Microsoft, Jive
TopTechNews has an interesting article about how or IF Google+ will be a direct competitor to the likes of IBM Connections, Microsoft SharePoint and Jive. They make some decent points but I think for true enterprises it will little affect unless there is a push to take non-mission critical applications off-premise and they are reviewing […]
Google Tests New Results Page
Mashable had an interesting article on some experimentation that Google was performing on how they were going to display the results of their search results. Oddly this looked very familiar. This segmentation of the search results has somewhat been a part of the Google results UI for a few years and has been slowly evolving. […]
Google Owning Java?
Many of you have heard about the Oracle lawsuit against Google’s use of Java. Server Side has an interesting take on where this is headed. A win-win situation It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved. Google gets to put an end to the lawsuit craziness simply by using their deep pockets to buy their way […]
OCS – Integration with Google, IBM, Jabber and more
Good news: OCS can now federate with lots of other vendors, including Google and IBM Sametime. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/oct09/10-01ucinterop.mspx This is great news for the UC world in general. More info to follow on how it actually works in production…