Great post on CNET.com featuring comments by Microsoft’s platform evangelist Walid Abu-Hadba., who boldly states that he doesn’t “believe they have the assets or the organizational structure” to really support a general web platform, apparently referring to Adobe Flash, Flex, and Air efforts.
The article also mentions:
“For his part, Abu-Hadba said he doesn’t wonder if Silverlight [...]
I was just checking out Sterling and Jay’s podcast over at Internet Business Mastery.com, and it got me thinking about the intersection of digital media and personal choice.
Sometimes I ponder all of the technology and tools that we have available that connect us to everyone and everything around the globe. Twitter, couchsurfing.com, Elance, Linked In [...]
According to an Information Week article, apparently one of the benefits of the upcoming Google Chrome OS will be Google’s push to spread adoption of standards which allow for communication between the web layer (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and dekstop and mobile devices. For example, it’s possible that with HTML 5 and JavaScript, a web [...]
I just finished reading John C. Maxwell’s very well-written book, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, on the subjects of leadership, management, and most importantly – creative thinking. This book really “hit home” for me, given the current re-structuring (and indeed re-distribution) of wealth happening, and the sea change in the [...]
One of the very important considerations for customer-facing apps is the cleaning up of user input, before it goes into a database or interacts with other code within the network. This diminishes the options a malicious user has for entering destructive code.
The current platform which I am designing really needs a robust front-end “sanitizing” process [...]
Wow, it was just announced tonight, that Google will be releasing an operating system, called ‘Google Chrome OS’. It seems that Google is targeting the ‘netbook’ user base, which is the fastest growing sector of the PC market.
What a great idea! Computing power is fast becoming a commodity, and software resources that were once very [...]
Today it was announced that Pandora and other Internet radio stations have settled on a deal that would allow musician to be paid royalties from on-line play.
This is great news for not only musicians, but other artists and content creators who are distributing their creations online. I am a big fan of Internet radio (particularly [...]
Great video blog by Gary V (the Wine guy), one of the great on-line marketers of the age: