I can’t help it, I’m facinated by Steve Gillmor’s stream of consciousness. As usual he ranges widely and predicts the future boldly. I agree with his thoughts on the iPhone. The chatter around the iPhone seems to assume that it’s no big deal twisting the giant telcos around your little finger. No one should underestimate their power. I’ll grant that they’re the biggest impediment to getting real bandwidth over a wire to our homes, and through the air everywhere else. They still believe that voice is a qualitatively different kind of data than text or sound. It’s all just ones and zeros and the more of them you can stuff through the tubes of the internet, the more interesting the possibilities become.
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Zoho releases new apps at an amazing clip. Now there’s Zoho DB. TechCrunch reviews. An online database viewable in a spreadsheet format, but with the capability to accept SQL queries in multiple formats. I keep looking for simple online solutions to small data sets. Maybe this is it.
The demo above is for Zoho creator. This must be one of the more successful examples of outsourcing code to India.
Comments closedFingers are used to typing “google” when the brain wants to find something. But the form of the results page is starting to innovate. Yahoo search has shown some new wrinkles. But it’s not the technology that tips usage one way or another, it’s what the fingers do independently of thought. If users start at my.yahoo.com, they’ll use yahoo search. If they start no where in particular, they’ll use google. But it’s good to see competition in this space. There may be a wrinkle that provides irresistable value. For instance, that’s what Mahalo is counting on.
Comments closedZeldman peeks under the covers at the Apple store and likes what he sees. It’s beautiful semantic mark up. The kind that developers say is impractical. Go ahead. View the source.
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