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Google unveils web-based OS

September 2, 2008

A prod­uct long rumored and whose very exis­tence was long denied by Google itself finally launched: the Google browser, aka. Google Chrome. There are a num­ber of things that are good and a few that leaves one scratch­ing his head but ulti­mately, it is very clear that Google is work­ing very hard to ensure that it can […]

Safari: Apple’s New Platform?

June 12, 2007

Yesterday’s announce­ment of Apple launch­ing it’s Safari web browser for the win­dow plat­form was a bit puz­zling and I wasn’t sure of what to make of it at first. So I decided to read more about it and then install it. Of course, day one is always amus­ing. First, it’s clear that the secu­rity claims are not fully […]

The iPhone is here

January 9, 2007

So it’s offi­cial: Apple now is a phone man­u­fac­turer. With the announce­ment of the Apple iPhone, we can now finally assess that new prod­uct and I have to say, color me impressed. The com­pany has man­aged to over­come a lot of the prob­lems sur­round­ing exist­ing mobile phones and cre­ated a device that is close to what geeks like myself […]

Google Accelerates Search

May 6, 2005

Google intro­duced a new tool called Web Accel­er­a­tor. While much will be made of the fears about the pri­vacy impli­ca­tions of that move, I per­son­ally believe that this move is one that is deeply rooted in the search mis­sion of the com­pany and will be seen as a gam­bit of the same size as the one taken by […]

Podcast Acceleration

April 27, 2005

Although I haven’t writ­ten about them, I’ve been qui­etly mon­i­tor­ing the pod­cast space. I am amazed by how quickly they’ve taken hold and today’s announce­ment by Infin­ity Broad­cast­ing that they were launch­ing KYOU Radio, a radio that’s dis­trib­ut­ing pod­casts seems to be the tip­ping point for that new tech­nol­ogy. For my read­ers who are not famil­iar with the […]

Modular by Design — Software

August 14, 2004

So far, we’ve talked about the impact of a mod­u­lar approach on exist­ing busi­ness mod­els out­side of the soft­ware indus­try. Today, we delve in on the indus­try most asso­ci­ated with mod­u­lar design: soft­ware. Cer­tain soft­ware com­pa­nies have been suf­fer­ing from the advance of mod­u­lar­ity in soft­ware design. The main one, to date, has been Microsoft with […]

Usability 101: Satisfaction

June 26, 2003

Today, we con­tinue the Usabil­ity 101 series by explor­ing the con­cept of sat­is­fac­tion. I can’t get no… sat­is­fac­tion As much as we’d like it to, users are not using our soft­ware because of love for devel­op­ers. They are using it to accom­plish a task. How sat­is­fied they are with usabil­ity of the soft­ware pack­age they use […]

Usability Bazaar

June 12, 2003

Over the past few days, I’ve been doing some research for an easy-to-use web-based open-sourced con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem. The basic sys­tem needs to be usable by sev­eral peo­ple and needs to be sim­ple. In the process, though, I have learned that sim­plic­ity is hard to do. The main chal­lenge comes from the fact that most soft­ware developers […]

Much Ado About XHTML 2

April 15, 2003

There has recently been much grum­bling about XHTML 2 in gen­eral and its dep­re­ca­tion of the IMG tag in favor of the OBJECT one. While XHTML 2 is indeed a depar­ture from the exist­ing stan­dards instead of being an evo­lu­tion, it is impor­tant to real­ize that some of the things the work­group is try­ing to do is fix […]

Geeks to English

March 27, 2003

CNN is run­ning an inter­est­ing arti­cle about infor­ma­tion data stores and the seman­tic web. A very sad thing was the fol­low­ing state­ment about the seman­tic web: One hope­ful jour­nal­ist from the Econ­o­mist asked Berners-Lee to give an exam­ple of how com­pa­nies could make or save money using it, but he didn’t have an answer. This is […]