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May04

A sneak peak of Wolfram|Alpha

A sneak peak of the search engine / research engine that the web has been all abuzz with lately:

I can't wait until it is live to see how different the real experience is from the demo :)

May30

Google Gears: Offline Ajax library released

Google released a very early release of Google Gears (BETA) today - an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs. This is going to change the web.

More: http://gears.google.com/

Feb19

OpenID, Microsoft, and AOL - Are Yahoo and Google in tow?

Let's face it: Remembering all of our login and passwords for the countless websites we use everyday sucks. I've blogged about it before. . OpenID set out to change all that, and appears to be making strides with both Microsoft and AOL. Will Google and Yahoo be next?
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What is OpenID? "OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." That's fancy talk for "OpenID allows you to login 'everywhere' with one login/password".

AOL = 63 Million More Open IDs

Feb05

Is Google's Web-Based Presentation software ready for big business?

TechCrunch recently ran a story about an upcoming release from Google called 'Presently'. It will be a web based presentation software (think a Microsoft PowerPoint clone)

Online presentation software is nothing new to the web. There are already decent releases from Zoho.com (Zoho Show), Preezo, and Empressr in a race to become the first popular.