The next-gen web is starting to gather pace, as this week MySpace integrated Google Gears, Yahoo! announced their new BrowserPlus product and Google launched a browser-based edition of their 3D Earth product. Technologies and formats such as AIR, Silverlight, JavaFX, Gears, XUL, Web Applications 1.0 (DOM5, HTML5 etc.) allow developers to accelerate beyond AJAX [...]
During this week’s Google I/O conference of developers, AOL publicly declared their love of OpenSocial as they announced their future support of OpenSocial with AOL services. The first integration point will be seen during the next “few months” at myAOL.com, where Google’s Gadgets will soon be available. That is only the beginning, though, as OpenSocial [...]
Just the beginning…
With all the talk of multi-touch, surface computing, and mobile technology, let’s think, for a moment, where we’re all headed. Given the fact that we are all gadget geeks and give the fact that most of us will use Windows until we’re old and gray, we need to start talking about future interfaces [...]
Here’s a list of upcoming conferences that may be of interest:
OReilly’s Graphing Social Patterns, June 9-10 in Washington, DC. Use “gspe08tech” for a 15% registration discount. Thanks, OReilly, for giving away two free tickets to the conference to TechCrunch readers.
Supernova, June 16-18 in San Francisco, CA. TechCrunch readers automatically receive a [...]
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Last Monday, I wrote an editorial piece supporting Senator Joe Lieberman in his plea to Google to show some restraint and start voluntarily censoring and pulling down videos by those known to post terrorist content and terrorist propaganda. Many of you in the comments left on the editorial piece were in agreement with me, as [...]
With all the thousands of engineers at google, you’d think someone speaks binary. But perhaps not. Attendees of the Google I/O conference today were given t-shirts that, presumably, were supposed to spell GOOGLEIO on the front in binary. Just one problem, the actual message printed spells GOOGLEKO:
G: 01000111
O: 01001111
O: 01001111
G: 01000111
L: 01001100
E: 01000101
K: 01001011
O: 01001111
The [...]