as TechCrunch reported earlier today, Google launched its b2c payment-service Google Checkout. Checkout is an intermediary layer between buyers and sellers similar to PayPal, allowing buyers to do payments to a single trusted entity (=Google) while trading with any number of sellers. the latter use mediating services obviously to lower the barriere for potential customers [...]
dabble db is a web-based tool for data-management, -collection and -sharing, aimed at corporate information-workers which are currently organizing data among small teams using Microsoft Access or similar software. since Access’ initial launch in 1992 (click to read about the products’ history), Microsoft has done quite an amazing job in enabling database-amateurs with profound insight [...]
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if you haven’t been to denmark yet, here might be a good reason to go there this summer:
This year’s Wiki Symposium brings together wiki researchers and practitioners in the historic and beautiful city of Odense, Denmark, on August 21-23, 2006. Participants will present, discuss, and move forward the latest advances in wiki contents, sociology, and [...]
today we face several major problems using instant messaging software: a) there are several products on market (ICQ, AIM, MSN…), establishing IM-networks which are not interconnected. b) messaging-software has to be installed locally on the PC, which is a serious problem for users working in environments without permission to install software (i.e. most companies and [...]
‘(Microsoft) Office is dead!’ – that seems to be the mantra of many web 2.0-apps. but can current web-office-applications really substitute an office-suite with a decades-long history of improvement and extension? over the next weeks, I’m going to review several popular web-apps to see if that’s the case, starting with Google Spreadsheets, which recently was [...]
if you’re in San Francisco, you’ll probably have a hard time deciding which conference to attend today: if SuperNova wasn’t enough, BloggerCon IV is starting on june 23rd. BloggerCon is an “un”-conference organized by Dave Winer, the sometimes-debatable A-list- & longtime-blogger who came to fame by inventing and evangelizing RSS and podcasting.
there are several options [...]
social tech-news-site digg is about to launch its version 3.0 on monday, june 26th. the most groundshaking change might be the new categorization of topics into six categories (technology, entertainment, gaming, science, world & business and online video). as Mike Arrington points out, digg has surpassed former leader slashdot in terms of pageviews long ago, [...]
san francisco – supernova 2006 just started yesterday, june 21st. supernova is a high-grade technology/media-conference with the aim “to understand how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world” (about supernova).
today’s top-event at the conference is definitely ‘Connected Innovators’, an exclusive showcase of twelve selected startups. Connected Innovators was created in association with web 2.0-evangelist [...]
Carson Systems (makers of DropSend) finally unveiled the core-purpose of their soon-to-be-going-beta web-application Amigo. Amigo basically is a matching-service, connecting newsletter-publishers offering ad-space in their email-newsletters and advertisers looking for a precisely targeted audience. the idea seems to make sense, especially for those publishing to smaller address-pools, who are currently having a hard time to [...]
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