Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:51 AM/EST
Today, Google rolled a much-anticipated new component into its family of online applications: Google Sites.
The new service is the fruit of Google's 2006 purchase of hosted wiki provider JotSpot, and I've been looking forward for some time now to see what the search giant would do with its purchase, and to see how well it would integrate it with the rest of the Google Apps suite.
I've only spent a short time with Sites so far, but the service looks impressive.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:05 AM/EST
Back when Windows XP was in development, I wrote a column titled, "Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead (Almost)!"
I was writing about how Windows 98 was soon to done in by a more stable, more secure version of Windows, and about how the new version would, alongside OS X and Linux, usher in an era in which applications would be more sanely isolated from each other. No longer would we have to worry about single applications crashing and taking down our whole systems.
Lately, though, I've been displeased to find that misbehavior of certain applications I use is visited upon other, totally unrelated applications, leading to crashes, system resource problems and even potential security breaches on the machines I use. The problem is that a growing number of the applications I rely on are served up to me through my Web browser, and compared to operating systems, Web browsers do a lousy job playing host to applications.
Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:04 PM/EST
On Tuesday morning, while jotting down some column ideas, I took note of the top two items I wanted to see from Google's Gmail service:
1. Enable IMAP access to mail; and
2. Make labels persist beyond Gmail's Web UI.
On Wednesday afternoon, I found that Google had satisfied both of those desires, and moved a step closer to making Gmail migrations a real option for companies running Exchange...
