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Cloud computing vs. Software + Services; Google Docs vs. Office Live Workspace

Mary Jo Foley has a blog post about how Microsoft's Office Live Workspace service will be leaving beta by the end of the year . She does a good job, as always, of putting this in context. But I'd like to offer up a few comments, not so much in disagreement of anything, but more in along the lines...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-04-2008
Picasa 3 (beta) and Picasa Web Albums update

As promised, Google has released a beta version of Picasa 3 for Windows today, and updated its Picasa Web Albums online service. Picasa 3 (beta) Find, organize and share your photos. Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you: Locate and organize all the photos on your computer. Edit...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-02-2008
Welcome to Chromium

I'm surprised that there isn't a Google Chrome Blog. After all, the company has about 1100 different blogs, and seems to have one for just about every product and service it makes. That said, Google does have a Chromium Blog , which is about the open source project behind Chrome. It's a start...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-02-2008
Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows

The Google Chrome Beta is live for Windows XP and Vista users. One box for everything Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Shortcuts for your apps Get desktop...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-02-2008
Picasa 3, new Picasa Web Albums due today

It looks like the beta release of Chrome isn't the only big Google release today. The company is also rolling out a major update to its Windows-based Picasa photo management application and the Picasa Web Albums Web service, according to CNET : With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-02-2008
First Google Chrome screenshot

Here's what it looks like, folks: I'll have a preview up shortly.

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-01-2008
Zimbra Desktop: Web Mail running as a local application

Now this is interesting, even if you're not a Yahoo! Mail user. Yahoo! has released the Beta 3 version of its Zimbra Desktop, which is essentially Yahoo! Mail (or, amazingly, Gmail or AOL, or any other IMAP/POP mail) running as a local application (with Windows, Mac, and Linux versions), using Mozilla...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-27-2008
Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparison

Lifehacker offers up an excellent comparison of Microsoft Outlook (traditional desktop email application) and Gmail (cloud computing Web-based email service): Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-20-2008
Who Are My Gmail Contacts?

Finally! Google wakes up to the notion that most Gmail users don't want to automatically add everyone who writes them an email to their contacts list: Google has finally realized that it's a bad idea to automatically add to the list of Gmail contacts all the people you've sent an email. An...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008
Hello, Android

Obviously with all the iPhone 3G hoopla from last week, there's been a lot of Apple, Apple, Apple here and elsewhere. But the iPhone isn't the only viable smart phone platform in town (though I'd argue it's still the best one and, oddly enough, already the most mature). I'm also interested...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-14-2008

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