They’re All Up in the Clouds: Amazon, Google, IBM, and Now Intel, Microsoft and Yahoo All Want In

Posted on July 30, 2008 by dsarna

Cloud Computing can only be supplied by the industry giants; the rest of us can develop software to enhance the Cloud Computing experience.

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Premature Reports of the Death of Web 2.0

Posted on July 30, 2008 by dsarna

Is Web 2.0 and the really useful free services we have come to depend on over? Is the “free is good” rapid growth period coming to an end? The really well-written ReadWriteWeb blog, which covers Web 2.0 quotes Chris Shipley in Demo.com as opining that the Web 2.0 cycle has come to a close. In [...]

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Cuil Looks Cool; A Useful Search Engine It’s Not

Posted on July 28, 2008 by dsarna

Cuil, a new search engine developed by former Google engineers failed to impress the GoogleGazer, despite it aesthetically pleasing layout.

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Google Shows How Life Imitates Art With Compelling Demonstration of Natural Speech Recognition Technology

Posted on July 15, 2008 by dsarna

The browser as we know it will play a less important part in the Internet life of the future. As we noted earlier,  this transition is giving agita to the billionaires that run Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, as it disrupts the existing order. But change is necessary. The Browser / keyboard cum mouse input/output trio [...]

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Yahoo’s BOSS Open Search Initiative Unlikely to Keep it Independent, But Will Google Respond?

Posted on July 13, 2008 by dsarna

Yahoo’s Build Your Own Search initiative (BOSS) is a positive step, good for the world, and has already been embraced by Hakiya, Cluuz, Daylife, and me.dium. However, it’s too little, too late, and is unlikely to keep Yahoo as an independent entity. An obvious question is whether Google will follow suit, neutralizing Yahoo’s advantage. The GoogleGazer predicts that they will.

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Get Out the Tums: Life Beyond the Desktop Browser Gives Agita to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo

Posted on July 10, 2008 by dsarna

The Internet has gotten very big, very fast. I know I am not telling you anything you didn’t know already. But how fast? How big? Forty years ago, in April, 1969, Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), under contract to the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) – (since renamed DARPA) – [...]

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The More Things Change… — From Mainframe to Distributed to Cloud Computing

Posted on July 3, 2008 by dsarna

When I began work for IBM in 1970, mainframes were where it was at, “Complex Systems” (interconnected mainframes) was the ultimate state-of-the-art, the highest-speed character-based terminals were connected to mainframes at a speed of 9.6 kbs (about 1,000 characters a second on a good day), and PL/I an imperative computer programming language was the latest [...]

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