Cloud Computing

A couple days ago Amazon announced plans to open up the Alexa search index and offer a web-based service to utilize the index. I think big changes could be afoot for the whole...

I've posted a video tutorial today which teaches how to use the social bookmarking servce Del.icio.us along with the Firefox browser's Live Bookmarks to share information via RSS. This is a great way...

When you hear about web services for Big Business the big buzz term most often heard is "Service Oriented Architecture" or SOA for short. The main idea with SOA is that large IT...

Mobile technology blog Picturephoning.com posts about the Pupillo remote controlled camera . From Picturephoning: 3, the mobile phone operator has launched a device that will allow its users to control a remote video...

I've been helping a few friends buy new PC's (mostly laptops) and I thought I'd pass on some advice. So here are few tips to for buying a PC and setting it cheaply....

I made a really really simple video tutorial on how to use a Live Bookmark with the Firefox browser. Live Bookmarks are one of the easiest ways to take advantage of RSS. If...

The Salesforce Blog had a post today about a handy free plug-in for Salesforce. Great if you are trying to map out the hierachy of a large customer organization....

I know this is my second list this week, but I've found a few good web-based tools that I can't pass up: Trumba - This web based calendar should work well for small...

The web-development acronym Ajax has been bandied about so much in the press these days that I have an uneasy feeling my mother might be calling any day now to find out what...

The Unofficial Web Applications List:--Before you through the hassle of installing and maintaining software you may want to see if any of these will do the job. http://www.webapplist.com/ Web 2.0 Mash-Ups Take one...

For non-technical managers and business owners the term Application Programming Interface is an awful piece of jargon to comprehend, known to induce anxiety, despair and even outright capitulation whenever encountered in a business...

I wrote a while back about buying a mobile phone I bought with a two mega-pixel camera with a good mp3 player. At the time I bought it, it wasn't offered by any...

A while back I read a interesting blog post about British economist Ronald Coase. If you want to blame someone for all the excitement these days over web-services and web-based applications you may...

You don't have to be employed in the IT industry to find today's changes in the software industry interesting. As the world shifts towards web-based applications, the discovery, adoption, and marketing of software...

I'm starting to like the VOIP service Skype a lot more than I once did. I recently moved to a new home, and even though I only moved five blocks, my new location...

If you've wondered what's behind all the excitement about the internet and web based business models these days, you may benefit from reading this article by tech publisher extraordinaire Tim O'Reilly. Even Bill...

Over the last year lots of applause has been given for the new "social bookmarking" services on the internet. Unlike ordinary bookmarks which are stored in a file on our PC's, social bookmarks...

Amazon came out with its "Mechanical Turk" service on Friday. The idea of the Turk site is to allow business to tap into unused labor to perform simple tasks (that can't be done...

U3 is a consortium of hardware companies and software companies behind a standard which allows everyday USB memory keys to function as an individual's mobile computing environment. If you're on the road,...