The United Auto Workers union could become General Motors’ biggest shareholder
ha. that will only kill off GM faster, with the most hidebound in control
Month: September 2007
Urban Sprinting
bringing fitness to the mall
Microsoft GDocs Competitor
there are lots more questions than answers about Microsoft’s planned Google Docs competitor. But at least Microsoft has acknowledged it has an alternative in the wings for the home/small-business set who want this kind of functionality.
too little too late. it still requires a local install of ms office, too
Telco Interference
1 witness isn’t coming to the hearing to fret about the ad market or the dangers to consumer privacy. He’s only coming to tarnish Google at the behest of other parties. Guess which ones?
war.
Web applications Growth
The low adoption barriers to web applications mean that no traditional packaged software company is safe from web-based competition in the near term.
redmond, we have a problem
Verizon Blocks Pro-Choice SMS
Another reason for telepocalypse
Book Autopsies
Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered 3D sculptures.
Microsoft Search quality
As if we needed to see the gulf between Google and the rest, the Windows Live SkyDrive rename and update has only just hit the top of techmeme and yet Google has already updated its index and ranking and is continuing to do so. Yahoo and Live Search are both way behind
such candor
Urban Noise Generation
Some of the “surprisingly agreeable” sounds discovered thus far include “car tires on wet, bumpy asphalt, the distant roar of a motorway flyover, the rumble of an overground train and the thud of heavy bass heard on the street outside a nightclub.”
GData Write APIs
In a notable but understated move, Google announced yesterday the availability of the GData JavaScript Client Library for Calendar. While on the surface this may seem like just another wrapper for the Google Calendar API like the ones provided for PHP and Java it’s actually a lot more interesting. Why? Because it’s one of the first examples of the next generation client-side APIs: one that doesn’t just let you fetch data, it lets you write data as well.
first js api that allows writes, too. at least for gdata
Gregor J. Rothfuss 