Category: Web 2.0

Coaman.ch is showing a screenshot (here) from the upcoming GDrive, Google’s online storage solution. But the shot raises even more questions: what exactly is the “Google Computer” mentioned on the screenshot?

VPN-less access: Not at a Google Computer?

So if we presume that Google is doing a private alpha test of GDrive across developers, exactly what is the “Google Computer” they might be using? Is it the Google PC that’s been speculated about for so long? After all, if GDrive is just an online storage facility, why would you need VPN access, after all, you should just be able to access those files, right?

Tags: GDrive, Google PC

Who’s spinning, and who’s telling the truth? I’d say watching this Amanda’s not looking some much like the victim any more.

Tags: Andrew Baron, Rocketboom

Vale Rocketboom 2006. It was nice while it lasted, I guess it will probably mean more traffic for zefrank…which isn’t a bad thing I guess. Coverage here, here, here and here.

Anyone else having regular issues with the SMTP for gmail? Seems now serveral times a day I can’t send emails from Thunderbird using my gmail account. Very, very annoying, particularly when I’ve still got pop3 access and am receiving emails with no problems, I just can’t always respond to them.

Tags: gmail

It’s taken longer than I thought it would, but finally the consolidation of the blog searching market has begun, with Dave Winer reporting that PubSub is dead. Servers Bob Wyman right for being too-snarky towards those who dared criticise this mob in the past…if you want to get support in the community, embrace your critics and learn from them.

Tags: PubSub

Darren has an interesting article over at Problogger today on “Profile Peddling” which is setting up sites on services such as MySpace to drive traffic to your site. Now I’ve got accounts on most of these services, but to be honest I’d never really seen them as a way to drive traffic to sites (I just like playing with new stuff 🙂 ). The question is also raised: is this ethical? I like one particular commenter who wrote that it’s ethical unless you are doing it for unethical reasons! Food for thought.

Want to try and understand Web 2.0 and the future of media, then read this. One of the best pieces you’ll read this year on where media is going.

Darren’s got a great big list of professional blogging links over at Problogger today and instead of doing the work I should have been doing I spent some time checking out a few of the links, and discovered yet another blog posting tool, RocketPost for Anconia. It certainly looked interesting enough from their page to download the demo version, and I was looking forward to perhaps finding the next step up in blogging software from my current blogging tool of choice, Blogware. Sadly however, I was disappointed once again, because despite some fairly nice WYSIWIG features, they just don’t get the image handling right, for example I cant copy and paste an image into a post, and as much as I can drag and drop an image from a page to RocketPost, it doesn’t save it in the post, it just shows it from the original page, which as all bloggers know is a no-no. Oh well, back to BlogDesk.

Post note: no tags here, the feature didn’t work in RocketPost despite promising to.

Read this on Ben Barrens blog pointing to a new blog: Doomed Startup who is covering Gather.com. Can’t say I could recall the company so I checked out the site, all I can say is WTF? This is suppose to be something like Newsvive, but if you visit Newsvine it’s pretty easy to work out what is, Gather is well…hard to gather…and perhaps the Doomed Startup blog hits it on the head: “some people have no business running a business” because any business in which you can’t actually ascertain what the heck their business is, is most likely not going to last long.

Tags: Gather

Techcrunch reports on Chris Pirillo’s Gada.be changing its name to TagJag. Certainly I nice new look for the site, but what is it with Chris Pirillo and crappy names? Tagjag? Why not Tagfaghag, or Taggnome? 🙂 Sure, Lockergnome isn’t a pretty name but it’s easy to remember, and Tagjag meet’s the old marketing rules on being easy to remember, easy to spell, and more importantly short and sweet, but it’s still a bloody awful name.

Tags: Tagjag, Techcrunch, Gade.be