Cloud Based Microsoft Office – Early 2010?
-Rashidi Barnett
Yesterday, Microsoft(MSFT) announced that Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will have a new home in the cloud. I previously had concerns on how MSFT was going to handle/compete with products such as Zoho, Google Docs and SlideRocket and IBM’s Lotus Symphony. Not to say that they couldn’t, just when were they going to release [...]
SlideRocket’s Open for Business!
-Rashidi Barnett
I’ve been quite anxious to test this out. I was supposed to be on the beta list, but I never got to test it out. SlideRocket is a presentation tool, much like Microsoft’s PowerPoint.
On their homepage they say “SlideRocket vs. PowerPoint – Like with bullets instead of pebbles.” If you haven’t seen the demo [...]
Free the Airwaves : FCC Vote
-Rashidi Barnett
“Just as Wi-Fi sparked a revolution in the way we connect to the web, freeing the “white space” airwaves could help unleash a new wave of technological innovation, create jobs, and boost our economy. But it can happen only if the FCC moves forward with rules that make the best possible use of this [...]
New Firefox Beta
by Rashidi Barnett
Seth Rosenblatt, with cnet.com, just posted an article about the new Firefox Beta. Looks like they are trying keep up with Google Chrome. They have a new JavaScript engine, called TraceMonkey, which based on Seth’s estimates, is twice as fast as the current Firefox release. Woohoo!
Read the full post here on Cnet.com
Browser as Platform Part 2
by Rashidi Barnett
After some feedback from my original post, I wanted to make sure I clarified some of thoughts.
The stronger implication for browser as a platform (BAAP), is that potentially, the software based OS (Windows, MAC OS, etc) can go away. If all the functions that were once handled by an OS, are now handled [...]
Browser 1 – Desktop 0
by Rashidi Barnett
So i decided to keep a running tab now for when something happens on my desktop that gives either my browswer based applications, or my desktop applications a leg up on the other.
A few minutes ago, I accidently, kicked out my power cord to my desktop. After my pc booted back up, I [...]
Intro – Browser As a Platform
by Rashidi Barnett
I decided to start this blog to expound on my thoughts and views on the browser becoming a platform for development (or browser as an operating environment). In a conversation with Portfolio Magazine contributing editor Kevin Maney at The Churchill Club in Palo Alto, Calif, Marc Andressen, the founder of Netscape Communications, said [...]