http://browserasaplatform.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:02:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en -Rashidi Barnett Well not totally live, but close.  It all lives in the browser, check out the video. I've been away for a while, but I think things are about to get very very exciting so I need to figure out how to post updates more often.  More to come... via Engadget http://browserasaplatform.com/2009/11/google-chrome-os/ -Rashidi Barnett I've mentioned some of the MS Office competitors, but there are also some great online tools for editing photos. Sometimes, Photoshop can just be overkill. This was on my list of to-do's, but Sean P. Aune over at Mashable has done in his article called, "20 Great Online Image Editors" ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/11/online-photo-tools/ -by Rashidi Barnett I've been thinking about how MSFT has made the move to change one of their core products, MSFT Office, fundamentally changing the way they do business. This, in my humble opinion, is in response to what they've seen newer, and some smaller companies do. Please see previous post ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/11/head-still-in-the-cloud/ - by Rashidi Barnett So over at Androidguys, Sriharsha wrote a post in regards to Fennec, Mozilla's new mobile browser, not being available for development on Android phones. I had missed this news today, but I have some thoughts on this. If I'm understanding correctly, this potentially falls in line with ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/11/mozillas-new-mobile-browser/ -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 ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/10/cloud-based-microsoft-office/ -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 ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/10/sliderockets-open-for-business/ -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 ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/10/free-the-airwaves-fcc-vote/ 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 ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/10/new-firefox-beta/ 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 ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/10/browser-as-platform-part-2/ 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 ... http://browserasaplatform.com/2008/10/browser-1-desktop-0/