Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Who Will Out-Search Google?
June 28th, 2006
Apple Matters had an article about Google and is competitors and its forthcoming competitors. Google is the leading search engine by far, but that never means that another engine can’t come out and out perform the engine. As stated in the article, Google isn’t perfect and it will never be perfect. In fact, no service for that matter will ever be perfect.
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Web Services Increasingly Under Attack
June 28th, 2006
More and more people are turning toward web applications and what this means naturally is more people vulnerable to cyber criminals. Large applications with many users have to be particularly careful with security in the web applications. I’m not saying every web application shouldn?t take careful consideration to security but those dealing with a lot of personal information have to be particularly careful. Yahoo News had an article on this particular subject.
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Why Business Blogs Are Important
June 26th, 2006
The Undersigned.net had an article on why business blogs are important. Most businesses believe that blogs aren’t for business. It becomes to personal and many try to hide behind the corporate face. The article lists 10 reasons on why it is important to business blogs. I agree with a lot of them and do think its good for businesses to blog. I’ll review his reasons and give my opinion on each.
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Finance Sites: Yahoo Leads, Google Lags
June 19th, 2006
PC World had an article last week about the number on finance websites. The most popular is Yahoo by far and MSN at a distant second. Google just recently launched its finance site and ranks 42nd on a list tabulated by Hitwise.
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Now, Free Ways to Do Desktop Work on the Web
June 19th, 2006
The New York Times had an article about AJAX web applications on the web to use in place of desktop applications. The article says computer hardware has reached a point where its very inexpensive to pick up a pretty good system. The software however ends up costing even more than the hardware. Google has bought Writely a web based word processor and also released a preview of its spreadsheet software.
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Microsoft AJAX Framework Forges Ahead
June 19th, 2006
Last week, there was an article on Computerworld stating that Microsoft is still working on its Atlas framework for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). The Atlas framework is said to not displace the JavaScript technology with its own Microsoft technology.
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Google Picasa Web Albums
June 17th, 2006
Google has had their Picasa desktop application for Windows for a while now. I used it a little bit, but since I primarily use my Macs to handle photos I use iPhoto. Google Picasa Web Albums was recently released and it since its in a web browser it works across platforms. It seems like a pretty cool tool but I think the new Yahoo beta will end up being better.
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Revamping the Web Browser
June 16th, 2006
Technology review posted an article on the evolution of the web browser. There are many extensions and plug ins for web browsers as well as entire programs using the browsers application engine. These changes mange it easier for social activities, blogging, RSS feeds and other things of that nature. New browsers such as IE 7 and Firefox 2 will be out in the near future offering customers better technology than those available to us today.
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Google Spreadsheets Sneak Peek
June 12th, 2006
Google has released a test version of their Google Spreadsheet software. You can sign up to be on the list to try out the new software. Like GMail it’s a web baased application using AJAX as its key method for transportation. This is another Web 2.0 example and another transition from desktop applications to web applications. Now I don’t think all desktop applications will be replaced by web applications anytime soon, there is definitely a strong push to develop the ones that are possible at this time.
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The Perfect Setup – Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake)
June 12th, 2006
I recently blogged on “The Perfect Setup” for SuSE and Howto forge has another tutorial describing the perfect setup using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake). Since this is the Linux of choice for me, it’s a much better tutorial for me to follow when I create my server installations. I know many people like Ubuntu as well so this should help some. Most people that are doing installations like this already have a pretty good idea on what they are doing, but well written documentation to use as a guide never hurt.
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About Me
Brandon Quintana has been actively involved in web development for the past 12 years. Proficient web programming languages include XHTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
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