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Monday, 28th August 2006

Top Web Apps in Turkey

Turkey is next in this R/WW series on top international Web apps. It's the 9th country I've profiled so far - the others have been Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain and China. For the following information on Turkey, I have Emre Sokullu to thank (also Honor Gunday for info on his web apps). Emre is an open source…

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Sunday, 27th August 2006

Web Office update - Google and Zoho make moves

Lately there's been an increasing buzz about Web Office, something which I've been writing about for some time now. Red Herring magazine wrote an article with the provocative headline 17 MS Office Killers. While it would be quite a story if Microsoft did get usurped by a Web-based Office, the reality is that Microsoft will - over time - move…

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Saturday, 26th August 2006

Survey Of Client Apps Using The Web Platform

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. In this post, we survey a range of client applications which utilize the new web platform. This is a follow-up to our Web Platform Primer post a few days ago, in which we explained the building blocks of the new Web infrastructure: The Web Computing Platform Essentially the building…

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Thursday, 24th August 2006

Windows Live breaks into Alexa Top 10

Despite all the broohaha over whether Spaces is the biggest blog service on the planet, it's apparent that Windows Live is making an impact on the Web. After being around for less than a year, Alexa now ranks Live.com (and all its sub-domains) as the 10th biggest property on the Web. And yet it doesn't seem to be affecting MSN.com's traffic that…

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Wednesday, 23rd August 2006

Cloud Computing

Amazon Launches Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon has just released a companion product to its online storage solution S3. With a name almost as surreal as Mechanical Turk (which is Amazon's collective intelligence service), the new 'compute' service is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. It all sounds like a Terry Gilliam movie, but it is Amazon at its innovative best once again. Here's…

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