Analysis Five Key Takeaways From Microsoft, OpenID Announcement Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb and edited by Richard MacManus Bill Gates of Microsoft just announced a deal with Jan Rain, VeriSign and Sxip to develop integration between Microsoft CardSpace and the open source project, OpenID. This is an interesting deal between the software giant in Redmond and a popular open source project, which… Jitendra Gupta View comments
News Web News: Mozilla Manifesto, Offline Firefox, Yahoo IM/Mail, President 2.0, SNS APIs, Web Safety - The Mozilla Manifesto; rather generic new manifesto. It reminds us of an old Jeff Bezos quote... when someone asked him 'What do u think about Google's moto - don't be evil?' Bezos is said to have replied: 'I assumed this was obvious'. We couldn't track down the exact quote, so please leave a comment if you have a link! - Offline Zimbra with… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As Database Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. In this post Alex tests out and explores the emergent world of Yahoo! Pipes. He sees some interesting parallels with Relational Databases in the 90's, concluding that with pipes, the Web essentially becomes a giant database that can be queried and remixed in any number of ways. One of the… Alex Iskold View comments
Microsoft Windows Live Confusion - One Year On Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet has done an excellent analysis of Microsoft's Windows Live brand. Her conclusions are quite damning of Microsoft's marketing department: "Problem No. 1: Live isn't a consistently applied term: Sometimes it refers to services (like Windows Live Messenger), sometimes to desktop applications (a k a Windows Live Search… Richard MacManus View comments
Video Services 1dawg Converts Online Video For Mobile Devices The oddly-named 1dawg is the latest of hundreds of hopefuls to ride the online video wave. 1dawg's differentiating factor is that it provides a free video conversion service to a variety of mobile devices. It's a seemingly minor thing to do, but in the current era mobile devices often use incompatible media formats - and so this really does scratch… Richard MacManus View comments