Analysis How Vulnerable is Google on Search? A new wrinkle in the search landscape emerged this morning with the announcement that Ask.com is now offering Compete traffic stats inline for the sites on results pages. (Disclosure: Compete is an RWW advertiser.) This move itself may not shake up search but it does beg the question, how much room for meaningful innovation is there in search and… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Data Portability Microsoft Makes Public Commitments to Data Portability and Interoperability I'm listening now to a telephone press conference with top Microsoft execs about the company's new strategy shift towards Data Portability and Interoperability for their high volume products like Windows and Office. Ray Ozzie says it is opening up the same APIs that internal developers use out into the public at large. Has Google made… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google Getting Healthy With Google - Google Health Pilot Program Google today announced a pilot program (read: closed beta) of their health records application. The program will be conducted at Cleveland Clinic hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and will include under 10,000 patients. The pilot program will run six to eight weeks with the eventual goal to roll the program out to a broader user base if the test is a… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews Cloudo, an Internet OS, Launches Alpha Cloudo, a Swedish-based based startup, is now inviting developers to sign up for the alpha of their Internet Operating System. The Cloudo IOS, previously called Xindesk, is a virtual computer on the web. Cloudo's offering closely resembles a PC-like experience, but also has some unique features which could make it stand out from the crowd, most… Sarah Perez View comments
Semantic Web Semantic Web: Where Are The Meaning-Enabled Authoring Tools? By Nitin Karandikar Much has been written recently about the concepts, approaches and applications of the Semantic Web. But there's something missing. In terms of understanding, finding and displaying content, there is no doubt that the Semantic Web is slowly becoming real (e.g. there were some great demos at a recent SDForum meet ). However, there… Guest Author View comments