Cloud Computing A Closer Look at Cloud-based Testing with Soasta One of the themes many of us commentators harp on about is the fact that barriers to entry for application developers have never been lower - the availability of cloud hosting, agile development methodologies, even this crazy frothy investment cycle we're in all combine to see lots of applications being created. One of the flip sides of al this… Ben Kepes View comments
enterprise When Consumer Apps Are Acquired by Enterprise Cos In January of this year, mobile travel management app TripIt was acquired for up to $120 million by Concur, a company founded in 1993 that provides "integrated expense and travel management solutions." TripIt, founded in late 2006, was one of my favorite 'web 2.0' apps. At the end of 2007, ReadWriteWeb named it one of 10 Semantic Apps to… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Groupware Integrating Web 2.0 with Traditional Software: MindTouch Launches Contextual Help CMS Technical documentation platform provider MindTouch tonight announced an interesting new feature in its flagship product: MindTouch Contextual Help. The feature offers the ability to integrate collaboratively written documentation inline into web and desktop application interfaces, instead of only publishing it as a standalone document… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Big data Google Refine Gets Fusion Tables Import and More Google Refine, formerly known as Freebase Gridworks, has been updated to version 2.1. Refine is an open source tool for cleaning up messy data sets before linking them into systems such as Freebase. The update includes new HTML parsing functions, the ability to import Google Fusion Tables and more. Freebase Gridworks was one of the tools included… Hack Klint Finley View comments
mobile Futuristic Location Platform Geoloqi Will Live, Lands Funding Last Fall I wrote about Geoloqi, a bootstrapped geolocation platform that points to where I hope location technology will go in the future. The service offers an app and today launches an API that uses persistent location tracking to trigger notifications tied to real-world places. Maybe it's a note you or a family member left for you at the… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments