Tag: OM MALIK

Admit it, you're addicted to text-messaging, right? Well someone is, because lately I've been bombarded with ads proclaiming a national epidemic of texting and related fees. Won't someone think of the children! Well maybe someone has, or maybe all this is just silly. Why not send a bunch of text messages for free? I mean, that's what the web is all about, right? Free stuff? As in beer? Katie over ...

Are you a widget lover? You know all those cool little tools that can be added to desktops and webpages to show the weather, sports scores, news, and horoscopes. The widget world is growing strong, major players and individuals are creating some very neat modules, widgets and gadgets. GigaOm founder Om Malik, and Niall Kennedy have teamed up to organize a conference called Widgets Live! The new ...

Some of the news that's fit to blog from around the world and throughout the day. Here's your daily bits of news... A new community tech preview of Vista should be coming out "in a few weeks" according to Josh's Windows Weblog. Speaking of Microsoft, you can download a trial version of BizTalk Server 2006 if you're into that sorta stuff. BetaNews reports MobiTV is partnering with ...

Another piece of Google's fabled web-based office suite falls into place with the big G's acquisition of Writely, the web-based word processor that we (and everyone else) have been keeping an eye on since its beta launch last year. To refresh your memory, Writely is the flagship product of Upstartle and lets people collaboratively write and edit documents in their web browser. Writely shares its ...

Business 2.0 is running an interesting article called The Next Net 25 in which 25 newish companies are identified as the potential next Googles, Amazons, and Microsofts. To regular readers there's nothing too suprising in any of the five categories: Social Media, Mashups and Filters, The New Phone (VoIP), The Webtop (web-based office), and Under the Hood. Digg and YouTube are the big names in ...

30 Boxes is a next-generation web-based calendar that'll be hitting beta later this week. I'm not very excitable when it comes to web-based calendards, even the new breed of AJAXy ones, but blogger Thomas Hawk got in on an early demo (along with a few other Web 2.0 notables like Matt Mullenweg and Andy Baio) and declared: "Best... Calendar... EVER!" In his long review, Hawk calls 30 ...