By Krish on Feb 28, 2008 in Rants n Raves | 2 Comments
Google launched Google Sites yesterday after a long 16 month wait. After acquiring the promising startup, Jotspot, Google went into a long hiatus with rumors of impending launch coming out in regular intervals. Finally, Google released it as a part of Google Apps Suite yesterday night. My first reaction to the release was one of [...]
By Deepak on Feb 21, 2008 in Computing, Industry Analysis, Rants n Raves, Startups | 1 Comment
Many years ago, we had desktop operating systems. The ones that succeeded were the ones that were able to develop an ecosystem of applications and developers around them. That worked very well for a long time. Then along came the web, and as the web has matured, the platform that developers build [...]
By Deepak on Feb 1, 2008 in Computing, Industry News | 1 Comment
I am pretty much assuming that the Microsoft/Yahoo deal will go through, much to my chagrin. The first question I had was, what about Yahoo’s open source projects. Much as I like Google, Yahoo has always been a super open source friendly company and has pioneered support for projects like Hadoop (the open [...]