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by S.M. Schrama on October 23, 2007
You might have thought that a personal assistant cannot be virtualised, but possibly you are wrong. Today, you can use Sandy. Who is she ?
Sandy lives in your email. For example, you would like to b...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on October 22, 2007
Not so long ago I was referred to a new service for bloggers. Having opened a small blog network not so long ago, I was interested. The service consists of statistics and a widget. The widget shows li...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on October 19, 2007
Although everyone believes that Ebay is not only profitable, but even very profitable, it is not. Ebay has just announced a $936 million loss for the third quarter of this year. That is an astronomica...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on October 15, 2007
Discovery Networks is a favorite of mine. I like a lot of documenteries it makes, although in Europe the TV channels are different from the american channels. I even subscribed to the extra channels s...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on October 11, 2007
eBay has finally understood they could become a little bit modern and step into the world of Web 2.0. Yes, theirs is the biggest, but be honest, the interface looks like your first homepage you made i...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on October 10, 2007
Multiple webmailboxes is evil. All the social networks that you need to login to to use them makes it worse. Fortunately, the current Web 2.0 trend is all about integration. Fuser has understood this ...
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by S.M. Schrama on October 8, 2007
Social networks mark the Web 2.0 era we're in. You can't read tech related news on the internet without reading at least one article about social networks, and there are more social networks t...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on October 3, 2007
Zoho DB & Reports is the latest addition to the Zoho office software collection. The application is released today and is a worthy addition. So what can it do ?
1. It's an Online Database &a...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on October 2, 2007
A lot of people on the internet are talking about Joost. Right after Joosts first opening (invitation only) people talked about it as if this is the replacement of your tv set you have been waiting fo...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on September 26, 2007
According to Direct Traffic, youtube plans on adding 30 second ads to Youtube videos in 2008. It seems a logical step, as money will have to be generated in order to keep it free for users.
Google, ...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on September 19, 2007
Zimbra is one of these companies that started not too long ago, is very innovative and has achieved a steady market position with customers that are confident in the service Zimbra offers. And they sh...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 19, 2007
Google keeps on innovating. We knew this was coming, but it is still revolutionary : Within Google Docs&Spreadsheets you can now create presentations. I tried it and I am impressed with the speed...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 17, 2007
I always wanted to learn spanish. For those of you that don't know (about) me, I am a native dutch speaker, fluent in english, french and semi-fluent (is that even a word ??) in german. And I woul...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 17, 2007
Wikis are fun. They always have been. They make documentation sharing very easy. The original concept of wikis is a system that everyone can edit, but some wikis come with (optional) user authenticati...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 14, 2007
Google is moving fast. This company is taking over slowly but surely. Google has changed the way we search data on the internet, changed the way we read and send email, how we chat and so on. When tha...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 10, 2007
netscape must be the one site that everybody forgot about when the web went from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. The company, owned by AOL tried to wake us up by releasing a digg clone to the general public to re...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 7, 2007
Microsoft is working very hard to keep up with the important players on the Web 2.0 market. Now that the company has released their Office Live products, it focuses on development. In an attempt compe...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 7, 2007
Delicious was either the first of one of the first social bookmarking sites. It has grown quite a bit and became popular with a lot of people in very short time. The service knows a lot of extensions ...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 6, 2007
Zoho is working hard and releasing a lot of new apps right now. Recently Zoho released Zoho Start, a startpage where you login to that acts like a dashboard giving you access to all of you application...
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by S.M. Schrama on September 4, 2007
Google Earth, the program you install on your computer to explore the earth, has a nice little "easter egg" built in : A fully working flightsimulator. The game was first discovered by a blo...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 31, 2007
Sony launched an software program in 2005 that was supposed to compete with iTunes : The successor to SonicStage, Sony's audio player : Connect. This project would never succeed, although Sony tho...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 30, 2007
As some of you know, Zoho is one of my favorite companies on the web. They have developed into a big player in the webbased office market, and they have been an inspiration to several others. Zoho alw...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 27, 2007
Yahoo has changed their mailservice recently as a beta service. During the beta period, it was still possible to switch back to the old interface. As of today, that is no longer possible. Yahoo has re...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on August 23, 2007
There are several sites out there that offer you 'drag 'n click' webpages. Some of them are really good, others are less. Yesterday I received an invitation to ClutterMe, allowing me to ch...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 22, 2007
Latest amongst the everlasting creation of social networks is CollectiveX's Groupsites. It is a social network based on workgroups. You can create personal groups or professional or business group...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 21, 2007
As webbased applications are growing up, a lot of functionality is added on the way. The biggest revolution took place when the webbased document and spreadsheet programs were released in the wild - f...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 20, 2007
Google is trying to do good business in China, something that gets a lot of people's attention. The last news on the subject is the opening of Google Answers in China, together with Tianya Club, w...
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by S.M. Schrama on August 16, 2007
Bolt.com, a social network around video content, has ceased to exist. Apparently they have turned belly up after the acquisition by GoFish went wrong recently.Bolt founders have moved on and are now o...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on August 15, 2007
Google has announced the ability to include maps into blogs, but simply copying a html snippet into your blog. I actually thought this was possible already, but I must admit I have been looking for it...
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Newsdesk 2.0
by S.M. Schrama on August 12, 2007
Facebook is very popular. The site is growing fast, companies are linking in (haha) and hackers try to exploit it.
Last week we've learned that facebook found themselves in trouble after adverti...
