Android, platform without a vendor?

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Tim Bray spoke at the Razorfish technology summit a couple of years ago. It looks like he's finally leaving Sun/Oracle to join Google and work on the Android platform. Android has been getting plenty of press and looks like a fun device, I've played around with a bunch. In Tim's ...

Keeping the cloud open

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I really like Matt Asay's article on why we need to focus on keeping the cloud open and less about keeping the operating system open. If you think of the cloud as an 'array' of applications and less of a hosting solution it starts to open up the aperture on ...

Google creates another new language - Noop

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Google announced a new language called Noop today.  It looks pretty interesting, building on the power of spring and most notably for them, building dependency injection right into the laungage. Here's some of the highlights. As we look across the projects we are working on it's clear how ...

Windows : Mac :: Google : (?) - It happens to be “bing”

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Believe it or not but Microsoft’s newly evolved search engine bing is nothing less than the answer of the above analogy question. You must have solved many of these analogy questions during your SAT exam. When I apply my knowledge and understanding to the question“Windows : Mac :: Google : (?)”, ...

Cloud interoperabiltiy

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase It's great to see cloud computing pushing for deep interoperability. This MSDN post covers some interesting topics around the manifesto and also speaks a bit about some interesting demos showing integration between Google's App Engine and Azure. Very excting. "At MIX, we highlighted the use of our Identity Service ...

OpenCloud Manifesto = Skynet

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Exciting to see folks pulling together some Cloud Computing standards to help us live seamlessly across the different cloud vendor offerings. I heard it first on the This Week in Tech podcast, it's starting to sound a lot like the Terminator's version of Skynet. ...

Google Chrome - Why it is different?

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Yesterday, Google launched its first beta version of open source web browser called Chrome. Some people consider this launch as Google’s attack on Microsoft’s IE and some regarded this launch as yet another browser to choose from. Google indirectly claims that market needed a fresh web browser. A browser that ...

How cool is this new search engine - cuil.com ?

Friday, August 1st, 2008

By now almost everyone who keeps an eye on search market is aware of the launch of new search engine - cuil.com. And to my amazement most of us have already given a verdict on this new offering as to if this is a real Google killer or just another ...

LiveMesh, the new ’synchronization’ platform from Microsoft

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Think about an online-offline silverlight-wpf application that synchronizes your files using LiveMesh. I like the name. I finally see the Live brand starting to come together for Microsoft. Now all it needs is some more market awareness. So, what is LiveMesh? It's basically a new, invite only for now, platform that ...

Google Gears and the offline/online trend

Monday, June 16th, 2008

With Google Gears, Adobe Air, and Microsoft WPF there's definitely lots of exciting changes in the desktop application area. Using the openness of the web to crack open the 'closed' nature of regular documents that we use today. At the recent Avenue A | Razorfish Enterprise Solutions summit, Andrew McAfee ...