The place João Bordalo calls home: Tag office

Google's office next move

bordalix — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:22:00 -0400

First, Google bought Writely and added a word processor to his web office. Next, it launched Spreadsheets (which is more powerful than you think). What's next? I think it's time to aim for a online slideshow software.

bordalix — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:12:00 -0500

30 boxes debuted 4 days ago, and it rockz! Finally found my calendar service, thank you guys:

Ahhhh, and it's free.

bordalix — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:41:00 -0500

Three news worth notice:

The newest player to arrive at the webOS arena is Microsoft. The old giant unveiled is web strategy, launching is Live program: a personalizable website, with a lot of Ajax and a cool concept, Windows Gadgets; a new webmail application, which mimics Outlook in a browser (have to see this working); a new messenger, with VoIP integrated and ability to call for any fixed line in world; and Office Live, which is not an online version of Office, but a set of free, ad supported, productivity business tools;
Sun announces services to convert Microsoft Office docs to Open Office compatible format. There is nothing special with this announcement, Sun is following the OpenOffice path. The thing is, this is a service to be offer by Sun Grid Utility, which is Sun's vision of the future, "the network is the computer". Or in other words, applications will be web based, all you need on your side is a browser and a web server running in our PC for local access to information, as stated by Jason Kottke;
Google has filed a patent to serve search results based on user profiles. That means that Google will start to work on all the information they have about us, like what are we searching for, what are the websites we visit most, and what are our social networks. It's a good idea to have Google showing me the links I care most, but this arise a lot of privacy concerns. For a peek on where this could lead us, watch epic.