Yahoo! Travel Trip Plan APIs
Like Yahoo! Search APIs, REST-like interface
A Firefox for music?
iTunes-like Open Source project
Free, Web-based alternatives challenge Microsoft Office
Writely, gOffice, CalendarHub, trumba, kiko, airset, Zimbra...
Windows Live Local
= Microsoft Virtual Earth ++

Sunday, December 18, 2005

RAD Lab @ Berkeley
The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems lab
Microsoft, Google, and Sun lead industry funding of academic lab on Internet services.
Google comprose for AOL
"agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site"
Google to pay $1B for 5% of AOL
Plus Google with get access to Time Warner?s film and television library.
GOOG up $430; stock price change paid for the deal.
Flash Earth
Google Earth in Flash by Neave Lab

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Douglas Engelbart quote: "'I realized that I didn't have any more goals than a steady job, getting married and living happily ever after,' and he asked himself, 'How can my career maximize my contribution to mankind?' "
"Lifestreams"
"desktop metaphor is obsolete... move beyond space - to time"

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Creating Passionate Users
Blog, authors of "Head First" books etc.
Wi-FiHotSpotList.com
a directory of public hot spots for finding Wi-Fi wireless Internet access network nodes

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Google Transit Trip Planner (labs)
for commuters, to easily access public transit schedules, routes, and plan trips using their local public transportation options
digg
Ranking stories based on user submissions
Amazon Light 4.0
an alternate interface to Amazon.com