Please stop here for a Web 2.0 reality check.

My last post suggested that Google really needed to integrate its Wave technology across all of its product line. I suggested it might be too tough a goal for Google given the dramatic re-building of its apps that it would require. However, maybe, this is exactly what Google is doing. Engadget today published screenshots that show [...]

So, I’ve been trying to get my teeth stuck into Google Wave, but as most people I know have also discovered, it’s not altogether easy given its a collaboration platform and you need other people to collaborate with before you can start collaborating. So maybe it’s just a matter of waiting till Google opens the release [...]

All Google Docs users today will be proclaiming Hallelejuah with news that Google has finally launched Shared Folders in Google Docs. It has puzzled me for the last two years why cloud vendors have had so much trouble launching a Shared Folder feature. Google admits it was the most requested feature from users buts its taken [...]

One of the vagaries of cloud computing is that when you choose to host your pictures, files, and so forth with an organisaton you never know where that company is going to end up in the future, and subsequently what the future holds for your files. Take BubbleShare, one of the earlier Web 2.0 photo sharing [...]

About a year ago, I bought the missus a low-end Lenovo laptop so I could reclaim my own. However, from day one she hated it, complaining that it was slow and that she kept getting strange, annoying pop-ups. There were two reasons for this. The first was that Lenovo likes to add value with a whole [...]

Back in February I wrote: TechCrunch looks certain to dump Federated Media as its ad partner with the growing media organisation now investing in a direct sales force. Michael Arrington has previously questioned their relationship with Federated Media, complaining about both the margins Federated were taking and also the fact that TechCrunch was effectively holding up other [...]

If I tell you video is big, you’re going to be like ‘No shit, Sherlock?’, right? Yeh, but the problem is video is getting TOO big. Let me give you an example, I’m on a 25Gb cap with my ISP. For the benefit of my US readers, in Australia all of our Internet plans are capped. You [...]

So, I’m finally biting the bullet and am going to get serious about CRM. I’ve trialled just about everything there is out there in the CRM SaaS realm and in the end nothing has ever quite worked out for me. I did give Highrise a shot, for a while, but struggled to get staff to [...]

So we all heard about Google’s profiling and how Adsense would soon start serving up advertisements based on not just where you are, but also where you’ve been. Well I just got hit by it on my own hobby site and I got to say it’s a bit creepy. As I’ve mentioned I run a Parramatta [...]

It’s kind of hard to fathom that the only way for eBay to get rid of Skype is to go the IPO route. After all nobody is going IPO right now because the market is in such a hole, and while its not talking of doing anything until 2010, even then its unlikely that the [...]