Google announced the Google Apps Marketplace today.
It offers web applications that integrate directly with Google Apps.
The new platform makes a number of new data integrations possible.
The Google blog has an official announcement and an introductory video:
I am preparing to take the Macroeconomics CLEP test.
Two figures that dominate the literature of economics are Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes.
While this is an oversimplification, it is generally accurate to describe Smith as a proponent of free market economics and Keynes a proponent of governmental economic interventionism.
Keynes believed free markets incapable of self [...]
Jason Fried spoke at the Good Experience Live conference in 2006:
“Less” is a competitive advantage, explains Jason Fried, especially in software development. Fried’s company 37signals, which authored the book Getting Real and has created several popularWeb applications, lives this philosophy and has enjoyed great success as a result.
While I would have selected different language at times, [...]
Twitter is a popular microblogging platform at the moment.
Many users (or potential users) of the service are confused as to how to use it.
Twitter is presented as a means for answering the question “what are you doing?” but is really primarily a tool for real-time communication and search.
The most effective users of Twitter are doing [...]
It popularized multi-touch technology on mobile phones.
It introduced a new level of usability on handsets.
It forced many competitors to introduce improved products.
It has introduced and is introducing the mobile web to many people.
It increases the pressure on AT&T to improve its service.
It provides, in certain markets, competition for Research in Motion’s Blackberry.
It brings out the [...]