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:
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 [...]
Google is the world’s most important search engine.
Its search engine is without rival, and with good reason. Perhaps Bing will become that rival, but I doubt that it will.
Search is not the only avenue in which Google has excelled; it produces highly popular and usable web applications for various users.
Google is innovative and seems to [...]
Today I finally managed to resolve some significant technical challenges for a web project.
They involved working with custom logical processing and data transformation for a custom content type in a content management framework. The process of discovering the solutions to the problems was time consuming and frustrating at times. Now, the proper approach is readily [...]
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 [...]
Web content management systems (CMSs) are rapidly advancing. I am particularly fond of two prominent open-source CMSs: Wordpress and Drupal. They simplify many tasks pertaining to web design and development.
Content management systems do many things, including:
solve the challenge of user administration
provide permission control systems
maintain useful separations between user interface design and programmatic logic
provide extensible add-on [...]
One would have to be offline to avoid knowing that Apple announced a new device today.
The iPad is being marketed as the best way to experience the web.
It is an extremely attractive gadget and will probably sell very well, given the current strength of the company producing it.