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Windows Live Local Releases Street-Side Drive-by Preview
In what's at least a pretty cool proof-of-concept, Microsoft has released today a preview of an interesting new online Live.com application that allows you to type in an address or landmark name and then be transported visually to a view of the area as if you were sitting in a vehicle. You can even drive around using the keyboard. There's the usual round of coverage on Tech.Memeorandum as well as on the MSN Search Blog. I can imagine some pretty interesting mashups of this service, if such a thing is allowed.
Richard MacManus Covers Ajax Desktops
Call them Ajax homepages or Portal 2.0 or whatever, know that Ajax desktops are not your father's portal site. I did a bit on this recently as well but Richard goes another level deeper in his Ajax homepages market review. While the jury is still out on these, the growing attention scarcity as well as the reduction in the number of daily individual visits we'll need to make to various information sources combined with robust online application integration may yet make these a winner.
Dana Garder and Myself Do a Podcast on SOA and Ajax
ZDNet's Dana Garder was kind enough to invite me last week to do a podcast on Ajax, SOA, and the new SOA/Client model. We discuss the economics of online software, Ajax, the convergence of SOA and Web 2.0 and much more. I've discussed Web 2.0 as the Global SOA on numerous occasions as well as Ajax being an ideal zero-footprint SOA client, and it'll be interesting to see how this plays out over the next year as the development tools fully catch up to enable this.
RSS Balkanization and The Future of the Web 2.0 Information Ecosystem
I wrote this morning about the risk of RSS format fragmentation and how we need to prevent it. Dave Winer agrees and there was interesting coverage elsewhere. While I do like Atom 1.0 as well (an excellent comparison between the two by Tim Bray here), RSS has mindshare and widespread industry support for now. Let's protect this and all our fundamental content formats wtih some vigor.
That's it. I'll try to do some coverage of Under The Radar on the road. The next time I'll surface in public is at SYS-CON's excellent Ajax Seminar series in New York on March 13th with an all-star cast including father of Ajax Jesse James Garrett himself, hope to see you there.
A Final Note: A few folks have recently accused me of being a shill for Web 2.0 products. To this I will state that I never accept compensation from any Web 2.0 company that I write about. If I link to a company, know that it's because I genuinely like what they're doing.
What do you think the biggest Web-related news was today? Google's stock price drop?
"including father of Ajax Jesse James Garrett"
thanks a lot..
