Google Web Browser Beta Tuesday

Google heats up the competitive kitchen with Microsoft as it is poised to launch its web browser beta starting tommorrow, Tuesday. The new web browser is billed as Google Chrome. ...

... "Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated sandbox, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers. " ...

Via Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

Google Application Infrastructure Opening

Google starts preview release of its infrastructure for developers. ...

... "application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system administration and maintenance. " ...

Via Google: Your Apps on Google's Infrastructure

See video discussion of this application hosting capability ...

Collaboration Services

IBM offers a set of services to help an enterprise take advantage of collaboration through social networking. The services include support of the adoption of these technologies to create value through expertise location and leverage. ...

... "Adoption - helps introduce collaborative and social networking technologies to an organization through online collaborative events such as company-wide collaborative events (based on IBM's Innovation Jams) or smaller departmental events. Provides social networking analysis, identifying patterns of interaction and the key topic experts and enablers within the organization. " ...

Via IBM: Services for Collaboration

Microsoft Cloud Computing Predictions

In order to seecure a foothold into the future of computing beyond desktops and servers, Microsoft appears poised to make eye-popping investments in a cloud-computing infrastructure that rivals peer companies in the space. ...

... "Microsoft has the resources and, it appears, the will to invest many billions in the physical infrastructure necessary to secure a place ... " ...

Via Nicholas Carr Blog: Microsoft data-center investment likely

Web 2.0 Skills

IBM partners with universities to introduce Web 2.0 skills into curriculum in order to prepare the next generation of computer science graduates for the emerging web technologies. These new applications of technology will leverage networks of people and combinations of information in ways that had not previously been available. ...

... "Businesses today are looking to the next generation of IT experts who understand the dynamics of the globally-integrated enterprise; who can work across geographically distributed teams; and easily utilize different open-standards technology assets to quickly develop enterprise mashups, plug-ins and other Web 2.0 resources.

At UCLA, students in computer science class CS130 can opt to work with IBM mentors on Web 2.0 and Eclipse plug-in projects they themselves design. Meanwhile, graduate students at NC State in Raleigh have the first-ever opportunity to get their hands on Project Zero, a new IBM-created Web 2.0 development environment for creating enterprise mashups and rich web applications for a variety of business needs. " ...

Via IBM: The Class of 2.0: 21st Century Skills

IBM Updates Lotus Notes with Web 2.0 Capabilities for Global Collaboration

Fortune 1000 companies that leverage IBM software for email and collaboration will begin to see Web 2.0 capability introduced into near term upgrades of the Lotus Notes product. Lotus Notes applications can be built with user interfaces that deploy AJAX and style sheets, while content can be delivered through subscription to RSS or ATOM feeds. ...

... "Included in 8.0.1 is a powerful Web 2.0 feature, My Widgets, that can be used to execute actions such as retrieving real time flight arrival information simply by clicking on a flight number in an email. This is accomplished through a new technology called Live Text that can identify patterns and phrases and associate them with an appropriate widget. Users can drag and drop, or import, various kinds of widgets such as Google Gadgets, feeds, and Web pages or their own custom programs onto their new widgets panel in the Lotus Notes sidebar. Planned for delivery with Lotus Domino 8.0.1, is IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which will provide automatic, real time wireless replication of email including attachments, calendar, contacts, personal journal and the to-do list for Microsoft Windows Mobile devices. " ...

Via IBM: Lotus Collaboration Software Roadmap

Build IT 2.0 Strategy

Advice on incorporating Web2.0 concepts into today's IT strategy. ...

... "Incorporate user-generated feedback into your IT strategy to help make IT decisions more transparent - offer comment sections, forums and content-tagging. " ...

Via National Computing Centre: IT 2.0

Web 2.0 3.0 Discussed

Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, compares and contrasts Web 2.0 and 3.0 ...

Project Enables Olympic Collaboration

Information technology at the London Olympics will engage the public in the games. ...

... "London Organising Committee is taking its IT plans much further. They are considering a range of interactive web 2.0-based projects which will allow people to share, access and participate in the games. " ...

Via Platinax: London 2012 Olympics

Google Gears: Next-Gen Web 2.0

Google introduces Gears as an open source technology enable every web application to work better offline and offer a richer experience, not just Google applications. ...

... "This new browser extension is being made available in its early stages so that everyone can test its capabilities and limitations and help improve upon it. The long-term hope is that Google Gears can help the industry as a whole move toward a single standard for offline capabilities that all developers can use. Google Gears marks an important step in the evolution of web applications because it addresses a major user concern: availability of data and applications when there's no Internet connection available, or when a connection is slow or unreliable. As application developers and users alike want to do more on the web - whether it's email or CRM or photo editing - enhancements that make the browser environment itself more powerful are increasingly important. " ...

Via Google: Gears