ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 11.04.2008: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 11.04.2008: Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "instead of just offering applications over the Web in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Amazon and Google are actually offering an entire Platform-as-a-Service because they provide the foundational upon which to build highly scalable and robust Web-based applications"

Tags: amazon, analysis, business, google, saas, webapp

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 23.11.2007: Live Documents enters the Office suite ring

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 23.11.2007: Live Documents enters the Office suite ring
by Dan Farber: "Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now he wants to squish Microsoft Office with a new suite and complementary collaborative component, Live Documents."

Tags: office, weboffice, office2.0, webservice, webapp, microsoft

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software
by Ashling O’Connor: "The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant’s core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop busines with Live Documents."

Tags: office, software, strategy, webapp, webservice

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 19.11.2007: What’s driving adoption of rich Internet applications?

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 19.11.2007: What’s driving adoption of rich Internet applications?
by Ryan Stewart: "The bulk of the excitement comes because [with RIAs] we’re basically talking about the next generation of web applications."

Tags: ria, adoption, webapp, trend

Mozilla Labs Blog, 25.10.2007: Prism

Mozilla Labs Blog, 25.10.2007: Prism
by LabRats: "Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur."

Tags: mozilla, firefox, webapp, prism, web2.0

Joel on Software, 18.09.2007: Strategy Letter VI

Joel on Software, 18.09.2007: Strategy Letter VI
by Joel Spolsky: "interesting analysis about the development of web-applications, their APIs and a strategic threat for Google."

Tags: strategy, software, webapp, analysis, apis, javascript, ajax, google

ReadWrite Web, 09.09.2007: Google Apps Goes After Enterprise Market - "Team Productivity" The Catchphrase

ReadWrite Web, 09.09.2007: Google Apps Goes After Enterprise Market - "Team Productivity" The Catchphrase
by Richard MacManus: "UK newspaper The Guardian is reporting that Google has partnered with major IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini, to sell Google Apps to enterprises."

Tags: google, webapp, webservice, enterprise, saas, itarchitecture, consulting

Wired Blogs Compiler, 04.06.2007: Firefox 3 Feature Preview

Wired Blogs Compiler, 04.06.2007: Firefox 3 Feature Preview
by Scott Gilbertson: "Firefox Alpha 5 arrived last Friday, bringing with it the first look at Places, the new bookmark management system. But the Firefox team has a number of additional UI tweaks up their sleeve and some of them look quite slick."

Tags: firefox, review, mozilla, webdev, browser, trends, webapp

Read/Write Web, 18.04.2007: Bungee Labs - Next Generation Web Development Platform

Read/Write Web, 18.04.2007: Bungee Labs - Next Generation Web Development Platform
by Richard MacManus: "Yesterday in the Web 2.0 Expo booths, I checked out Bungee Labs - an ambitious new on-demand, web-based development environment that enables developers to build and deploy web apps that utilize the large variety of APIs and web services out on the Internet."

Tags: apis, framework, web2.0, webdev, startup, webapp

Techcrunch, 27.02.2007: Talking Apollo with Kevin Lynch at Adobe Engage

Techcrunch, 27.02.2007: Talking Apollo with Kevin Lynch at Adobe Engage
by Ryan Stewart: "Adobe has focused on cross platform web based experiences, but with Apollo they’re hoping to move into richer desktop experiences as well as richer mobile integration."

TechCrunch, 21.02.2007: It’s G-Day: Google Launches Apps Premier

TechCrunch, 21.02.2007: It’s G-Day: Google Launches Apps Premier
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "The day that everyone knew was coming has arrived with the announcement that Google has launched Google Apps Premier, its subscription package of premium, hosted business applications in direct competition with Microsoft."

Tags: google, webapp, weboffice, hosted, webservice