Adobe BuzzWord - New online web-based Word Processor
Posted on November 13, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | 2 Comments
Adobe has recently opened up it’s much anticipated web-based Word Processing application called BuzzWord to the public and after playing around with it for a new minutes, I have to say it’s WAY better than Google Docs and other online word processors. Adobe BuzzWord uses some of the newest Adobe technology to create one of the most advanced online word processors ever made!
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Read More..>>Microsoft Office Online is now called Office Live Workspace
Posted on October 18, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | 3 Comments
Update: After reading a comment left by the Microsoft Office team, I realized that my title is wrong! Office Online is another business unit that is completely separate from Office Live Workspace, which is part of the Live initiative! Sorry for the confusion.
Microsoft has released some screenshots of it’s new Office Live Workspace product that will be coming out very soon. Of course, everyone has been waiting for something from Microsoft ever since Google released Docs and Spreadsheets. The new Office Live Workspace will be an online companion to Microsoft Office. Here’s a quick list of the features from the Beta web site:
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Read More..>>Amazon joins the MP3 download service arena with DRM-free digital music
Posted on September 26, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | 1 Comment
Yesterday Amazon announced it’s new MP3 download service with 2.3 million songs ready to download and all without copy protection! Of course, you might be thinking "Well that’s great, but Wal-Mart has been doing the same thing and I already use E-Music, so why switch"? Good question! I asked myself the same thing and basically came to the conclusion that Amazon selling MP3’s might actually work because I also happy to buy a crap load of other stuff from them!
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Read More..>>IBM offers alternative to MS Office with Lotus Symphony
Posted on September 20, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | 1 Comment
Everyone thought that only Google was out to take on Microsoft’s dominant Office suite of products, but apparently IBM is now in the fight too! Yesterday they officially announced that the release of a new suite of free office productivity tools named Lotus Symphony. The suite consists of a word processor, spreadsheet application, and a presentation software. The new software is based on the Open Document Format (ODF), which is nice since it means you’re not locked into any kind of proprietary file format.
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Read More..>>Yahoo! Mash Beta - New social networking site
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
Yahoo is on the verge of releasing it’s new re-vamped social networking web site called Yahoo! Mash. After the failure of Yahoo 360, rumors started that Yahoo would be coming out with a new site that would go against the powerhouse social networking sites like MySpace, FaceBook, and Orkut. However, it’s now official and current in private beta testing. You can get invited to use the new service by going to InviteShare, sign up and then request an invite for Yahoo Mash.
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Read More..>>Yahoo launches MapMixer and Shop By Color features
Posted on September 13, 2007 - Filed Under Industry News | Leave a Comment
Last night Yahoo released two new cool features, one for maps and the other for shopping. Using MapMixer you can take a map that’s already been created, like a University map for example, and then overlay that map onto Yahoo maps with full support for zooming and panning. MapMixer morphs a Yahoo map with your own images to create a hybrid map.
The example map shown below takes the Unviersity of Southern California campus map and overlays it onto Yahoo maps. Yahoo automatically creates 5 levels of zoom and detail for your map, so you don’t have to worry about any of that. You simply have to get it aligned and scaled correctly.
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