One of the great things about Web 2.0 is that almost anybody with talent and luck can get into the game.  Unlike the pre-2001 bubble, which was marked by big, expensive software development costs and required the endless ramping up of high-overhead people,  much of the current phase of web-application growth is fueled by free or low-cost applications like blogs and wikis or built directly for […]

Google has released its long-awaited Web Office Suite under the curiously clumsy name Google Apps for Your Domain.  It is a private-label version of web-based applications the company has released over the past few years–Gmail, Google Google Talk, Calendar, Google Page Creator.
The immediate impact on large organizations will be minimal.  They already have too much […]

If there is one thing that the eager young lions of Silicon Valley excel at it is making simple things more sound grandiose than they really are.  Take the notion of a WebOS which is not an operating system at all but a barebones computer that provides access to desktop services based on a server. 
It […]

So these four geeky young guys (average height 5′ 7″) are playing basketball last year and one of them says, “Hey, let’s create a WebOS and beta it on the web and tech writers will come and we’ll get some buzz and maybe some VC money and if we get real lucky somebody will buy us for a zillion […]