Google Gears API Blog: Gearing up with Zoho Offline
I was moved when the other day I saw Zoho and Google, probable competitors for the web-office market, team-up informally in such a spontaneous and natural way when Zoho started using Google Gears, and trading details and facts about their own experience in web-development during an ad-hoc interview recently.
Zoho did it! They announced a read-only offline mode for their writer, the word processing unit of their full web-office suite. Interestingly they used Gears, Google's recent API that enables web-apps to go offline. This was a daring move from Zoho, particularly because Google itself hasn't yet used their Gears API on their web-based word processor, docs&spreadsheets (former Writely, recently acquired by Google). So far they only used it as a proof of concept on their reader. Is Google losing pace to the new web-office contestant located in India?
Nevertheless, this is a win-win situation as Google gets an ever growing big-gamer using their API. Google also revealed to be magnanimous by asking Zoho an informal meeting and to share experiences as peers would. Just for the record, their initial contact was made live and public in the comments section at Zoho's blog only a few hours after Zoho announced their "Geared" writer. This act of spontaneous collaboration is really touching. Big companies such as Google (and, in due time, Zoho too) are true role-models of fair-play and "don't be evil" lifestyle. Interesting times indeed.
Aug
25
What is it Snowden, Assange, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen share in common?
Below is a screenshot of the most interesting article of 2013, period. Written by one the most-influentials "good" guys of world, Julian Assange. The article deals about the promiscuity between Google top-notch executives and the White House, and how it affects both institutions policies, at the expense of the people's freedom and will. Below the article I share with you some notes I've taken.
Assange sums it all up to us in two words: "Jared Cohen", and a question "Who is he? ". It's worth it to check him out. I googled him to find out he's a futurist thinker, thinking about the disruptive reach social networks and, now, context networks can attain, world-domination-wise. A megalomaniac thinker surely, with the wits, the will, the intuition, the perception and the goal.
Assange sums it all up to us in two words: "Jared Cohen", and a question "Who is he? ". It's worth it to check him out. I googled him to find out he's a futurist thinker, thinking about the disruptive reach social networks and, now, context networks can attain, world-domination-wise. A megalomaniac thinker surely, with the wits, the will, the intuition, the perception and the goal.
Mar
20
Collaboration 2.0, where are we?
Back in 2005 I was really excited about the web2.0 concepts, the web-based APIs, mashups, and all the new publishing tools that was later to be known by 2008 as "social-media". However, back then, it really wasn't the modern facebook-ish "social-media" model that was tingling my neurones; it was rather the emergent nature of these disruptive new tools such as blogs, wikis and web-based productivity apps such as Google Docs or Zoho.
Jan
4
Drop.io was bought by Facebook and this makes furious
Because now, all the links that I had disseminated through the web with mine and my wife's phd thesis are gone. Not a good thing for the sake of publishing, right? There used to be a time when I could feel a service would be good enough so that it wouldn't fail its users. Now it appears that good enough means being bought by some bigger fish and not caring about their former users.
I trusted drop.io with a whole semester of data from my classes.
I trusted drop.io with a whole semester of data from my classes.
Dec
27
Moving from a file-system to a tweet-system
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook ... what is the REAL future of computing, as seen from 2010?
I don't know, exactly. In my last post I simply summed up Google to an advertisement company and Apple to a leisure-time company. And indeed, I still think it is what they are, and what they focus first to become, consciously.
I don't know, exactly. In my last post I simply summed up Google to an advertisement company and Apple to a leisure-time company. And indeed, I still think it is what they are, and what they focus first to become, consciously.
Dec
10
Google is an advertisement company. Apple is a leisure-time company.
Somebody wrote a while ago:
Google is an advertising company that builds popular services that command large audiences.
To which I add:
Apple is a leisure company that builds popular media-platforms that command large audiences of media-consumers.
And, to my insistence, beyond games/apps, music, movies, tv-shows, books and magazines, Apple will try hard to become a vacations, travel and experiences re-seller. It's the natural next-step for them ...
Google is an advertising company that builds popular services that command large audiences.
To which I add:
Apple is a leisure company that builds popular media-platforms that command large audiences of media-consumers.
And, to my insistence, beyond games/apps, music, movies, tv-shows, books and magazines, Apple will try hard to become a vacations, travel and experiences re-seller. It's the natural next-step for them ...
Oct
8
Going to Codebits 2010
I just got accepted to the most awesome workshop in the whole world, organized right here in Lisbon, the Codebits 2010, promoted by sapo.pt,
I'll be staying three days, in a row, in a big room packed with free wifi and free cable net access, unlimited free pizza, free cokes, free chocolate bars and a horde of PT finest geeks. I'll participate and assist to the biggest festival of creativity in PT geekdom. Missed it last year.
I'll be staying three days, in a row, in a big room packed with free wifi and free cable net access, unlimited free pizza, free cokes, free chocolate bars and a horde of PT finest geeks. I'll participate and assist to the biggest festival of creativity in PT geekdom. Missed it last year.
Oct
5
Tracking the impact of your business cards on your Google profile stats
One of the biggest pain in the butt after an exciting conference/workshop/meeting is inputing all your fresh new contacts business cards info into your digital mail/phonebook. This is a problem. An unsolved one too.
Another problem, is that you don't know who, from the meeting, after you gave them your contact, actually checked you out afterwards. You can't tell how many checked on you neither.
Here's an elegant and smart solution to alleviate this problem, provided it gets widely adopted.
Another problem, is that you don't know who, from the meeting, after you gave them your contact, actually checked you out afterwards. You can't tell how many checked on you neither.
Here's an elegant and smart solution to alleviate this problem, provided it gets widely adopted.
Jun
4
Android is for tasks and Chrome is for data.
Android is for tasks, life-hacks, body-hacks, and Chrome is for organized data, information.
At some point in the foreseeable future I expect to see an elegant merger where a next-gen browser will be the sole platform. But first, the life/body-hacks platform will need to walk the walk it has to walk, and I expect it to be, at least, a five-years march.
At some point in the foreseeable future I expect to see an elegant merger where a next-gen browser will be the sole platform. But first, the life/body-hacks platform will need to walk the walk it has to walk, and I expect it to be, at least, a five-years march.
May
14
FWD: The state of the Webtop: where are we going?
I'm reposting this entry posted back in April, in order to test some problems I'm having with the commenting systems...
Hello all, it's been a while since my last post. These last months were spent mostly dedicated to finish my unfinished thesis - Ever heard of PhD comics? No? Well, it works better than Dilbert for me. Here's a nice one ...
Hello all, it's been a while since my last post. These last months were spent mostly dedicated to finish my unfinished thesis - Ever heard of PhD comics? No? Well, it works better than Dilbert for me. Here's a nice one ...
Apr
17
The state of the webtop: where are we going?
Hello all, it's been a while since my last post. These last months were spent mostly dedicated to finish my unfinished thesis - Ever heard of PhD comics? No? Well, it works better than Dilbert for me. Here's a nice one ...
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