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This blog is all about reaching the webtop stage: a web-based fully featured OS with very powerful collaborative and open web-apps.

The Office suite is THE desktop killer-app. Whereas Google has been for the last couple of years a front runner in web-apps, Zoho seems to take the lead with its impressive suite of web-based office-like apps. I didn't got the time to make a complete review, but the few ones I did saw (Zoho creator: the online database manager; and Zoho Show: the online slides creator) really impressed me a lot! Google hasn't got any, for starters. Nor Microsoft, nor Yahoo!





I guess that only time will tell what will become of Zoho, an AdventInc independent division, with business headquarters in the states, but with the lead development and programming headquarters in India.
But what really stimulates me, its their innovative approach to make great software:
They have over 120 passionate wannabe software engineers and one PhD only, the division's CEO and Zoho's arch-evangelist, Raju Vegesna. "It's about getting the right people. With the right passion." It appears that most of their developpers in India don't even have a college degree, but they train them as interns at their "Zoho University"; and that they all want to become great software engineers; with passion.
And the results ... impressive! It took them, I guess, less than a couple of years to code every app from scratch. I hear reports that they do updates several times a week for their new apps, and around every 10 days for their more stable apps. I mean, they even got an iZoho frontpage for the iPhone!





I don't know about you, but I'm really curious of the next couple of years ...
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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.

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.
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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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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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