Bob Walsh Archives

DEMO 2008: KonoLive – Next Generation Web Worker Collaboration

By Bob Walsh Jan. 28, 2008, 1:16pm PT 6 Comments

Online collaboration makes the Web Worker world go around, but for most web workers, that means patching together a spiderweb of emailed Microsoft documents, IM mentions of web sites to see and even vague pointers to where to look in that YouTube video for the moment… Read More »

Web Workers to Rush Limbaugh: We Don't Need You Anymore

By Bob Walsh Jan. 23, 2008, 1:14pm PT 3 Comments

For those times when your best and brightest isn’t required in front of your PC or Mac, there’s talk radio Internet style at blogtalkradio.com, offering up about 400 shows a day on everything from the paranormal to who scored the most points in last night’s… Read More »

Web 2.0 meets Human Body 1.0

By Bob Walsh Jan. 21, 2008, 3:21pm PT 8 Comments

If your New Year’s Resolution to get fit is still under construction 21 days later, here’s a quick set of Web 2.0 sites combining social networking, online record keeping and solid health and fitness information for your consideration. Note – If it has been years since you’ve… Read More »

Sun makes the M in LAMP stand for Money

By Bob Walsh Jan. 16, 2008, 12:00pm PT 3 Comments

In a move designed to make MySQL enterprise friendly, give prospective IT hardware buyers more reasons to consider Sun and further fuel Microsoft’s Open Source heartburn, Sun announced today it is acquiring MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and debt. “We’re putting a billion dollars behind… Read More »

Google opens iGoogle Theme Directory

By Bob Walsh Jan. 16, 2008, 9:00am PT 6 Comments

Dressing up your iGoogle just got easier with Google’s launch of a theme directory where you people can submit, rate and select new theme’s for their personalized search portal. For the first time anyone can create and submit a theme for iGoogle – so long as… Read More »

Open Thread: is Network Solutions Evil?

By Bob Walsh Jan. 14, 2008, 2:35pm PT 32 Comments

What if you found the perfect URL for your new online company, only to find out that the company that you used to check it bought it themselves to sell to you for an inflated price? Network Solutions has run afoul of bloggers, domain registry… Read More »

Dress up your iGoogle

By Bob Walsh Jan. 9, 2008, 2:00pm PT 8 Comments

Tired of the same blah iGoogle look day after day? There’s a spiffy Google Gadget by Greg Bullock: Custom iGoogle Skins V.2. Besides the 50 or so custom themes submitted so far on topics ranging from Canada to the Mac OS X, you can… Read More »

Zotero: A Serious Online Research Tool