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Information overload!

How to manage your website browsing more effectively with RSS

As an Internet Development Specialist (rough translation, GEEK) I read a lot about this wonderful place we call the interweb. A lot of which is delivered over the web. Everything from current affairs to gadget news fills my reading material and I am both better and worse off because of it.

Clients often ask me how I wade through all the content that is out there and I commonly tell them that although I read the latest content from hundreds of websites each week I very rarely actually visit the sites…

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Tags: bookmark, Browser, Firefox, Really Simple Syndication, RSS

Software as a Service

The traditional model in the computing world has been “software as a product”, that is software is boxed and sold as a physical product that users buy and then own (or at least have rights to use) forever. This concept is so ingrained that software venders who only offer their product via download, with no physical component, will display images of virtual cardboard boxes over the download button.

“Software as a service” dispenses with the idea of software ownership. Now instead of the software vender selling you their software to keep forever, they rent you the software’s capabilities for just when you need it. More »

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Tags: Abobe, Browser, CRM, Docs, Excel, Google, Microsoft, OnLive, Photoshop, Playstation, software, word, xbox

Lynx and other animals

Why text browsers are still important.

Pamela Anderson was 15 years younger the first time I saw a picture in a graphical web browser. That was an early version of Netscape Navigator on an X-Windows terminal when it took nearly half an hour to download one single image from the World Wide Web.

Before that time there was a long period when the text-only browsers were popular as they were more or less the only option to access any information on the internet. More »

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Tags: Browser, Google, JSA Digital, Lynx, Microsoft, Netscape, World Wide Web Consortium