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  • Google Chrome OS – The Next Big Thing?

    12:20 on July 8, 2009 | 0 Comments Tweet This! | Digg This!
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    With the announcement from Google that they will start developing an operating system, which initially focuses on Netbooks but eventually spreads out from that, the whole internet started talking about it and what it could mean for the future of computing.

    There are lots of details yet to be released, but the OS will leverage online content and applications, and bring them to the desktop.  No longer do you open an Office package, or a chat application on your local PC – you’d be using Google Docs online to create that letter or Google Talk to talk to your friends – and I guess if you don’t want to use Google Apps, someone, somewhere, will need to create web-based alternatives – Microsoft Office 2012 Web Edition anyone?
    As soon as more details become available, I’ll let you know!

    What does this mean to Windows?  What does it mean to Linux distributions, especially as this will be opensource?  How about Mac OS X?  Do developers and users need to change the way they look at things? Is everything we do in 10 years going to be online?  Interesting times to come!  Let me know your thoughts.

    You can also see the blog post from Google announcing Google Chrome OS:  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

    Mashable has an article including some questions we need to know the answer to: http://mashable.com/2009/07/07/google-chrome-operating-system/

    If this takes off, and lets face it, it probably will, it looks like I’ll be creating a new post tag soon  on droptips.com with Google Chrome OS tips pretty soon!

     

  • Twitter Censors #Moonfruit

    00:14 on July 7, 2009 | 0 Comments Tweet This! | Digg This!
    Tags: , twitter, web

    For the past 6 days, Moonfruit have been running a promotion giving away Macbook Pro’s:  http://www.moonfruit.com/macbook-pro.html.  Entering the competition was really easy – on a tweet, just put “#moonfruit” somewhere, and that’s a single entry made!

    For the first few days, it was great – and, probably exceeded what Moonfruit would expect in terms of coverage – it was the top trending topic for 3 days (I think) and lots of technology blogs and news sites picked up on it – the cost of ten Macbook Pro’s certainly looked cheap compared to the coverage Moonfruit was getting because of it!

    However, it looks like Twitter have made the decision to stop #moonfruit from being a trending topic.  It was top for quite a few days before it just disappeared, with no explaination – and, words which weren’t being tweeted as much were trending.

    Moonfruit themselves have created a blog post about it, and decided to end the competition early by giving away 4 Macbook Pro’s tomorrow, instead of over the next 10 days.

    I’m quite disappointed actually – sure, the whole #moonfruit thing was a marketing exercise for Moonfruit, but still, it was an interesting tag and people were being really creative.  I normally don’t take part in these sort of things, but this one I did (and my followers will vouch for the sheer amount of tweets I put out there!) .. and lots of other people did too.  Infact, in the end, Moonfruit decided to give away extra prizes to the most creative of tweets, as some people put a lot of effort into getting #moonfruit out there.

    I’m not sure why Twitter decided to stop it from trending – I guess the whole “spam” argument got too much – and, in fairness, where will it end?  If it does carry on, and we have 100 other companies trying to do the #moonfruit thing, then Twitter may become a bit useless and just a spammers paradise.  It’s the sort of thing which works great only once.

    So, have Twitter done the right thing? Should they have allowed things like this? What should they block? Should they block more? Let me know your thoughts.

    Read the Moonfruit blog post here:  http://www.moonfruitlounge.com/post/2009/07/06/Twitter-censors-Moonfruit-What-does-it-mean-for-the-future-of-Twitocracy

     

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