Keith Yanachik

There were a series of announcements and reviews that came out lately, here’s a sample:

Google Gears has gone mobile – what a great idea.  When your mobile device can’t get a signal (such as on an airplane) but you need to do some work, you can now access your mobile apps though google gears.  Zoho runs on Google Gears, hopefully Zoho Planner is supported.  Unfortunately, Google Gears only runs on IE Mobile.

Yahoo has announced onePlace which is a mobile service designed to take your Yahoo settings and make them available on your mobile device.  Your stock portfolio is available, your favorites, your Flickr account, your My Yahoo feeds – everything is available.  Look for this to come out shortly.

Read Write Web has a good feature comparison between Google Docs and Microsoft Office Workspaces.  Google has everything between email, documents, calendars, etc.  For the life of me I can’t figure out why they don’t have a task tracking system.  Is it too easy?  Too basic for them?  It would be a hot commodity.

Flotzam, a life streaming screensaver based all on Microsoft’s new Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) put out a contest for redesigned UI.  Here’s a screencast of the winner.

Flotzam Design Contest Winner

Here are feeds to track the action going on at Sharepoint Conference 2008:

• Blogstream (via Technorati): http://feeds.technorati.com/search/SPC2008?authority=a4&language=en
• Photostream (via Flickr): http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=SPC2008&lang=en-us&format=atom
• Videostream (via MSN Soapbox): http://soapbox.msn.com/rss.aspx?searchTerm=SPC2008

You can also monitor:  http://mysharepointcommunity.com/SPC2008

ReadWriteWeb is trying to predict what app will be the big hit at SXSW, and they seem to have concluded that whatever it is, it will involve social networking.  RWW seem impressed with SocialThing, and predict that if they get their iPhone interface working by SXSW then thy’ve got a real chance at being a huge hit this year.  The idea behind the app is to allow you and your friends to keep tabs on what one-another is doing via different services available for life streaming.  From their website:

Get your digital life in order

socialthing! is a digital life manager that puts what you do online into one place. See everything that’s going on with your friends in all the sites you use, post stuff to multiple places at once and more!

Here are some photos from their flickr account:

And their iPhone interface: