Archive for October, 2006

Updated version of Pando out

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Pando makes it easy to send a large file, such as a video, over the Internet. It uses BitTorrent technology. I tried an earlier version of Pando, which was tied to email, but didn’t find it natural to use. The new version, which sports additional interfaces, is quite easy to use.
Both the [...]

OpenID

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

If you are a dedicated user of web services (Google Docs and Spreadsheets, GMail, TadaList, Wikispaces, Flickr, etc.) like I am, or a regular at various forums or online communities (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) like just about everybody else is, then you have lots of usernames and passwords to keep track of. Not I, some [...]

Libya going “1 to 1″?

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

From an article in the Africa section of the New York Times (login required)
The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008.
There are lots [...]

Google “Office” News

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Google has integrated writely.com with Google Spreadsheets. Now you visit one place (either http://writely.com or http://docs.google.com) to access your online documents and your online spreadsheets. Here’s more detail from TechCrunch.
The other news, more of a rumor, is that Google is working on offline support for Google Docs and Spreadsheets. [...]