links for 2008-01-17
- Gmail Manager :: Firefox Add-ons: “Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.” (tags: Firefox, Browser, extensions, extension, Email, Google, gmail)
- So what do we mean by the ‘Internet Cloud’? – Alex Barnett blog: “The Internet cloud, where the distributed and programmable network of services across the globe will serve all the data, resources and functionality we will ever use.” (tags: cloud, architecture, computing, internet, distributed, programmable, network, services)
- Real World Communications & PR: Enter the Internet Cloud: “According to Bill Gates, at week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the cloud is where he’s betting Microsoft’s future, as is Google, IBM and others.” (tags: cloud, architecture, computing, internet, distributed, programmable, network, services)
- Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database: “January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 bill (tags: Acquisitions, Business, 2008, database, internet, SQL, Sun, Web, MySQL)
- GeoNames webservice and data download: “You can either download a daily database export or use our webservices to directly access our data. This list of GeoNames web services in table format helps you get an overview over all GeoNames web services.” (tags: Data, database, Maps, mashup, webservices, services, AJAX, RSS, JSON, XML, web2.0, API, geocoding)
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous: This sucks if it happens: “Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.” (tags: facebook, copyright, Scrabulous, Games, scrabble, news, socialsoftware)
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