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Yet Another Cool Free Web Email

I found a link to RoundCube as I was strolling around the web the other night. Very interesting. This one looks lighter on the infrastructure than zimbra. It is basically just PHP with a very clean style. Looks interesting and … Continue reading

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Not Giving Credit Pisses Me Off

So I was looking around for news on IE7 today. I was curious when it was going to come out so the world could get rid of their CSS hacks. I found this blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/, which is designed to keep … Continue reading

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meebo – AJAX IM

A few weeks back, when talking around the office with MarkJ, Cam, and a few others about Google talk. We were noticing that they didn’t do anything special. They didn’t even do an AJAX IM client. Well, today Cam IM’d … Continue reading

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Impressive Web App – Zimbra

An open-source Outlook/Exchange killer. This is the stuff that keeps the Microsoft Office VP up at night. http://www.zimbra.com/ Wow, open source/free. Business model? Unknown. The UI is ok, but definitely could use a designers touch. Nice flash demo on their … Continue reading

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Most Expensive Delphi App Ever

When eBay bought skype, they payed many billions for an app written in Delphi. Just a little bit of that could be enough to buy Delphi or Borland 🙂

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Google OS?

Google OS Screenshots I got a link sent to me at work from MarkJ. It makes sense. They have been hiring a lot of key OS people. Who knows if this link is real or what it really says, though. … Continue reading

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New Orleans

This post describes a show that I heard a few years back. I feel bad for the residents of New Orleans, but at the same time, I feel as though they had plenty of warning. I mean on that NPR … Continue reading

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Hackathons

All this blogosphere chatter on ‘Hackathons’ inside companies makes it appear that this is a new idea. For the record, the earliest note I have for such a thing was at NeXT software. They had a thing called “Small Apps … Continue reading

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