Technology trends
- ZDNet reports that antivirus software moves out of your computer to a network cloud.
This next-generation antivirus system ‘virtualizes and parallelizes detection functionality with multiple antivirus engines, significantly increasing overall protection,’ according to the team leader. Even if the results look promising, it should be noted that this is just an academics project for the moment.
- Do you need an operating system to load (forever sometimes…) for your minimum functionality of seeing your emails, look up your calender for schedules and write a few letters? No, as the “instant ON” and other technologies that Intel and Dell are putting on the PCs. OS is going to be one of the applications that will run on the hardware “as required”. So the days of OS being the fundamental veda of the computer are getting numbered!
Read about the “end run around the OS” on ZDNet.
The next web
If you are keen on getting a “Wow” from your date and flaunt your geeky erudition to the gullible, you should nonchalantly drop such pieces of jargon as Web 2.0, Mashup, Semantic web and all that jazz.
But it seems the exotic Semantic Web is really round the corner and is sure to revolutionize the way we use the web to get information. Simply “Googling” for it is going to be passé. Here is what ZDNet has to say about the phenomenon that is ushering in a paradigm shift on the internet:
Google is essentially a media company - as Tom Foremski succinctly points out here - logging your actions for Ad Word generation like a supermarket rewards card program while leveraging brute force search of the indexed web as you search for your keywords and phrases.
Wikipedia is essentially a single destination site, which means lots of laborious single issue searching.
The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information on the web.
This semantic, machine-read next generation enables much richer search. So if you are looking for information about pinball machines for example, this Freebase example gives you a rich contextual grouping of related and highly relevant information.
Read more about on ZDNet.
Microsoft Office vs Open Office
Two pertinent questions have been raised by Paul Murphy in ZdNet seeking real-life experience with the comparative features of both the Office suites, the ubiquitous proprietary Office of Microsoft and the Opensource Open Office.
The comments recorded by the users make a highly educative and illuminating treatise on the individual aspects of both the programs and the merits in each. A must read by all.
Here is the flat view of all the 122+ comments.
ZDNet’s description of WordPress
ZDNet has vividly and succinctly portrayed WordPress in its download page like this:
WordPress is a personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.Version 2.3, named “Dexter” for saxophonist Dexter Gordon, adds native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and other new features.
I really feel nostalgic about my b2 days - I miss you, Michel Valdrighi!
Bloggers being hired by ZDNet
ZDNet, the technology news web site (now a part of C|Net Portal) is hiring Bloggers. Yes. If you are a confident blogger with a flowery keyboard skills, try knocking at their door.
Here is the news in full:
We’re looking for a few good bloggers
Do you have a passion for technology? Want to share your from-the-trenches perspective with ZDNet’s readers? ZDNet is expanding its coverage with a series of new blogs on a variety of business and technology topics. We’re also seeking lT execs to contribute to our blogs covering the education and government fields.
What’s your area of expertise?
If you’ve got great credentials, good writing ability, and passionate authenticity, we’d like to hear from you. Please send an e-mail–with your full name, preferred daytime contact information, and a relevant writing sample–to David Grober. And yes, we’ll pay for steady, high-quality blogging.
So, blogging has really come of age!
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