Links of Note: May 29, 2007
Web Apps:Google Apps Partner Edition
Google continues to use its ever-growing suite of online applications to nip at Microsoft's heels. Today it took the wraps off Google Apps Partner Edition, which is aimed at "ISPs, portals, and other service providers." The suite includes Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Start Page (a portal page), Docs & Spreadsheets, Page Creator (simple Web-based HTML editor), an admin control panel, APIs and and 24/7 support.
Emerging Technology:
Microsoft to take the wraps off ‘PlayTable’ (ZDNet)
Update 5/30: Microsoft has renamed this product Microsoft Surface. More information is available here.
Microsoft's "PlayTable" tech uses gestures and object recognition to manipulate software. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley says PlayTable will be formally unveiled (and, presumably, renamed), next week:
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates also provided a PlayTable-related technology demo during his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address in 2006, when he placed a cell phone containing digital photos on a tabletop device and all the pictures “flew out of it” and could be manipulated by touch and gestures. Microsoft has shown similar surface-computing-type demos at a handful of other conferences and events.
Here's a video that shows how the technology works (sorta)
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