The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
Virgin Media will today begin moves to transfer its almost four million broadband subscribers to Google’s email service. The three existing in-house email platforms will be gradually decommissioned.
Microsoft’s chief software architect has branded Google’s Wave collaboration effort as "anti-web". Ray Ozzie told the Churchill Club in California last week that Wave violates a principle he currently holds dear - that complexity is the enemy of the web.
Last week, in a bold attempt at being relevant again, Opera Software unveiled Opera Unite, which is marketese for "web server inside a web browser." The less obvious news tidbit from the release is that Opera Software is evidently still alive, and it’s only when you’ve been clutching that single digit market share for a decade that you can convince yourself that everybody needs a web server on their computer to facilitate a revolution of sharing, openness, and all that happy horse shit.