The world is gathering for a great event in June 2006. No, not the soccer world championchips. It’s Reboot-Time again. After being in Copenhagen last year I will attend this phenomenal event this year again.
This year Jesse James Garret might even be among the speakers. He did not yet confirm but I hope he will. I’d love to have him at the conference.
For all people that install Apache on their local desktop – close Skype before you want to run it and then start Skype. Otherwise Apache won’t start. I think this can’t be mentioned often enough.
Jason Fried from 37signals pointed out Google’s plans to build up an office suite. He thinks that Google’s products will have only 80% of Microsoft’s products functionality. I’ll agree. Writely(just bought by Google) has everything you need as a Word processing application.
The question now, what’s next. They do have a Email service, Word processor, Calendar. So the next thing might be a Spreadsheet application. Here it is: iRows. Great product that needs maybe some more code and then can be sold to Google.
I predict around June 2006. What’s your guess?
It’s up and running again – the tool to help you reduce the image size for preview images.
Microsoft just lunched their new beta web search live.com. It is part of their new AJAXed applications and introduces a new interaction modell when scrolling through search results.
First, after you enter the adress www.live.com you see only the search box. After some seconds the content gets created dynamically via AJAX-techniques (actually this might even be some more, since the HTML-code shows some MS-tags).
When you search the results are displayed in a box below the search box. There are two things now that draw my attention.
Dynamically updating list
Initially the list shows 9 entries. When you scroll down, the site retrieves additional results dynamically and adds them to the previous shown ones. So you now see some more entries. How much is depending how you scroll which is different as on other sites.
Scrolling updates the list
The really fancy thing about the results part is that it loads new results dynamically in the list as you scroll down the list. If you scroll not too fast you will scroll, scroll, and scroll some more until you have all search results in the list. This is really neat. The drawback is that you have to be in the results are to use it. It doesn’t start with the scroll wheel from the beginning.
I haven’t yet decided if I really like it or not since it changes the way a site is perceived and people can interact with. However, it is a good starting point for many other uses.