Bill Gates moves from Microsoft to charity

Link: CNN.com This was unexpected news. Bill Gates has decided to hand over the lion’s share of Microsoft’s reins and concentrate on the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation charity he and his wife built. Good for him. Let’s hope Microsoft continues to make people’s lives easier while Bill and his wife continue to make people’s […]

Google moves Picasa from PC to web

Link: Picasa Web Looks like Google has finally started moving from PC-centric thinking–overtaking the user desktop–to web-based thinking–overtaking the internets. I use Picasa, and I love the program for its astounding ability to keep my thousands of photos on my PC organized. It’s easy to find the pictures I want and edit them, reduce red-eye, […]

Will Firefox users flock to Flock?

Link: Flock The new kid on the block, Flock, is supposedly launching their first public beta sometime this afternoon/evening/night (version 0.7 — internally referred to as "Cardinal"). The theory behind the new browser is basically web 2.0. It's social. It's efficient. It's integrated. Bookmarks are stored on del.icio.us and displayed within the browser via a […]

Google’s GBuy hopes to topple PayPal giant

Link: Tech News on ZDNet Looks like Google has an upcoming online payment system called GBuy that could eventually rip control of online payments from eBay's PayPal system (if you didn't already know, eBay purchased PayPal back in 2002 for 1.5 million dollars). "Google's payment system, as a result, holds the potential to monitor which […]

The future of the “chat room”

Link: Skypecasts A new update to Skype available today (bringing it up to version 2.5) will introduce a new feature called Skypecasts, which will allow for up to 100 simultaneous connections via a hosted user component. A Skypecast directory is available to allow you to search for discussion topics in which you can join in.

Coogle Galendar

Link: Google Calendar Heavens above, I’ve been waiting a long time for this. I’m a self-proclaimed Google-whore, I won’t hide it, but I’ve been holding out for a quality internet-based calendar that I could share with my friends that isn’t a monstrosity to manage. I used the damnable Hotmail calendar for a little while, but […]