Sounds familiar? SecondLife again?
[March 21, 2010] VenueGen lets businesses stage quick and easy virtual meetings.
Check out VenueGen's demonstration at DEMO Spring 2010 conference.
Yes. This time it might work. Compared to video conferencing, virtual meetings may be better in many aspects. For example, you don't need web cams; you don't need to make yourself look good at home; and you don't worry about the surrounding environment; etc. Can you think more advantages compared to video conferencing? Do you think it will get popular?
Check out more exciting new stuff at http://demo.com
March 29, 2010
March 18, 2010
HTML Link with Target to a Div
Last time I mentioned about a new trend in the web navigation mode based on within-page navigation: http://cubicle-h.blogspot.com/2009/05/web-between-page-based-navigation-and.html
Currently scripts and plug-ins need to be used to realize such a behavior. But it would be good to have this as a built-in feature of HTML and directly supported by browsers. Here is my thought:
The current <a> tag has an attribute "target", with values like "_blank", "_new", "top", etc. All these are based on the reloading of the whole page. It would be really good if the target could be set to a certain section of the page, such as the <div> tag. For example:
<a href="calendar.aspx?month=3" target="cal">Next Month</a>
<div id="cal"></div>
In this case, the page content will be directly loaded to the "cal" <div>, without special script handling, without reloading the whole page.
It would be good if HTML 5 specification and future browser can support this feature.
Currently scripts and plug-ins need to be used to realize such a behavior. But it would be good to have this as a built-in feature of HTML and directly supported by browsers. Here is my thought:
The current <a> tag has an attribute "target", with values like "_blank", "_new", "top", etc. All these are based on the reloading of the whole page. It would be really good if the target could be set to a certain section of the page, such as the <div> tag. For example:
<a href="calendar.aspx?month=3" target="cal">Next Month</a>
<div id="cal"></div>
In this case, the page content will be directly loaded to the "cal" <div>, without special script handling, without reloading the whole page.
It would be good if HTML 5 specification and future browser can support this feature.
March 5, 2010
Is Google the new Microsoft?
The European Union has just began a preliminary antitrust investigation of Google . This is very interesting. Many people cannot help but relate this to Microsoft, as Google is growing into a new IT giant that threatens Microsoft, which has been the major antitrust target for the past 10 years.
We all see Google's presence on the web today: over two thirds of the search market share and the online advertising market share. Google's growing its business from the web search to many domains: information services, e-commerce, software, platform, cellphone, etc. Such a dominance leads one frequent question: is Google a monopoly? At least the former antitrust highlight (Microsoft) thinks so. And some people think more than Microsoft (Google is a dangerous monopoly -- more than Microsoft ever was).
What do you think about Google? Is it fair to compare Google with Microsoft in the context of antitrust? Do you think Microsoft is a monopoly? Share some of your thoughts here.
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