Google wants to buy you for $6 billion and you say no

That’s exactly what Groupon did, the leader in local daily deals. To read why, head over to Foture blog →

Likes, thumbs, stars and what is best to promote your content online

Everyone who at least once published some content online or displayed his work to public knows how crucial the evaluation buttons are. As an author you cannot wait to see how many people liked what you did, how many were disappointed and what kind of comments your audience have. Right after publishing you sit glued to your computer screen, checking every few minutes how many “likes” did you get, how many people shared your content, you are thrilled to answer every comment and when number of likes, shares and comments grow you almost hear the victory tone in your head, cause all this means it worked!!! What exactly worked? The Word Of Mouth marketing! Continue reading on Foture

How to control sharing your Facebook data using friends lists?

Few days ago Facebook launched a new functionality – Friends lists. You may have not even noticed them, which means the functionality is not critical for your Facebook activity. However, if you look deeper into it, then you discover how handy they are. Having multi language posts on your wall may be annoying – Facebook lists are the solution. They make it easy to protect your private data from some friends. A video tutorial at the end of this article will show you how to create lists and handle the privacy settings. Continue reading on Foture

Note to my readers: From now on I will be writing on the Foture blog, about pretty much the same stuff I was covering here on f055.net – I’ll keep posting excerpts of new articles, like this one, for some time, but be sure to subscribe to Foture feed to get the latest posts in your reader. Thanks!

Did Google just pulled the plug on cloud computing, or the Wave only?

Google recently dropped Wave, its revolutionary collaboration platform I wrote about last year. The general reaction is a surprise, firstly because the Wave was very innovative, though not well packaged, secondly because no longer than a few months ago Google was actively promoting Wave to business partners on the Google IO 2010. And now, they are just stopping the service, just like that. Ok, it’s not the first product they closed, but this time the ecosystem is bigger, and the consequences are higher. And an important question arise – how dependable cloud computing really is?

Google phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6.0 and what does it mean?

As a Google Apps admin I have received an email today about Google planning to stop supporting IE6 in Docs and Sites, starting March this year. They plan to eventually stop supporting that old browser on all of their services including GMail. The transition begins this week, as they will be displaying upgrade requests on said services to the users who still browse with Internet Explorer 6. What does it mean for Microsoft, Google and the Web?

The Apple Tablet fits in the future

The rumored Apple Table (iTablet, MacTablet or even TabletMac) is on the horizon with more and more stories revolving around a cheap, portable touchscreen. And since the CrunchPad is dead, and the competition take on the market is pretty bad, the upcoming Apple product seems reasonable. Even more with today’s announcement of Time Inc. and their digital magazine concept. Do you know what this means to Apple?

Wolfram|Alpha launching today and what it means for Google and search

Wolfram|Alpha knowledge search engine is set to launch online today, May 15, with a live webcast beginning at 7pm CST. A lot of hype has been made around this new project by the iconic Stephen Wolfram and his team most widely known for their brilliant Mathematica package and online math encyclopedia. We have seen a lot of attempts to create a Google killer, the last being the unfortunate Cuil. But Wolfram|Alpha is anything but a search engine — it’s not a Google killer, it’s the future.

Get Semantix - a multilingual semantic mashup

It’s been a little quiet on the blog, because I was busy developing the next version of Semantix — a semantic mashup connecting all major semantic web services that is probably the first semantic service with multi-language support. By analyzing texts, Semantix gives you smart summaries, annotates contents with keywords and categorizes them. And it’s all written in Perl, so it’s uber-cool ;) If you’d like to learn more about Semantix and get an invite to the private beta, continue reading.

Roundup on Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

So I am leaving Paris today, coming back home to the busy times of the Holidays (oh the irony). The blog will return to normal in 2 weeks time, for now just leave your laptop and go have fun, I think. That’s what I’ll do at least. Until next time - I wish you all Merry Christmas with your family and a really full blown New Year party! Happy New Year, let the 2009 be at least not worse than this one. And an annual blog roundup below, with the most interesting posts so far.

Welcome

This post is my first one on this blog about lazy d — design and development. How to make a lot of stuff with small amount of time? Don’t create yourself more problems than you already have. Or in other words — make things simple.