Trying to follow…

google is buying again. This time some technical firm for a performance boost. Didn’t know Google needed it but who knows.

The dutch channel EenVandaag has its own netvibes page. I think we need that too so maybe it is time to go to Paris and talk to the guys at netvibes. trying to convince them of our needs.

Netvibes rocks in case you didn’t know i. It had become one of my all time favourites. I use it all the time, even together with Google Ig. Howcome? Well, for one, the google apps tab in iGoogle is convenient. The gmail widget is also an all time favourite and that is about it… I think I need those two to be sure not to miss anything. And that is a marketing trick I guess because we all miss lots of things…

A new hype for a new P2P network tool to watch TV online. Used in Holland and created by a Dutch university, so not really from a consumer point of view. But maybe that is the advantage. Check it out, the link is on the right.

Working with the gadgets API of Google, it hit me that it is actually powerful code. The examples are clear, the API is good,… You can actually do a lot of stuff with the code. The widgets or gadgets that you can create with the gadgetmaker of Google are peanuts compared to what this stuff can do. Only I need the time because you have to be able to write code that runs through the DOM of the content provider.

If you compare that to the tools Apple has made to make Dashboard widgets or the tool on webwag to create widgets. Google has the right track here (no surprise) but the quality of the competitors is awesome. Maybe that is the only domain in which they can differ?

This is the start of a new age. Our first steps on the world wide web, lets hope they lead us the new places, challenges, friends,…

Let’s party….