It looks like our move into the browser is by now inescapable, as more and more applications are moving to the web.  For me, a major milestone was reached about a month ago, when I moved my work e-mail account to Google Apps, where it now lives together with the rest of my e-mail accounts.  Of all my desktop apps that see heavy daily use, the next in the list...

Sliderocket, the online presentation tool, has today come out of private beta and is now public, open to all.  If you did not get in to the private round, you’ve got to check this out now.  Sliderocket is one of the most fantastic web apps out there.  It has features that help you create stunning presentations very easily, and is organized in a...

Just heard through Twitter that Twhirl, my (and most everyone’s) favorite Twitter client, has added support for identi.ca in a still unreleased beta version.  identi.ca, for those who haven’t heard about it, is a Twitter clone that is based on the Laconica open source microblogging platform, which allows anyone with access to a web server to host...

Polar Rose, a facial recognition based search engine that allows you to find photos of people by their name, is getting ready to enter public beta.  Yesterday I received an e-mail from them with my invite (at last, I was subscribed since around November 2006!), and their blog states that they have  a “public beta coming up“. Polar Rose works by...

Read it at Andrew Dobrow’s blog: as a protest against Twitter’s continuing availability issues, he sugests people take o while day off Twitter.  I’m all for it, definitely.  Even if I’m not one of the biggest Twitter users out there, I do really enjoy it – it’s just a pity that I live so far from civilization…  And as...