Research and writing tools

"Clipping" from sites as you read them - to bolster a point, riff on the news, or to save ideas for later exploration - is incredibly helpful. Bookmarking pages is great; noting the specific parts of the page that caught your interest in the first place is even better. There are a good number of…

The Next Netbooks

From TechCrunch: Small screens, small keyboards and underpowered hardware make for a less than stellar Netbook user experience ... users will download Jolicloud to their Netbooks and then install it. Whatever operating system and software is on the computer will be wiped off, and replaced with a stripped down Linux operating system and custom browser.…

Good Crowd in the Cloud

A collegue forwarded this note about a new Aptana product release.  Joyent is a competitor to Amazon Web Services. They're significantly smaller, but recently, Aptana released beta software that makes deployments to Joyent's cloud pretty simple. photo credit: ecstaticist They currently support standard LAMP deployments; plans include Rails and Python. Aptana's got a good history…

iphones and clouds

The 2.02 update helps some. I can listen to music while playing poker. Mobile me is a possibility. A trial to ensue it hooks up well with the google apps running our intranet. With that running in the ether, thoughts turn to other environments doing so. There are a number of interesting possibilities. I'd like…