Webcast: Palm’s CTO details webOS for developers
Palm’s new Pre device and its accompanying webOS platform have stirred up a lot of excitement in the mobile application development community. Unfortunately, only a select group of larger developers (Facebook, Pandora and TeleNav, to name a few) have been given access to the software development kit (SDK) so far.
For everyone else, Palm unveiled the first chapter of the book “Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript using Palm Mojo Framework,” written by its chief technology… Continue Reading
Roundup: Brin’s blog, O’Reilly gets serious, Joost’s browser version goes live and more
Here’s the latest action:
Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin starts his own blog — Dubbed “too“, Brin starts off by detailing his fears of getting Parkinson’s disease since it runs in his family. Compelling stuff. Too bad it’s nearly impossible to read with his choice of light blue text on a black background. CNET has more.
O’Reilly gets serious — Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, used his keynote address at the Web 2.0 Expo in Las Vegas to call… Continue Reading
Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more
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The latest round-up from tech-land:
Second Life hype continues — Sun holds a conference in the virtual world, and pisses off a journalist, who has a point. Why make it so tough for people to get to your message? But that hasn’t deterred others from joining the trend. Dell did something similar. And now Second Life has launched a business plan competition for “resident” entrepreneurs. The prize is a little less than US$2k, but it does include… Continue Reading
O’Reilly takes over Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0, renames it Release 2.0
Tim O’Reilly, of O’Reilly Media has acquired analyst Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 publication, and is renaming it Release 2.0 to help promote the Web 2.0 brand, which was coined by and is owned by O’Reilly’s group.
O’Reilly confirmed the story, first reported at Valleywag, however told VentureBeat that “taken over” is a more accurate term to describe the transaction than “bought,” without elaborating. We’ll take this to mean that the publication wasn’t pulling in that much… Continue Reading