A few weeks back, when talking around the office with MarkJ, Cam, and a few others about Google talk. We were noticing that they didn’t do anything special. They didn’t even do an AJAX IM client.
Well, today Cam IM’d me and told me about meebo. Wow! Go check it out! This is a great little web-based IM client. Very cool!
(BTW, looks like MarkJ’s post beat me to it 
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An open-source Outlook/Exchange killer. This is the stuff that keeps the Microsoft Office VP up at night.
Wow, open source/free. Business model? Unknown. The UI is ok, but definitely could use a designers touch.
Nice flash demo on their site.
It appears that the system is in Java and is quite feature rich. This makes the project a little disappointing. The system requires a huge 150 meg binary and appears to be large. I would much prefer a PHP app on top of MySQL rather than a huge system. Still, since I don’t know of any PHP apps that come close to giving me GMail style functionality. In the future, when I have some time, I’ll try this out.
When eBay bought skype, they payed many billions for an app written in Delphi.
Just a little bit of that could be enough to buy Delphi or Borland
I got a link sent to me at work from MarkJ.
It makes sense. They have been hiring a lot of key OS people. Who knows if this link is real or what it really says, though.
Prediction: if this is real, I’ll be some hacker in China nabbed the shots off of some stolen/hacked google employee laptop/desktop.
Update: Mark thinks they are fake.
Fun fun fun.
This post describes a show that I heard a few years back.
I feel bad for the residents of New Orleans, but at the same time, I feel as though they had plenty of warning. I mean on that NPR show, the warnings were extremely extremely dire. The guy was on the border of saying “uh, I would leave now”.
The people who got hit with the Tsunami…… Wow. 300,000 people just taken out without warning.
I feel for the Katrina victims, but they were warned. I mean, even during the last big one a few years back, the highways were crammed. I understand their love of the city, but they could have at least fixed these emergency exit issues. Very sad.
