Microsoft Acquires Photo Sharing Site WebFives

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Ah, Microsoft. Always late to the game. Maybe it’s a part of their strategy: wait until Google (Picasa Web Albums) and Yahoo (Flickr) establish solid market positions, and then develop or buy an (usually inferior) product of their own and try to corner those remaining 10% of users. This time, ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Photo Sharing

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Photo sharing – one of the biggest and most successful areas of Web 2.0, and likely to be a hotly contested area of the Open Web Awards. Flickr recently passed the 2 billion upload mark, while earlier in the year we saw Photobucket acquired by Fox Interactive for more ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Video Sharing

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Online video has been one of the major stories of 2007, with dozens of companies receiving massive amounts of funding from investors. YouTube has maintained its #1 position since being acquired by Google late last year, but up-and-comers like Metacafe, Daily Motion, and Blip.tv are hot on their heels. ...

Secure Remote Desktop Sharing with VNC on Linux

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

This article is the second half of a two-part series on secure remote desktop sharing with VNC. If you missed the first part which appeared Monday on ASP Free I d suggest skimming through it at least. The first part was an introduction to VNC connections and ...