Posted
5:08 PM
by Gene
More doo-dads for your screen:[B]y Bill Gate’s [SIC!]
own admission, times are changing. Startup Zimbra has already developed an impressive and full-featured substitute for Microsoft’s collaborative enterprise software. This software gives users all kinds of AJAX “mash-ups,” meaning that different AJAX applications with different features are mixed together making "Frankenstein-type" programs--only they work surprisingly well. For instance, mousing over an address in an e-mail received with Zimbra causes a small Google Maps map of the address to display next to the address. Mousing over a time or date brings up your calendar of that time.Pretty soon any time you click on anything you'll get a menu with fifty options. Frankenstein may be all too apt.
And Bill's getting into the "portal" biz. Don't we have enough look-alike stations to nowhere?