Bookmarks vom 29-01-2009

Kostengünstige Laptops werden immer populärer. Sie bringen zwar keine hohe Leistung, genügen aber für einfache Anwendungen wie für Internet und Textverarbeitung völlig. Gerade in der Krise.

Die Möglichkeit, sich aus kleinteiligen Elementen eine Gesamterfahrung zusammenzusetzen, zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die jüngsten Entwicklungen des Webs. Eine Analyse.

Earlier this week we posted a Guide to Recommender Systems, as part of our series on recommendation technologies. In this post we look at some of the challenges in building or deploying a recommender system.

Adobe has announced that they’ve recorded 100 million successful installations of Adobe AIR, the company’s cross-platform runtime environment for RIAs, at the same time boasting that the newest version of Adobe Flash Player (10) was installed on over half of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its release.

But don't be so quick to write Facebook apps off just yet. There is a new breed of app that may very well be more powerful than several poking and parking apps combined — and draw even more attention to Facebook's split personality as both a media property and a platform.

Analyst firm Gartner has just released a report that highlights eight up-and-coming mobile technologies which they predict will impact the mobile industry over the course of the next two years. According to Nick Jones, vice president and analyst at the firm, the technologies they've identified will evolve quickly and will likely pose issues that will have to be addressed by short term strategies.