Utterz: another nanoblog service
Utterz is yet another nanoblogging service like Twitter, but it has special powers for mobile phone users: You can post audio, pictures, and video from any device straight into your pre-existing blog. Read more
Review of Web 2.0 apps
Useful vs. Flashy = Zoho vs. Adobe
Rafe Needleman recently took at look at two Web-based productivity apps, Zoho’s new database, Zoho DB, and Adobe’s new word processor, BuzzWord. The apps showcase different schools of thought in Web 2.0 product development. On the one hand, we have Zoho, which continues to push out Web-based productivity apps that are functional, but not flashy. They’re apps for people who know what they want. And then there’s Adobe’s BuzzWord, a Web-based word processor that will seduce you with its gorgeous user interface but abandon you when you need to get real work done–like putting the text you create on a Web page.These two apps highlight how very early we are in the Web 2.0 development cycle. Apps should be gorgeous and functional. Certainly it’s technically feasible. We need to wait for the developers to catch up, though.
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THE DYNAMICS OF DIABETES
A most important seminar for the community by leading expert DR ADAM FRASER. Learn how to prevent and deal with this destructive social problem.
DATE: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 TIME: 7:00 pm LOCATION: Sutherland United Services Club, 7 East Parade, SUTHERLAND, NSW COST: Gold Coin Donation
PLEASE CALL TO REGISTER: 02 9542 4029 PO Box 799 Sutherland, NSW 1499
October Sleepers Salon
The October Sleepers Salon is the last one for the year. Come talk books and writing, and listen to some wordsmiths shake their verbal tushes.
+++ Sleepers Salon showcases Melbourne’s Writing Courses +++ Featuring readings from some of the best emerging talent that Melbourne has to offer, as well as Antoni Jach in conversation with Sonia Orchard, not to mention the mandatory Sleepers mayhem.
Date: Thursday 25th October 2007 Time: 8pm-10pm Where: The Trades Hall Bar, cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton Cost: $6 Sponsored by The City of Melbourne Enquiries: sleepers@sleeperspublishing.com
*** SALE *** Our Spring Sale is still on! For ridiculously cheap bundles of Sleepers books, go to http://www.sleeperspublishing.com/shop.html
60-year old single mom-to-be
If you thought giving birth in your 40’s was risky, the envelope has been well and truly pushed out by the news that a 60-year old woman living in Suwa, Nagano, has successfully undergone in-vitro fertilization in the USA. The woman is 15 weeks into her pregnancy and is apparently doing well. If she does give birth, she will become the world’s oldest single new mom. Elsewhere in the world, a 66-year old married Romanian woman gave birth in 2005, and in the UK in 2006 a 63-year old married woman did so.
Source: TT commentary from ap.google.com, Oct 4, 2007)