links for 2006-11-17

• Amazon Rolls Out its Visionary WebOS Strategy
  
  
  "WebOS services are going to be utilized by thousands of companies - and will power the next generation of web applications."
  
  
  (tags: webapps2.0 webos)
  
  

links for 2006-11-04

• Zopa (UK) - The first lending and borrowing exchange
  
  
  Zopa is the first marketplace for lending and borrowing. Trustworthy people lend money directly to other trustworthy people – and by dealing with each other, rather than banks, they've formed a community of savvy, like-minded individuals.
  
  
  (tags: microfinance)
  
  

links for 2006-11-03

• Web office is about collaboration
  
  
  "So, where don't Word and Excel compete well today? The very place that online tools shine: collaboration. Microsoft would like you to believe that that's why your enterprise needs SharePoint, but that's just another form of lock in and ignores that fact
  
  
  (tags: office2.0 collaboration)
  
  
• 6 Technical Barriers for Office 2.0
  
  
  Offline Usage, Single Sign-On, Data Ownership and Privacy, Data Synchronization, Ease of Migration, Fragility of Aggregated Services
  
  
  (tags: office2.0 collaboration saas)