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With the new iPhone SDK, it's just a matter of time before we see a wave of new applications. We expect a lot of popular web 2.0 apps to offer an iPhone version. Native Twitter, Facebook and Flickr clients for iPhone will run faster than their in-browser versions and will take advantage of the impressive Apple UI libraries. But there is an entirely new breed of applications also coming to iPhone. These apps simply would not be possible without a device like iPhone. The major theme of this new wave of apps will be blending of the physical and digital worlds , using iPhone as the bridge. In this post we take a look at what's coming. 1. Reality Tagging Tagging reality is not new, but will be much better done with iPhone. Here's how it will work. You take a picture of a landmark, then comment and add tags. The phone will automatically geo-tag it and send the picture to a photo sharing service on the Web. Now anyone in the world can find your picture by exact geo locatio...

Microsoft announced that the Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access. The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others. Some say that the service's launch is a direct response to Google's entry into the web office space with their Google Docs online service. If that's so, then the question now is: did Microsoft just trump Google Docs? Or does Google Docs still rule online office suites? Office Live Workspace: The Basics Before we review the features in detail, let's look at an overview of what Office Live Workspace offers. After signing up for Office Live and signing into the service (and no, you don't have to have an MSN email address to do so) , you are presented with the "Documents" area where you can upload and view files and share them with others. However, the defining feature is of this service are the "workspaces." T...

Google may eventually be displaced as the pre-eminent brand on the internet by a company that harnesses the power of next-generation web technology, the inventor of the World Wide Web has said. The search giant had developed an extremely effective way of searching for pages on the internet, Tim Berners-Lee said, but that ability paled in comparison to what could be achieved on the "web of the future", which he said would allow any piece of information — such as a photo or a bank statement — to be linked to any other. Mr Berners-Lee said that in the same way, the "current craze" for social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace would eventually be superseded by networks that connected all types of things — not just people — thanks to a ground-breaking technology known as the "semantic web". The semantic web is the term used by the computer and internet industry to describe the next phase of the web's development, and essentially involves building we...

Let’s get one thing straight from the start — before you click send on any hate mail — I am not going to predict that Mahalo will unseat Google as world’s top search engine, or drive Digg out of business, or replace Wikipedia. What I will argue is that Mahalo has an opportunity to save us from the increasing ineffectiveness of Google, Digg, and Wikipedia in one critical area. How IT professionals use the Web Before there was Internet search, IT professionals typically had a library of books and multiple stacks of magazines that they would flip through — sometimes frantically — to find the critical information they needed to do their jobs. However, if the Web has done nothing else, it has drastically reduced the amount of paper and shelf space that IT pros need, because since the late 1990’s, they have been tossing out most of their books and magazines (hopefully into recycling bins) and turning to the Web as their first stop for research and technical content. Today, most I...