Google has unveiled a new program called "wave" at the google IO. The program was written by Lars Rasmussen who previously created Google Maps.
This is a new way to look at e-mail. Waves is a little like e-mail, blogger, and instant messaging all in one. If you choose your messages will instantly display on a blog, in an e-mail and and instantly in an IM. People can comunitact at the same document at the very same time.
The program is a little buggy, but still very cool. The part I liked best was the ability to display what the person is typing as they type it. This technology is only availible in HTML 5, and only with opensource browsers - Sorry IE users you will have to get something else.
Here is a photo of me with Vic Gundotra last night. Vic is the vice president of Engineering at Google.
A gathering of 4000 of the best and smartest programmers in the world is occurring right now at the google I/O. This conference is confirming to me that Mozenda and web data mining is the place to be. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt used the term "mashing together" in reference to data and web applications during his keynote address and then again 30 minutes later a reference was made to Mashups it only proves to me the need to mine out and aggregate web content. I have to say that the best part so far has to be the free Google Android phone that is being passed out to all conference goers. Googles goal with this is to give them to us and have programmers build applications on their open environment to strengthen the usability of their phone.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 13th, Michael Sterner's worst fears were realized. The 127 year old Duluth, MN manufacturer's web development company fell victim to a system error stopping sales and causing critical data to be lost.
"Our web development company was charging us for website management and hosting. Naturally, I assumed that our data was safe. We patched things together but had to limp through the rest of the holiday season with missing product information. These were very expensive lessons to learn."
After the holidays Michael Sterner researched ways to back up his data, but because the site was created by a separate firm he had no access to the it. "I could see all of the information I needed on the site, but we had no way to get at the data."
After doing some research, Sterner found Mozenda. "At first, the software seemed too good to be true. Mozenda was able to harvest all of the data from duluthpack.com and replicate our database without ever seeing it."
By means of Mozenda's (Website Data Extraction) technology, Internet retailer Duluth Pack was able to obtain its critical assets and build an offsite back-up for the company's entire system, much of it previously inaccessible.
About Duluth Pack
Duluth Pack has been manufacturing quality canvas and leather goods in Duluth, Minnesota Since 1882. The company makes everything from its original canoe packs, to high quality canvas and leather luggage, business gear, school bags, hunting gear and more. Every pack they make comes with a Lifetime Guarantee, a testament of the commitment to quality they have had for 127 years.
For more information about Duluth Pack visit www.duluthpack.com
About Mozenda
MOZENDA is a Salt Lake City tech firm specializing in the development and sale of (web data extraction software tools).
Its cornerstone product is the patent-pending Web Agent Builder 2.0, a web data extraction tool that grabs precise website content and organizes it into useable formats.
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