Software Soapbox

Google Waves ByeBye!

The California-based Internet titan also said that the Wave collaborative communication tool it stopped developing more than a year ago would finally hit the beach and be gone at the end of April next year.

via news.yahoo.com

Soapgate Q! 2.5 goes open source

We decided to publish soapgate Q! - our generic web service based data access API for Lotus Notes Domino - as open source under GNU Affero General Public License - Version 3 (APGL V3)

via flexdomino.blogspot.com

Kayak answers the age old question, when are holiday airfares cheapest?

We asked Kayak and the company responded with tons of delicious data. The most important bit is this: The best time to buy a plane ticket for the December holidays is the first week of December, up until the 10th. You still have time! And if you don’t have a ticket for Thanksgiving yet, well, family is more important than money.

via venturebeat.com

Lost cousins unite thanks to Holocaust database

It was just the latest successful byproduct of the memorial's database, established years ago as a means of commemoration aimed at gathering the exact names of all the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide. But since the database went online in 2004, it has become a powerful genealogy tool that has led to hundreds of emotional reunions of long lost families.

via news.yahoo.com

Google unveils Android-based online music store

Google has launched an online music store in the US, which will allow devices running its Android software to buy, store and stream MP3 files.

via www.bbc.co.uk

Draconian copyright bill hits the Internet buzz saw

The Stop Online Piracy Act, a controversial nutty, delusional and shortsighted bill created by people who could be construed as idiots, is hitting a buzzsaw of Internet opposition. Large companies are also starting to tabulate their potential compliance costs.

via news.cnet.com

Egypt closes Great Pyramid after rumors of rituals

"Everything is normal," he said. "The only thing different is the closure of the Khufu pyramid."

via news.yahoo.com

Looking forward to CES 2012 in January!

All conferences should have promos like this...Great stuff!

 

 

Hey! SameTime ads on Youtube!

Saw this video today - "Surfer almost swallowed by Whale"- check out the Google SameTime Ad!

 

A good question for the future of the Lotus Platform (whatever the name is)

Over at vowe's blog people are counting the number of Lotuspheres they've been to.....Impressive numbers but....How about a better question for the future of the platform - who will be going for the first time?