Downtown Tech

Use Upcoming.org to Display Events

It's been a while since I've posted. I have a few tips applied to the Downtown Elgin blog that I'll be adding in the next few weeks.

You can use upcoming.org to display events on your web page that will update according to today's date. Here's how.

1) Create an account on upcoming.org
2) Select a metro area or create a new one
3) Add your events and venues
4) Mark the events to your watchlist
5) Create a badge and paste the code on your web page

The next 5 or 10 events, your choice, will be displayed on your website and automatically change with the current date. All you need to do to maintain it is add new events.

Share this with other organizations in your community and add their events to your watchlist to display on your site.

Will Google Become the New Microsoft?

I have seen many posts on Google as an operating system recently. Is this where we're headed? Will the infatuation with Google change if it takes over as king of the software world? Will there be an anti-Google sentiment. I'd love to have a single point of reference for all my information, remember Bill Gates' "Information at your Fingertips", but I get nervous about any one company possessing it all.

Marc Orchant from theunofficailmicrosoftweblog has the post "Om Malik riffs on the Google OS" which featured a Flash video called Epic 2014. You have to watch it. It is a great, eight minute video on where we've been and some fiction on where the authors feel we might be headed.

Have you seen Epic 2014? It’s a future history story, nicely done in Flash, that predicts a world where Google’s grid redefines everything from computing to the news and entertainment media. A few years ago, it was considered a charming bit of science fiction. But as the year 2014 starts looking like reality, rather than than some far-flung date in the future, Google continues to release new products/services that erode the edges of our current computing paradigm.

Om Malik's post, Google the Ultimate Deflator.

Jason Kottke's post, GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?.

One more story, Google OS by 2010 on osnews.

Google, it's not your father's search engine.
What do you think?