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Ryan Stewart holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is now a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst. After graduating from Penn, he spent two years developing applications for the Wharton School and pushing the idea of the web as a platform for learning. Ryan...- more about Ryan Stewart »
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- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
- Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application. In doing so they saw a big increase in conversion numbers and the customers have responded well to having the...
- Tags: Entellium, Sun Java Studio Creator, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Application, Video Game, Video, CRM, Desktop Application, Games, Desktops, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to see
- Y Combinator posted a list of a bunch of different startup ideas they'd like to see and fund. It's a sizable list with 30 different thoughts waiting for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to take a shot. But what struck me most about the list was how RIA-heavy it is. I as much...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Rich Media, Site Builder, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Second version of NASDAQ MarketReplay application released
- Last week NASDAQ released version two of their Market Replay AIR application and added a couple of interesting features as well as provided some details of how the service works. Market Replay is available as a paid service and the downloadable client comes with the service. The goal of the...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Stock, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Investment, Finance, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Using Flash and Silverlight to move web standards forward
- Via John Carroll I saw a blog post by Paul Ellis in which he talks about the shortcomings of open standards, or more specifically, standards bodies, and how that affects the open web. In short, it's led to the innovation and widespread adoption of proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight....
- Tags: Innovation, Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Standards, Alex Russell, Channel Management, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Microsoft as the gate keeper of video analytics
- There's a post over on TechCrunchIT about how NBC is going to use Silverlight and the Olympics to do some audience research around how people consume digital media. Basically NBC has a ton of content that will come from the Olympics and they're planning on providing it in a number...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Windows Media, Analytics, Video, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Digital Music, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- iPhone 2.0 and all kinds of little mobile RIAs
- I generally break RIAs into three categories: browser-based, desktop, and mobile. After playing with the iPhone 2.0 firmware, checking out some of the applications, and going through the experience in the iTunes store one of the best RIA examples out there, I'm pretty convinced that the iPhone is the best...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, Mobile World, App Store, Web 2.0 Player, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- OpenLaszlo 4.1 relased with DHTML support
- I completely missed this but it looks like OpenLaszlo 4.1 has been released and it includes full support for DHTML/Ajax as well as SWF/Flash. In addition there are a number of bug fixes and overhauled documentation. Back when OpenLaszlo started showing being able to create either DHML/Ajax...
- Tags: DHTML, AJAX, Scripting Languages, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version
- Silverlight games are starting to appear. Today a press release went out announcing that Cynergy had worked on a Silverlight version of LineRider. A couple of notable things. The game is very popular. During the beta stage the game got a lot of traction and had over 46 million page...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, LineRider, Games, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- WordPress, Gears, and the converging browser/desktop
- I had a good conversation today about the browser/desktop hybrid and where the converging is going to happen. Will it be more on the desktop side or will it be more on the browser side? I think we've seen the original browser-based development model win out as more and more...
- Tags: Wordpress, Blogging, Web Browser, Desktops, Web Browsers, Hardware, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Coté
- Coté just published a video of he and James interviewing Brian Goldfarb, Product Manager in Microsoft Developer division, about Silverlight 2 and the Deep Zoom functionality. Coté got the interview while at TechEd and there's some good stuff inside about possible use cases for the Deep Zoom technology. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Search-ability in Flash
- Last night Adobe announced that we've given a special version of the Flash Player to Google and Yahoo that will more accurately let them crawl through Flash content. Even though Google has been indexing .SWF files for a while and even been able to pull out some text, they haven't...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Search Engine, Flash, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Is designing for the small screen more fun?
- I have completely fallen in love with my iPhone. As far as I can tell it comes as close to the perfectly designed device as possible and it seems like I'm discovering cool usability aspects all the time. Things like when you get a text message with a phone number...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Desktop, Application, Mobile, Mobile World, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Mobile RIAs - getting more exciting thanks to Nokia and Symbian
- Big news today for those following mobile RIAs closely. Nokia is buying the remaining 52% of Symbian that it doesn't own and making the mobile platform open source. As Steve O'Hear said, the move is "bold to say the least". At a time when everyone is trying to make a...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Open Source, Rich Internet Application, Symbian Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Practice Fusion shows off "Google Apps" for doctors
- Practice Fusion, a SaaS and ad-driven set of applications targeted at the medical market has just released a a suite of applications that they're billing as "Google Apps" for doctors. I've written about Practice Fusion before and how it's a really great example of an RIA that's aimed at the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Patient, Practice Management App, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Analytics in rich Internet applications and measuring success
- Via InsideRIA I found a blog post by Robert Hoekman Jr talking about some of the common myths of analytics today. It's a pretty good look at what people really want to accomplish when it comes to "success" on the web. If you're a news site then page views is...
- Tags: Advertisement, Analytics, Rich Internet Application, Site, Financial Planning, Finance, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Apple finally goes RIA
- I shouldn't say finally. The writing has been on the wall forever but most people couldn't figure out what the writing said. It turns out it has a name, SproutCore, an open source Javascript framework that has been getting some buzz because it may be powering the Mobile Me suite...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Apple Inc., SproutCore, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Brightcove refreshes with brand new service and new focus
- Today Brightcove, one of the first RIA companies and one of the first to use Flex, announced that they've overhauled their service and dubbed it Brightcove 3. The primary goal of the new Brightcove is to provide better support for "long-form video", or full length shows instead of smaller clips...
- Tags: Brightcove, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released
- Microsoft quietly released the bits for beta 2 of Silverlight 2 on Friday last week. This is the version that will power the Olympics and has all of the features announced at MIX earlier this year. There seems to be a bit of a performance boost over other Silverlight applications....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Silverlight, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming this week
- At TechEd today Bill Gates said that the second beta of Silverlight 2 will be available for download at the end of the week with a Go Live license. The Go Live license is similar to the one that was used late in the beta process for Silverlight 1 and...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Beta, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Adobe merging desktop and web with Acrobat 9 and Acrobat.com
- We made a few announcements today around our Acrobat 9 product and a new portal called Acrobat.com which is aimed at helping people work better. I think it's significant because as a company we've released web-based applications like Photoshop Express and Buzzword but Acrobat.com represents something of a combination between...
- Tags: Desktop, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat.com, Linux, Web Conferencing, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
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