Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Rich Internet Applications make big splash on PCWorld's top 25 sites to watch
- It looks like PCWorld thinks Rich Internet Applications RIAs are going to be a big thing to watch this year because their list of the Top 25 sites to watch has a few recognizable names. The first is Popfly, Microsoft's mashup creator that is targeted at geeks and average users...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Media, Goowy, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- yourminis opens up the widget platform, releases API
- Tonight yourminis announced the availability of their API, giving developers a way to build widgets and upload them. In addition, the team released an analytics application that will help you track where your widget is going and how many people are using it. All of this is under a developers...
- Tags: yourminis, Rich Internet Applications, Goowy, Flash, Apollo
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Yourminis gets a makeover, starts talking Apollo
- Yourminis released a new version of their site today to focus more on widgets and themed based pages that contain information all relating to a single interest. The new HTML based start page also looks like its aimed at introducing users to the yourminis experience and allowing them to pick...
- Tags: Flash, Goowy, Rich Internet Applications, Rich Widgets, yourminis
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, January 09, 2007
- I noticed that Jeremy Suriel of Goowy and Yourminis has a blog. Hes got a lot of experience in building RIAs and Im looking forward to reading what he has to say. Aral Balkan has a detailed writeup of the FlashFoward MacWorld Keynote. There were some good demos and...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flash, Yahoo, Windows Presentation Foundation, Goowy, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- yourminis - Widgets and a Rich Internet Application
- If you track the ever-profound blogosphere, you know that Widgets are the new black. In fact, on Monday there was even an entire conference to talk about the resurgence in Widgets - Widgets Live! The widget obsession is something that baffles me in many ways; Im not sure I...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience, Flash
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Goowy Media launches yourminis
- Congrats to Alex and the team at Goowy Media on immediately being named Adobe Site of the Day after launching their yourminis Flash widget site this morning. I've only have a brief amount of to play around with yourminis but there's some powerful fun to be had constructing a Dashboard-style...
- Tags: Software, Web Apps, Goowy
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
Additional Resources
- AOL Bebo-tizes its social properties; Forms People Networks unit
- AOL said Monday that it has closed the $850 million purchase of Bebo and has put Bebo CEO Joanna Shields in charge of the newly acquired social network, AIM and ICQ. Shields will be in charge of a new AOL unit dubbed "People Networks." The general theme...
- Tags: Bebo, Network, America Online Inc., Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Lots of motivation for creating rich internet applications
- Lots of motivation for creating rich internet applicationsRichness is not an all or nothing propositionI regularly teach a course on designing RIAs and one of the things I'm always challenging my students to think about is to not think of an RIA as an all or nothing proposition.While I agree...
- Tags: motivation, Richness, Flickr, rich Internet application, richness
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- Rich Internet Applications I couldn't live without
- After seeing Mike Arringtons post about Web 2.0 companies he cant live without, I thought an RIA-themed version would be fun to do. Im also very curious which RIAs you use on a daily basis, so if I missed any, leave them in the comments. Goowy This year...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Ive, Pandora, Jumpcut, Brightcove, video, RIA, Macromedia Flash Player, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- The Resurgence of Flash
- When Flash first started taking off in the late 1990s, it was the first time most people saw animation on the web. For a lot of people, Flash gave them a way to create web experiences that hadnt been possible before. It was exciting, it was pretty easy to jump...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Experience, Flash, Yahoo, Google, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Mark Cuban says Google is crazy with YouTube
- Mark Cuban has spoken out on Googles acquisition of YouTube and thinks Google is crazy and has landed itself in a field of litigation landmines. Cuban was quoted last month saying that only a "moron" would purchase YouTube and he may have a point. Cuban certainly knows a...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Google Inc., YouTube, Mark Cuban
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Rich Internet Applications are the bridge between the web and the desktop
- I caught a post over on Read/Write Web written by Ebrahim Ezzy regarding Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps. He compares a host of "WebOS" applications which he groups Goowy in with to webified desktop applications including iTunes and the New York Times Reader. I've started having this discussion...
- Tags: Desktops, desktop, Rich Internet Applications, Web, Ebrahim Ezzy
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- EyeOS - Case Study on how people are using a WebOS
- A few months ago I wrote a series of posts Most EyeOS users see it as "a virtual web desktop" on what I termed the WebOS, a web-based Operating System. Most of the feedback from ZDNet readers was about why anyone would need...
- Tags: EyeOS
- Blog posts 2006-08-07
- Supernova: The Future of the Desktop
- Panelists: Lili Cheng Microsoft, Tom Ngo NextPage, Gary Benitt Goowy, Chris Thomas Intel, Kevin Lynch Adobe Panel intro by Kevin Werbach from program: "Windows and Mac OS, the dominant computer interfaces of our time, are two decades old. And the standard office productivity software suite is not much younger. Have...
- Tags: Lili, Tom, desktop, decentralization
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- RSS Round Up and the Rich Internet
- I wrote up a guest post for Richard McManus on Read/Write Web which talked about feed readers and gave a run down on the various types of readers out there. Richard took it a step further and pulled out some of his favorites here on ZDNet (and I...
- Tags: RIA vision, RSS, RIA
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- Best of breed RSS Readers
- Before he joined ZDNet, Ryan Stewart was a guest blogger for my other blog Read/WriteWeb. He and I have collaborated on another post, a round-up of RSS Readers. Ryan wrote the background, dividing RSS Readers into 3 categories: web based, desktop based, and The Rich Internet Application Reader. There's some...
- Tags: RSS reader
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- WebOS market review
- My post last week about XIN, a new contender in the Web OS space, provoked some skeptical comments from ZDNet readers. It wouldn't surprise me if one of the small startups I've mentioned here goes on to become the next Linux So in this post I explain what a Web...
- Tags: WebOS Market Review
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- Running a business on Web-based software
- One premise of Enterprise Web 2.0 is that Web-based software is beginning to credibly encroach on many solution areas that traditional software previously addressed. According to proponents, this maturing method of online software delivery provides more usability, convenience, and value. The flexibility, mobility, and...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-04-14
- Consumer Web apps: Road kill or the road to success?
- I'm at IBDNetwork's Under the Radar event titled "Consumer Technology: Why Web 2.0 Matters." The one-day event, held at the Microsoft Mountain View, CA campus, brought out many of the startups list here that appear at many of the product showcase venues. The companies present and then three judges ask...
- Tags: storage, Aaron Levie
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- Ajax homepages market review
- Over the past year many new AJAX homepages, aka personalized start pages, have been introduced to the market. Microsoft and Google have offerings, as do a host of small startups. First I'll define what an AJAX homepage is, then I'll do a feature comparison between the leading...
- Tags: AJAX, Microsoft Windows Live, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts