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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

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Atlassian Embraces Open Social, Shows Strong Momentum at Summit

The Atlassian Summit 09 has just concluded in San Francisco, kicking off a busy week for coders, with Sun's Java One also happening. The 6 minute video above, shot in dynamic wobble vision from my Flip UltraHD, is of a portion of CEO...

Tags: Plug-in, Atlassian Summit 09, Mike Cannon-Brooke, Collaboration Component, Confluence 3 Confluence, Kap IT, Wiki, Collaboration, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-03

(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)

(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)ProximityWhile North America tends to have affluent and poor areas of town, many countries don't work that way. You can walk along a canal of slums in S.E.Asia and hit the entrance to one of the wealthiest neighborhoods. They're not ten meters apart.Inclusão Digitalpost duplicadoInclusão DigitalParabéns pela...

Tags: Vertical industries, city name, slum, Paulo Perantunes, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game?

Sun Microsystems on Thursday will launch the JavaFX preview release as it aims to round up its bevy of Java developers to be a player in rich Internet applications. The preview release gives designers, web scripters and developers a peek at Sun's tools to make RIAs across...

Tags: Game, Adobe Systems Inc., Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Seeking the iPhone in Adobe's annual analyst briefings

Even if you're not an analyst, Adobe's 2008 financial briefings available online make interesting viewing, from its showcase of new AIR tools to the "soul" of Adobe, Google and Microsoft. And then there's the iPhone. The recordings cover the morning and afternoon sessions...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft

Today Microsoft is unveiling Ray Ozzie's project, Microsoft Live Mesh, which can best be summed up in the words of Mary Jo Foley - "a Software + Services platform for synchronization and collaboration." In simple terms, I think it's being able to interact with your data anywhere you go across...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Live Mesh, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-04-22

We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it

Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-27

The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007

Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Platform, Idea, Business, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-12-27

Is a Java power play lurking beneath Google's Open Handset Alliance?

On the heels of today's announcement by Google of the Open Handset Alliance, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has published a blog headlined Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community! The blog entry goes onto categorize the initial OHA platform called Android as Google's "new Java/Linux phone platform." Writes Schwartz:...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Free Software Foundation, Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Blog Entry, OHA, Android, JavaFX, Openhandsetalliance.com, JME, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Silverlight as the driver for Microsoft's services

Much has been made of the fact that Ray Ozzie's big vision revolves around services. Today we're getting some screenshots of the Office Live Workplace. The question is whether they will be cross-platform and how Microsoft can compete in a fairly crowded space. It's been interesting to watch Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Sliverlight, Ray, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-10-17

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise

For well over a year now we've seen reports and announcements from a major industry analyst firms and others tracking the movement of Web 2.0 ideas into the enterprise. Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey, and many others have all weighed in on the trends or made recommendations, sometimes cautious and sometimes...

Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Complexity, Product, Tagging, Business, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Syndication, User Experience, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...

Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-07-23

JavaFX: Sun's Late Start in RIA Race

Sun crossed the open source Java finish line when it announced it was releasing the remaining bits of the Java SE Standard Edition Development Kit under version 2 of the GNU General Public License at the 2007 JavaOne Conference in May 2005. Meanwhile, its other big announcement, JavaFX, largely was...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Jupitermedia Corp., Programming, Programming Languages, Java, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-05-15

Mobile RIAs: Java, Apollo, and Silverlight's deathmatch? If so, what of Eclipse v. Netbeans?

Last week, while at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun drew some major lines in the sand for Java and now, about the only thing we can do is sit back and watch to see what happens. If I had to sum up what I heard, it's that the...

Tags: General, Mobile, Software Infrastructure, Web technology, Wired &, Wireless

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Oracle says future of SOA is EDA; ditches 'SOA 2.0'

Oracle says future of SOA is EDA; ditches 'SOA 2.0'Java One had its fullest turnout in yearsThe writer is trying to create a false reality with this article. Or it is designed to get a response. I will bite. The JavaFX business is huge because it challenges Adobe Flash technology...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), AJAX, Web services, Oracle Corp., JavaFX, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-05-14

Why Rich Internet Applications are important for the browser

At Ignite Seattle this evening I hung out with Ted Leung for a while and we chatted about Rich Internet Applications RIAs. Coming from the open source world, he always has a very interesting take on the RIA world and I always learn a ton from him. In this case,...

Tags: XULRunner, XUL, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WFP/E, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Experience, Dekoh

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Interaction Design - the next step in RIA development

Since the Expression event last week Ive been having a lot of conversations with people about Blend and what it means. Mostly they want to know how it compares to Adobes stuff and whether its worth checking out. I had sort of been wishy-washy on explaining it until I had...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience, Expression Studio

Blog posts 2007-01-22

10 Predictions for Rich Internet Applications in 2007

10 Predictions for Rich Internet Applications in 2007JFC/Swing/SWTI am surprised to see that you didn't include Java...Message has been deleted.Written by MS PR firm?This reads like a MSFT PR press hit. Just like every other trend in the last 10 years, MSFT is behind the curve. Apple and...

Tags: Programming languages, Web browsers, Web technology, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, rich Internet application, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Apollo, Java, desktop

Discussion threads 2006-12-21

First Look at Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere

Microsoft is announcing two products today which are going to make them an even bigger force in the Rich Internet Application market space. If you think about some of the things that define the world of RIAs you come up with traits like cross-platform, designer/developer workflow, rich media and a...

Tags: WPF/E, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Experience, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-04

The Resurgence of Flash

The Resurgence of Flashwhat makes it badwhat makes flash bad is bad developers. Get web development out of the hands of 'nerds' and into the minds of graphic designers and we will all benefit.QuoteQuote: "I never understood what was wrong with html".Agreed. I personally long for the days of...

Tags: graphic designer, developer

Discussion threads 2006-11-20