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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
- Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to seeReally Really Want To Store On the Cloud But ...Am moving a small company (About 15 people) from an information systems design firmly rooted in 1998 to a SaaS/Online CRM/Cloud Storage Mashup model. Today's Amazon S3 outage does give one...
- Tags: startup idea, Y Combinator, server, rich Internet application
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- 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
- iPhone 2.0 and all kinds of little mobile RIAs
- iPhone 2.0 and all kinds of little mobile RIAsI agree about Flash and many other missing features...I am annoyed that there is no Flash, no Java, no MMS, no replaceable battery, no cut/copy/paste, no ability to move photos to other folders/albums, no audio/video record, no memory card slot, no stereo...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Flash memory, Cellular phones, rich Internet application, Apple iPhone, jack, High Tech Computer Corp., phone, HTC Touch, mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- 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
- A boon to the Webtop: Adobe makes indexing Flash in search easier
- It's a big day for rich Internet applications. Why? You can now find these newfangled Web applications a lot easier. Google, Yahoo and Adobe have teamed to make Flash file format content easier to find. Adobe said in a statement Tuesday that it has worked with Google...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Search Engine, Yahoo! Inc., Rich Internet Application, Flash, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- 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
- 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
- Apple finally goes RIAPlease convince me.How can RIA and privacy coexist? I mean, the same people who are delusional about the patriot act live on myspace, youtube, and facebook where privacy is valueless.i likeits a great start, I think Apple is going in right direction.RE: Apple finally goes RIAThis...
- Tags: rich Internet application, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- 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
- A Rich Internet Application for creating your own video game
- A Rich Internet Application for creating your own video gameMygamebuilder.comHi. I'm Spiderpig from MGB. It's a pretty cool site. You can make an account on the forums and send me a private message if you need any help.Have fun building games!
- Tags: Games, Corporate communications, game, rich Internet application, video game, video
- Discussion threads 2008-06-08
- Mobile advertising: "The next big wave" and a golden opportunity for RIAs
- Mobile advertising: "The next big wave" and a golden opportunity for RIAsinformation on the phone?I don't get the point in how mobile phones are more personal than my desktop-computer. Which "information on the phone" do you mean?Of course you may use the phonenumber to look up who's owning it. But...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Mobile Advertising, mobile, rich Internet application, phone, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Mobile advertising: "The next big wave" and a golden opportunity for RIAs
- Eric Schmidt has an interview that was posted today in which he declares that the next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet: Second: The most obvious large space of advertising is the mobile internet. Every German has a mobile phone. Just take the...
- Tags: Mobile Internet, Advertisement, Phone, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, Mobile Device, SMS Advertising, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Engaging with Business Banking Customers
- View this on-demand Webcast with Jeanne Capachin, Research Vice President with Financial Insights, as she examines how Rich Internet Applications RIAs can be used to solve some of the online banking problems that financial institutions are having. Learn what to do when the pace of change outside the financial...
- Tags: Financial, Actuate Corp., Financial Company, Rich Internet Application, Online Banking, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Internet, Finance
- Webcasts 2008-05-20
- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version
- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public versionCorrections/Silverlight for Linux/Silverlight for Novell Linux/that's so irrelevantWhy zdnnet is still writting about Novell & Moonlight? They are both fading into oblivion because their M$ pact and nobody cares about them anymore.RIA = irritating advertisingNobody wants intrusive RIAs to pop up...
- Tags: rich Internet application, Microsoft Silverlight, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- Introducing the User Interface Resource Center
- Late last week effectiveUI rolled out the User Interface Resource Center as a place for developers and designers to get information about various RIA technologies. They interviewed people from Adobe, Microsoft, and independent developers on a variety of topics. There's obviously a heavy user interface focus and they dive into...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- JavaFX's day in the Sun
- Dan Farber has some information about JavaFX from the JavaOne keynote today. It sounds like it wasn't a great day for demos but that we're starting to get a better picture of JavaFX and what the plans are. Michael Coté has some additional information about Sun's plans around Java as...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, JavaOne, JavaFX, Dan Farber, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Tibco planning to use Silverlight
- Tibco Software is planning to support Silverlight according to an announcement at TUCON, the Tibco User Conference, in San Francisco today. The guts of the announcement mean that Tibco will use Silverlight where customers require audio, video, or other rich user experience elements where Ajax can't be used. I'm not...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Dojo, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Silverlight going to be all over the Democratic National Convention
- Yesterday Microsoft became the "official software and HD web content provider" for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. I'm not entirely sure what the software part entails, but the HD web content provider means that we'll be seeing a lot of Silverlight content coming out of the DNC. In fact, Silverlight...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Content Provider, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Democratic National Convention, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- RIA-related talks and companies at Web 2.0 Expo
- I'm going to be heading down to Web 2.0 Expo tomorrow and in looking at the schedule I'm really excited about the presence and sponsorships of several important RIA companies. I'll first start with the talks you should be keeping an eye on and then go down the list of...
- Tags: Web, Rich Internet Application, Web 2.0, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
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