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Curl Report: Screenshots of images from the Curl RIA report. by Ryan Stewart; Tags: Screenshot, Image, Ryan Stewart, screenshots, curl, flex, ajax, rich internet applications; Image galleries 2007-09-26
The debacle of the BBC's iPlayer: Tim Anderson has a writeup of his experience with the BBCs new iPlayer and it isn't pretty. If you aren't familiar with the iPlayer, it's a desktop player that the BBC rolled out to allow users to watch BBC programming up to 7 days after the air date. All in...; Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-08-01
Lots of motivation for creating rich internet applications: Matt Voerman, a colleague of mine at Adobe has been running a series titled RIA Motivators where he dissects the reasoning behind wanting to create rich internet applications. This is something I think a lot of people are still struggling with. James Governor has mentioned often that he likes del.icio.us...; Tags: User Interface, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-31
IronMonkey to let users write Ruby and Python on Tamarin: During Brenden Eich's keynote today at Ajax Experience West Ajaxian had the scoop, he announced that Mozilla will be creating a projects which I think are hugely significant for the rich internet application world at large and Flash developers in particular. That project is Iron Monkey, which in Brenden's words...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Ajax, AIR, Adobe, Flash; Blog posts 2007-07-26
The desktop OS will still matter, just not which one: There is some discussion today about the future of the operating system. Specifically, David Berlind and Zoli Erdos both raise the question of whether or not any desktop operating system will mater by 2010 when Windows 'Seven' ships. It's been a popular question but even at the speed with which...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-23

Extending SalesForce.com and SOA with rich internet applications: The team at Nitobi have been working on a contact management application that's built in Adobe AIR and hooks into the SalesForce.com API. They did it to show off some of their components but the actual demo is a good example of where rich internet applications can really start to...; Tags: Salesforce.com, Rich Internet Applications, Rich Enterprise Applications, Ajax, AIR; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and Flex: I just caught that Bubblemark, which is quickly becoming the RIA benchmark source added a test for JavaFX. So now with the Bubblemark tool you have the source and the applications to compare a variety of RIA technologies. According to the post, JavaFX is really slow, but it's still in...; Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, JavaFX, Flex, AIR; Blog posts 2007-07-18
Silverlight Release Candidate coming soon: On Friday Tim Sneath, an evangelist for Microsoft blogged about preparing for the release of Silverlight 1.0. It looks like we'll have a release candidate in the next couple of weeks and then probably final version a couple of weeks after that. It will be very interesting to see how...; Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft; Blog posts 2007-07-16
rich internet applications, SEO and Accessibility: One of the biggest challenges we're going to have is making sure Rich Internet Applications have the same level of accessibility as any other web application. Andrea Hill focuses on accessibility and she has been diving into RIAs lately. She's taken note of the two things that RIAs aren't really...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-15
The market adoption proves the "why" of rich internet applications: When smarter people than me start talking about Rich Internet Applications I'm always a happy camper. In this case it's Michael Coté from RedMonk who recently got a tour of Silverlight from Microsoft and wrote up an interesting perspective on the Rich Internet Application space. I enjoyed his definition of...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-12
"Time Spent" is a better metric for rich internet applications: There's a lot of commentary about the fact that Nielsen the ratings agency is no longer going to use the "page view" metric for websites and will now begin ranking themSo what does this new metric mean? Is it a keeper? Digital Media Wire had some interesting quotes:Ranking top sites...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-10
LiveStation: A Joost killer in Silverlight clothing: Microsoft is unveiling LiveStation which is an application that will enable live television on the desktop. The project uses Silverlight technology and has been touted as Microsoft's attempt at a "Joost killer". I think this is fairly old (the earliest reference I can find is 44 days ago on P2P...; Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Joost; Blog posts 2007-07-06
MyMovieMatch - a Rich Internet Application recommendation engine: Last week matchmine released MyMovieMatch, a very cool interactive application that serves as a recommendation engine for movies. The application was built with Flex 2 and Adobe AIR and provides a bit of a bridge between the web and the desktop. The primary initalization mode is all done via the...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, matchmine, Flex, AIR; Blog posts 2007-07-03
Why do tech journalists get rich internet applications so wrong?: A lot of people are talking about Rich Internet Applications. At first people weren't really sold on creating really great experiences in the browser. Then Ajax came along and gave us a taste of how much better the web could actually be. Once people figured out that Ajax wasn't quite...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, JavaFX, Adobe; Blog posts 2007-06-28
Pownce using AIR (and I've got invites): Kevin Rose unveiled a new project today, Pownce. Pownce looks like it's going to combine Twitter with the ability to send events, files, and links to your friends. Pownce allows you to send it to a specific person or share with everyone. Based on Leah's blog it looks like it's...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Apollo; Blog posts 2007-06-27
Using RIAs for Fun and Profit: Air New Zealand: I just saw a neat little RIA over on the Air New Zealand site called How far can I go?. It looks like it was built for travelers who have a specific budget and want to know how far their money will get them. The first pick the originating city...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-06-26
Foo Camping: I was invited to Foo Camp this past weekend for the first time and after going, I can definitely see why it's such a big deal to go and why it's become an uber geek event. If you've never heard of Foo Camp, there's a pretty good article over on...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-06-25
The 'isms' of the Desktop/Browser war and why the web community should engage the desktop more: Simon Morris puts an interesting spin on the evolving world of Rich Internet Applications by giving us all some 'isms' to subscribe to as we try to find the path of light in a world that is constantly changing and being influenced by many, many different parties that all have...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Do new verticals need a killer desktop application?: I heard an interesting statement today about the role of desktop applications in new mediums and taking technologies to the next level. Think about email and the move to more rich experiences. Pine was great and the first thing I used to check email. But it wasn't something that most...; Tags: WPF, Rich Internet Applications, Apollo; Blog posts 2007-06-19
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