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So long and thanks for all the fish

This will be my last post on ZDNet. Blogging here has been one of the most fun things I've been able to do in my career. In fact, basically everything started here. Almost all of the various connections I've made over the past couple of years are as a result...

Tags: Blog, Rich Internet Application, Jeffrey Hammond, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2009-03-30

RIA technologies and the downturn

The news is a pretty depressing place right now but there was a small article in the Economist about how the Fashion industry is responding to the downturn that caught my eye. Towards the end of the article the Economist mentioned how designers are looking for ways to leverage digital...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2009-03-05

The iPhone conference cometh: 360|iDev March 2-4

One of my favorite RIA events is 360|Flex. The organizers, Tom Ortega, and John Wilker, do a great job of getting the community excited and putting on an event with great technical content and great networking opportunities. The 360|Flex events end up feeling like a week hanging out with friends...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2009-02-11

The mulitouch future of RIAs

I've been really enjoying Richard Monson-Haefel's blog on multi touch lately. Now that RIA technologies are able to do so much, it's become apparent that the mouse and keyboard are simply too limiting as input devices. The maddening number of iPhone clones that do "gestures" but not true multi touch...

Tags: Multi-touch, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2009-02-09

No more free Sprout Builder

Marshall has the news up that Sprout Builder will no longer be offering free accounts. Sprout Builder is one of my favorite applications on the net and I always thought what they were doing for the Flash Platform was good. So while I share Marshall's sadness at the loss of...

Tags: Ecosystem, Tool, Marshall, Sprout Builder, Productivity, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Brightcove adds some new leadership talent

This morning Brightcove made an announcement that they're adding a few new faces. A couple of those faces will be familiar to anyone who has been involved in the RIA world for the past couple of years. Jeff Whatcott, who was vice president of marketing at Adobe, is joining as...

Tags: Talent, Leadership, Brightcove, Blogging, Media Players, Corporate Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2009-01-12

Looking ahead to 2009

2008 was a big year for rich Internet applications. We saw companies like Curl and Appcelerator make big pushes into the RIA mindshare. We saw a significant release of Silverlight - a release that most people excited about Silverlight were very happy with. We saw Adobe push more with Flex...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Native Client: Google's (other) plugin play

Yesterday Google announced an early developer release of Native Client, a plugin for web browsers that lets you essentially run native code like C or C++ in the browser. In theory it could be extended to other languages. The main goal is to provide native-like performance and to let C/C++...

Tags: Google Inc., Alchemy, C, Web Browser, Plug-in, C/C++, Web Browsers, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-12-09

The widget conundrum

There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...

Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Google's video chat plugin - a big deal for RIA developers

A couple of days ago Google released a video chat plugin for Gmail. With Google, it's always a little hard to figure out where all of the pieces fit - that's why there are entire blogs dedicated to the company - but in this case, I think this seemingly innocuous...

Tags: Video Chat, Developer, Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Video, Plug-in, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Aviary launches with brand new domain, pricing model

This is a bit old, but I haven't had time to dig in and play with the public version of Aviary until recently. After a long beta period they've officially taken the wraps off of Phoenix, their bitmap editing tool and consolidated everything under the aviary.com domain. The launch not...

Tags: Desktop, Domain, Pricing Strategy, Tool, Aviary, Productivity, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Architecting your Rich Internet Applications

Josh Holmes has posted a set of slides and detailed explanation for a talk he and James Ward did about architecting rich Internet applications. The post and the slides are well worth a read. One of the things that has been both fun and terrifying to watch as Flex evolved...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Slide, Josh Holmes, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-11-04

SlideRocket opens up to the public

One of the most impressive Flex-based applications out there, SlideRocket, is now open for anyone to go and sign up. Screenshot Gallery They've been doing a private beta for the past few months but they launch today with some new features and a business model. In talking...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe AIR, Marketplace, SlideRocket, Investment, Finance, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-28

New York Times rolling out HD video content with Brightcove

Andy Plesser has the scoop that the New York Times has launched a new HD video portal using Brightcove's service, something I've covered recently. With news that the New York Times is in trouble, this couldn't come at a better time. Online video continues to explode in popularity and it's...

Tags: New York Times Co., Brightcove, Video, Andy Plesser, Corporate Communications, Portals, Branding, Marketing, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-24

What the iPhone says about user experience

It turns out the iPhone is pretty damn popular. Those of us following the digeratiy scene could probably have told the analysts that but even these numbers are impressive. 6.892 million iPhones sold in the quarter for a total of 12.992 million and more importantly, it gave Apple a revenue...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Tools & Techniques, Web 2.0, Management, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-22

360 degree virtual reality training RIA

SitePoint and TechCrunch both have some information up about something that EffectiveUI is building for Intelligence Gaming. It's a video-based virtual reality training simulation for the army. It's one of the coolest RIAs that I've seen. The application uses a combination of high quality video and hardware to immerse people...

Tags: 360-degree, Rich Internet Application, Video, Training, Hardware, Corporate Communications, Virtual Reality, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Brightcove overhauls UI with Brightcove 3

Today Brightcove is rolling out a new application as part of their web platform for content creators (Update: here's a post by one of the Flex developers who worked on it). The new user interface and features are some of the coolest things that I've seen in the ever popular...

Tags: Brightcove, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement

(Update: It also looks like you can grab the final bits as of 12:01 this morning: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0) After listening to the Q&A from the press conference today recording here, digging into some of the details, and reading some of the commentary on various blogs, there are a...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Eclipse, Numbers Game, Linux, Java Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow

Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers: ...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 2, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Linux, Open Source, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Is Google working on the synchronization problem?

ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...

Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-10