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- 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
- "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
- 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
- Help me redesign the web
- MIT's Technology Review free registration required ran an interesting article this month titled "Help Me Redesign the Web" by Roger Black, an influential graphic designer. It paints a very design-oriented picture of both the web and Rich Internet Applications RIAs that I thought provided a nice foundation on some of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Is Tweetr the first mainstream Apollo application?
- Tweetr, the Twitter client from John Ballinger that is built on Apollo hit a unique and fun milestone today; it officially got the same status as Twitterific. For those that dont use Twitter, Ill back up. When you update Twitter, it shows whether you updated from the web or from...
- Tags: Apollo, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Metrics and the evolving web
- Scoble is the latest person to lament the fact that the way we measure traffic and popularity on the web is just plain broken. Partly its the way we measure them; by relying in installed toolbars and surveys of the population. Thats what Scoble takes the most issue with. The...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Scoble, Web, PodTech
- Blog posts 2007-05-13
- Expanding Web 2.0 to the masses with Rich Internet Applications
- There is a report today that details a survey by Pew and covers how Americans see themselves in the tech infrastructure. The finding is that while Web 2.0 gets a ton of buzz, Only 8% of people in America really do a range of Web 2.0 activities. Only 31% of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- They saw the Silverlight, and saw that it was good
- Robert Scoble is trying to build a reinvention myth around Microsofts introduction of Silverlight, its new smart client platform. Not so fast, Scoble! Its not the Web thats rebooting, its Microsoft. Silverlight is significant as the catalyst that finally allows Microsoft to recreate itself as a vendor for the Web...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- "View Source" and Rich Internet Application misconceptions
- Today at the Web 2.0 Expo, I sat in on a panel with Richard MacManus, Kelly Goto, Chris Messina and . They talked about the "hybrid designer" and touched on some points about the web and the richness that has really created the "hybrid" notion. In one bit, Chris said...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Why Do People Hate Building Desktop Applications?
- After reading Paul Grahams inflammatory post about how Microsoft is dead, Simeon Bateman and I got into a little back and forth over IM about the merits of what he was saying. I tend to agree with Don Dodge, about both the title of the piece and the "real meaning"...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- Rich Internet Applications and the software renaissance
- Om Malik is the latest to notice the increasing number of "hybrid" technologies that are bridging the desktop and the web. Mike Arrington of TechCrunch was the first to give a good rundown of the space and so I felt like it was a good time to reiterate why this...
- Tags: Desktops, Rich Internet Applications, desktop, Web, software
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- New Flash-based Google Talk web client
- This morning the Google Talk team rolled out a Flash-bashed Google Talk widget that can be added to the Google homepage or embedded on any blog info on the Google Talkabout blog. The widget is the direct result of Googles acquisition of Gtalkr last year, the company created by Wes...
- Tags: Blogging, Web, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Open web advocates: Get off your high horse
- First off, Brendan Eich is a smart guy. Hell, hes about a million times smarter than I am, so Im willing to believe that I might not understand some of the subtler nuances to his post, The Open Web and Its Adversaries. That said, I think a lot of the...
- Tags: Web, IM
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft: Bring me more developers
- As Mary Jo reported today, Microsoft is unveiling an initiative aimed at making their products accessible to new developers. The site, The Beginner Developer Learning Center, is targeted at hobbyists, young developers, and anyone else who has an interest in development but hasnt got a lot of experience. As part...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Adobe Engage: Alex Bard - yourminis
- One of my favorite companies, yourminis is here showing us how theyre using Apollo to deploy widgets on the desktop. He takes us on a quck tour of the homepage and how to find widgets. If youve seen the site, you will have done all of this. He highlights...
- Tags: Adobe, Apollo, Flash, Rich Internet Applications, yourminis
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Dekoh delivering a web desktop platform for applications
- San Jose based company Pramati announced Dekoh today and gave me a look around the application. Dekohs goal is to bring the web and the desktop together and to give developers the ability to create applications on top of that platform. Those applications can be shared and deployed anywhere in...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Dekoh
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- That noise in the blogosphere is Google choking on its own hype
- Google decided it wants to play in the big leagues and is now offering a premium version of its "office suite" instead of just subsidizing the applications with search revenue. Theyre trying to get a more complex customer that has higher needs than their free service provides. But in the...
- Tags: Google, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Is Adobe becoming "Googlesque"?
- Ive always loved Adobe, or at least Macromedia and then Adobe. For me, it was utterly frustrating to watch the company come out with all of these cool ideas and absolutely no one take notice. This was only more aggravating to me as I saw blog post after blog post...
- Tags: Adobe, Flash, Google, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- Bruce Eckel on Java and Rich Internet Applications
- Bruce Eckel, the author of Thinking in Java and a pretty influential figure in the Java community posted a long, eloquent assessment of the web, Java and Rich Internet Applications. To me its a signal that RIAs continue to gain ground and Bruce has some great thoughts on the subject....
- Tags: Programming languages, CSS, AJAX, Java, RIA, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Adobe releasing PDF spec to ISO embracing the Open Web
- Interesting news today that Adobe is releasing the PDF spec to ISO. Andre Charland has some good thoughts which parallel what I think of it. The more open we get with these web technologies the better. Now a lot of the spin on this will probably be Adobe vs....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-28
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