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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

Demo of Silverlight on Linux and running outside the browser coming in June

My parnter in crime here at ZDNet, Dana Gardner, has the scoop on news that the Mono Project will be releasing an alpha demonstration of Silverlight, Microsoft's browser Rich Internet Application technology, running on Linux. The demo, according to Miguel de Icaza, could actually have Silverlight running outside the browser...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Linux

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Confusion, fear and doubt around Rich Internet Applications

There is a post up over on Read/Write Web which aims to paint a picture of Rich Internet Applications and poses the question, RIA: What is it good for? Unfortunately I think they miss the mark a bit with both the definition of RIAs and the analysis behind the technologies....

Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash, Apollo, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-06-01

To browser or not? It doesn't really matter

Rich Internet Applications have gotten a lot of great attention recently. The technologies and acronyms are blending together in a seemingly endless soup of technobabble. Part of that comes with any new technology and in the hyper-attentive world of the web people are quick to make judgments and even quicker...

Tags: Apollo, Experience, Flash, Flex, Silverlight

Blog posts 2007-05-28

Changing the user expectation by freeing applications from the browser

Disclosure: Last week I announced that I'm working for Adobe. While I haven't officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at the bottom of the page, but I'll probably run this for a while just to make sure there isn't...

Tags: Silverlight, Flash, Apollo, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-05-21

My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie

Jeff Sandquist of Microsoft set up a lunch for a few of us with Scott Guthrie and Ray Ozzie here at Mix07. It was a great group of people including Richard MacManus his thoughts on the lunch are up here, Walt Ritscher, Lee Brimelow, Evan Williams, Linda Weinman, and...

Tags: Microsoft, Mix07, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-04-30

The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies

Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...

Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe, XBAP, WPF, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, On2, Microsoft, Flex, Flash

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Additional Resources

CRM 2009 - Part 2.1 - Can't Believe I Forgot These

I forgot to write in two of my forecast segments yesterday. I think for the purposes of blaming something else, I'll blame my car accident last August for the memory loss.  I have to say that because I don't think I can use the term I want to about what happened...

Tags: Customer, Tool, CRM, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Citrix Netscaler 9 - AppExpertTemplates simplify deployment

Citrix recently lauched NetScaler 9, an application virtualization and delivery tool. The primary enhancement was the addition of sophisticated templates making deployment of applications via NetScaler dramatically simpler. Citrix describes the enhancements in the following way: NetScaler 9 introduces AppExpert Templates that capture hundreds of deployment...

Tags: NetScaler, Citrix Systems Inc., NetScaler AppExpert Templates, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-05

News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone

Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Coming on Patch Tuesday: 8 bulletins, 6 critical

The final Microsoft Patch Tuesday for 2008 will be a big one: 8 bulletins covering serious code execution flaws in a wide range of ubiquitous software. According to the company's advance notice mechanism,  six of the eight bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The...

Tags: Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Bulletin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...

Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...

Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site

The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.Techmeme Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share information about...

Tags: Web, Facebook, Web Site, Curtain, Web Site Development, Social Networking, Web Technology, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

NYT takes new approach, taps blogs to keep readers informed

Have blogs become the new AP for news outlets? The New York Times has announced the launch of Times Extra, an online view of its front page that comes with links to content from other news outlets and blogs. For a long time, news outlets have been...

Tags: Blog, NYT, News Outlet, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-04

WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business

The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...

Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Information Agenda: A strategy shift from applications to information

Stuck between business challenges on the one hand, and information management systems on the other hand which simply limit your ability to respond. IBM's Tom Inman wants an easy way to spread your information across the board. Commentary--As the CIO of a flourishing business, you are happy to report...

Tags: Information Management, Business, Information, Information Agenda, IL&P, Competency Center, Strategy, Management, customer relations, IBM, application agenda, IT, Tom Inman IBM, Special to ZDNet, Tom Inman IBM Information Management division, Special to ZDNet

News items 2008-12-04

The emerging case for open business methods

The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...

Tags: Network, Industry, Business, Business Strategy, Business Method, Reasons Organization, Dave Bort, Internet, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Can the Internet drive a health care consensus?

The Internet, specifically a Web site called change.gov, is the tool with which the Obama Administration hopes to drive the health care debate, from the bottom up. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Care, Administration, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-04