Google Takes Over Internet via SPDY?
It seems Google is on the path to take over everything online or everything in bits and bytes, well, except in China..um…and what Apple aims at. The funny thing is that almost everyone who surfs online is literally working for Google and contributing to its “google” sized bank account, in the way of pay for [...]
Review 10 Predictions for 2009
It becomes a tradition that I’ll write a 10-predictions piece for every new year. This is only because I’ve been doing so well with those predictions that I just can’t help trying it again and again. Before getting into 2010 (pronounced twenty ten and that’s settled), let me review how good the 2009 predictions made [...]
Google Takes on Flash and Silverlight with Chrome Frame
In my 10 RIA Predictions for 2009 No. 3 I said “Google will release a RIA runtime to beat Flex, Silverlight, Firefox and everybody else for UI spaces.” I am right!
Google released the Google Chrome Frame yesterday (9/22/09).
It’s a plugin, as I predicted. So far it’s only for IE. “With Google Chrome Frame, developers [...]
Rounding Up A Week of Acquisitions
Google’s justification for acquiring reCAPTCHA makes a lot more sense than Adobe’s for acquiring Omniture. However, Adobe’s announcement of the release of Adobe Flash Access throws a new light on the acquisition and it now appears that perhaps Omniture does fit in.
Sarah Perez reported an example of what could go wrong with cloud services. That [...]
Adobe and Omniture?
Yesterday Both Adobe and Omiture announced that Adobe acquired Omiture. For $1.8 billion! Adobe will pay $21.50 a share in cash (cash!) for it, a 24% premium to that day’s price.
This is a puzzling deal. While Silverlight Is Still Racing Flash, as WSJ reported the same day, Adobe jumps into a very new territory where [...]
RIA Cowboy beautifies the Cloud - salesforce
Moxie had three-post series in 2007 that gave some details on how to put Map, Flex, Yahoo Pipe, Flickr together into Salesforce.com, Flex Mashup I, Flex Mashup II and Flex Mashup III. Now in 2009 it’s all about cloud. James War, aka RIA Cowboy, just had this post talking about integrating Flex into force.com(salesforce)’s cloud [...]
Another Step Towards Deep Thought
I have been reading about Wolfram|Alpha here and there every now and then but never gave it the attention it deserved until now. For the similarly uninitiated, what is Wolfram Alpha? Ask it yourself. Wolfram|Alpha is a self-aware computational knowledge engine, which is to say that it computes based on the knowledge it already has [...]
Rounding Up Week Of the 2009 Hype Cycle
The Gartner Hype Cycle 2009 report was released last week. Cloud computing and E-book readers share the global maxima, and social software suites and microblogging are apparently just past their crest. Ryan Stewart highlighted Adobe’s prominence.
Ryan Stewart is also awestruck by interface designer Theresa Neil and highly recommends some of her material on RIAs.
Elad Elrom [...]
Spinning Down the Web Squared
Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper called Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On as a warm up before the Web 2.0 Summit which is to take place in October. The paper is a must read for all web savvy, and all those who care about the directions in which the world [...]
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