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 [...]
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 [...]
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 HTML 5 Discussion Week
Adobe MAX 2009 has opened for registration. Early bird discounts until Aug 31st. Follow @adobemax for all updates.
Adobe and Microsoft have been collaborating on a range of security goals for nearly two years! And they have no plans to stop yet.
David Tucker follows his previous post with more observations, this time about HTML 5. As [...]
Rounding Up An Eventful Week
Adobe Flex & Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR has now been installed over 200 million times. Adrian Ludwig of the Adobe AIR team recaps the various territories it has been adopted into: social apps (mostly Twitter apps, I think), enterprise apps (Salesforce, Oracle), government apps (the Polish Finance Ministry), and what I call novelty apps (like the [...]
Why not a Flash App Store
There are lot of app stores germinating lately, all following the foot steps of Apple App Store. There are:
Android Market - All the apps feeding the Google Android phone, well, two of them so far G1 and G2 (should have gone to Google I/O!)
Windows Market Place for Mobile - A long plain name doesn’t change [...]
The Need For AIR Apps That Can Do Nothing
A common defect in most AIR applications that I’ve come across is that they continue to consume CPU cycles even when they are idle. Not just when they are in the background, but even after they are expected to have reached a steady state.
The need for well-performing AIR applications can’t be over-emphasized. Websites using Flex [...]
Rounding Up Silverlight’s Emmy-Winning Week
Moonlight 2.0 Preview has been released. Moonlight is the open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux built by Novell with support from the Microsoft Silverlight team.
Adobe AIR Linux has a new problem: the much-talked about Debian’s switching to EGLIBC. The AIR Linux team is worried about subtle API or binary incompatibilities that may arise between [...]
Rounding Up Last Week From Animation to User Interfaces
WaiLam started a cool series on character animation using the Flash CS4 bone tool.
Lee Brimelow reminds us about Census. I came across this James Ward’s benchmarking tool only a few months ago. It has been around for a couple of years now, and the updates, if at all, are being published so silently that I [...]
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