Flex goes opensource - as expected
I wrote about the war started between Microsoft and Adobe on RIA platform and tools. At other side of battle ground with Microsoft, the ultimate punch is always, you guess it right, opensource. Now Adobe open up Flex. We are all expecting this actually.
Using the MPL for open sourcing Flex will allow full and free […]
AJAX on Rails - Rails IDE getting fancy
If you are Ruby on Rails developers (if not, try be one), you might be using RadRails IDE for your rails application development (if not, try it). Just you know, RadRails is Eclipes based IDE, as many others. Now, RadRails become classic. The AJAX IDE opensource tool Aptana integrated the RadRails. The Rails part is in […]
four things that matter the most for the next web
If you haven’t felt it, now you know the web is changing. Desktop is hot, offline is hot, media is hot, visualization is hot, virturalization is hot, and so on. But fundamentally, behind all the happenings, four things really set the baseline of the future web:
APIs
Digg just released its API. And who else doesn’t have API? […]
finetune goes Apollo
As expected, Adobe Apollo sees quick adapters. Finetune, a music playlist sharing social network startup, goes to desktop with Apollo desktop player. As you know, Adobe themselves did the similar thing lately too with the Adobe Media Player, a Apollo application too. It’s very obvious that Apollo provides the better way for online business goes […]
cheapest international travel from Google - very funny
It’s very funny so that I have put it here. Do this:
Go to http://maps.google.com
Click the “Get Directions†tab.
In the from box, type “Bostonâ€.
In the to box, type “Londonâ€.
Click the “Get Directions†button.
In the directions, pay close attention to #5.
And here is what I got:
location matters
Back to the Earth, I’m joining the biggest GIS (geographic information system) company, because location matters, more and more.
Thanks to Google map and yahoo map, location based service (LBS) is becoming part of our life. Thanks to GPS technologies and widespread GPS devices, location matters more and more in our daily life. Location information is very visual. Thanks to RIA […]
Microsoft attacks Adobe with Silverlight - war starts
Forget AJAX vs Flex. Now it’s Microsoft vs Adobe via RIA, the Rich Internet Application technologies. I wrote about Visual Rules earlier and said there would be visualized-web war over RIA. Now I give you the War. Microsoft punches Adobe with Silverlight. Here is what Microsoft says about it:
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for […]
social is old - visualization rules
Any innovation eventually will be commodizationized. It’s happening to social network. Social network is the gem of the whole Web 2.0 thing, but it’s old. You can’t find anybody is not doing it, regardless it’s a 2.0 or 1.0 business. Besides, how many social networks you can check in and be actively in every day anyway. […]
Adobe Apollo Sample Application Video
Here is the sample application of Adobe Apollo. When we or you are doing Flex or Flash, one frustration is that you can put Flash within HTML but not HTML page within Flash. I think one big factor about Apollo that totally changes the web game is that you can seamlessly put HTML page inside Apollo application. […]
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