uncluttered Amazon the uncluttr way - good AJAX
A RIA application can fall short, most of time, on cluttered and over designed UI. All the RIA development tools can help very easily creating flashing UI but that’s not creativity. It’s abusing the tools. Simplicity is the king.
Here is a good example, in AJAX actually, uncluttr.com. It’s a services to access Amazon products via a […]
Microsoft readies Silverlight release candidate
Microsoft is set to release a string of web tools this week, including Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate and a second beta of Visual Studio 2008.
Silverlight 1.0 is scheduled for final release in the autumn, and Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 are set for release by the end of the year.
Silverlight […]
Hot Startup goes offline with Adobe AIR (Apollo)
This very highly hyped web startup, Pawnce, is doing something right. It has offline desktop feature too and they are using Adobe AIR (known as Apollo), for both Mac and Windows, of cause.
Pownce is a way to send stuff to your friends. What kind of stuff? You can send just about anything: music, photos, […]
How Google Earth Really Works
Google Earth is probably one of the great data visualization tools around. Regardless we are with Flex, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight or Sun JavaFX, or even the purist AJAX camp, we all can learn something from it.
One of the co-founders of Keyhole who helped build the virtual globe which later became Google Earth is Avi […]
Photos flow smoothly with Flash
Unless you are living in a cave and never go out, you have some photo hosted somewhere online. You must used some sort of of photo slide effect function somewhere online. Photo slider does what it does. But is it kinda boring? Well, not with PhotoFlow Flash component.
Have you ever seen Mac’s widget? Those […]
11 Trends (2007) Impact Enterprise IT
Half way though year 2007, I’d like to take a look at what the trends in the software technology area are having impacts on enterprise IT solutions.
I know there are still on-going discussions/debates regarding if IT is relevant to business. However, business needs IT, period. Leaving the “relevant or not” part to gurus, let me […]
Revealed - Oracle Larry Ellison owns NetSuite, a SaaS company
NetSuite is a SaaS company that provides businesses a suite of online business applications such as ERP, CRM, etc, those well known three-letter so called enterprise applications. This type business, with Salesforce.com as the flagship, supposedly directly compete with those traditional business application vendors such as SAP and Oracle.
Surprise, the recent IPO filing from NetSutie […]
Read what you like to read - thoof way
Do you really need another news aggregator? Well, if you can find one really helps your reading. Try thoof.
I’ve talked about the feature of attention is the future of web. Thoof is such personalized news reading tool.
To use it, you need sign up to get an account, which is free. The sign up process is surprisely […]
Simplicity and get things done
Came across this interesting site/tool, WebCockpit 1.0, and it’s very interesting and could be potentially useful.
There are lots of productivity related topic lately, especially when David Allen’s Get Things Done book and practice getting very popular. Now the Simpleology WebCockpit 1.0 is so called the first “Web 2.0″ application designed to allow its users to apply the simpleology […]
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