Archive for April, 2007

Adobe to Open Source Flex?

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Adobe sent out a press release this morning titled "Adobe to Open Source Flex ". Is that so? Dana Blankenhorn from ZDNet says this is A sign of desperation from Adobe ...Is that so? After reading the press release a few times, the title "to Open Source Flex" seems to ...

Internet Messaging Bus – Web 2.0 Communication Layer

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

In my previous post, “Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value “, I described a “Web 2.0 Technology Stack ” that contains three building blocks: Application Client Container, Internet Messaging Bus and Enterprise Mashup Server. In this post, I’ll explain more in detail of what an ...

Dojo Footprint and Ajax Performance Recommendation

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Introduction Ajax is flying high and Ajax toolkits are certainly of big help. However, I do hear from people in the community complain about the size of various Ajax toolkits. A lot of Ajax toolkits require hundreds of kilobytes of download, sometime even over megabytes. Dylan Schiemann from Dojo ...

“Web 2.0 Over and Out” - What Are You Smoking?

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

I am not as familiar with west coast VCs and have not run into Peter Rip, a general partner at Crosslink Capital. In general, looking at his blog EarlyStageVC, Peter is quite well informed and intelligent – which is why I was highly surprised to see a post from him ...