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JavaFx and Rich Internet Application

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Quite a few people are asking me what I think of Sun's JavaFX annoucement . It is funny and we saw this coming - Who wouldn't anticipate Sun to make some big annoucement at JavaOne ? People were predicting the annoucement is going to be "open sourcing Java" - Oh, ...

“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 ...

Mobile Ajax for Workers on the Edge

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

This is an interesting article by Rich Seeley on 2/22/06: URL: http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1244843,00.html The number of mobile workers globally will soon be more than double the total U.S. population, according to predictions by another analyst firm, IDC Corp. IDC has predicted that in two years there will be 878 million mobile workers ...

Web 2.0 Re-examined: Part 6 - Summary and References

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Web 2.0 Re-examined: The Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value Summary Web 2.0 is the next evolution of the web that has a new usage paradigm as well as a new technology paradigm. The former is characterized by “architecture of participation” and the latter is characterized by “architecture of partition”. Web 2.0 is ...

Web 2.0 Re-examined: Part 5 - the Business Value

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value The Business Value of Web 2.0 for Enterprises A Better Way for Enterprise IT Corporate IT has always been centered on application development and maintenance. Each evolution of computing, from mainframe to client/server to web 1.0, brings dramatically improved efficiency, significantly ...

Web 2.0 Re-examined: Part 4 - Web 2.0 Technology Stack

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value The Rise of a Web 2.0 Technology Stack The Fundamental Flaws of Web 1.0 Web 1.0 was designed for sharing and browsing hyper-linked documents. Its technology stack serves this purpose well. However, it was never meant for applications and has following ...

Web 2.0 Re-examined: Part 2 - What is Web 2.0?

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value What Is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is the next evolution of the web that has a new usage paradigm as well as a new technology paradigm. The former is characterized by “architecture of participation” and the latter is characterized by “architecture ...

The Converging Developer Community - AJAX to Overtake Flash

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

At AjaxWorld Conference and OpenAjax Alliance back to back meetings in Santa Clara, CA this week, it has been hard not to think about the developer community and how Web 2.0 is impacting it today. Web development can be roughly divided into two camps: Web site development; Web application development; "Web site development" is ...

What Does Web 2.0 Mean to Enterprises?

Friday, August 11th, 2006

In my previous post, "Every Organization Needs a Web 2.0 Story" , I outlined some of the business reasons why Web 2.0 is important for organizations today. I also promised to further explain what exactly Web 2.0 can do for enterprises in future posts. This morning I had the pleasure of reading ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft and Corporations

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Wah, Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft to focus on giving away his money...Though the transition will take two years to happen, this signals the ending of an era. What would microsoft be without Gates? MSFT is officially becoming a different kind of company. Over the last 30 years, Microsoft's capability ...

What does web 2.0 mean to enterprise?

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Tim Oreilly wrote one of the first articles trying to define "web 2.0" (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html). This article is influential in helping establishing the concept of web 2.0, but it is very consumer focused and does not get into what web 2.0 is for business. Dion Hinchcliffe maintains a fairly good blog about ...

Enterprise Rich Internet Application:Ajax, Java, Flash,.NET and Market Landscape (1)

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

This is the first post of Enterprise Rich Internet Application Series. Welcome to a New Paradigm The Web began as an environment for content sharing and small-scale data transfer via e-mail, newsgroups, and so forth. These initial uses quickly led to more sophisticated applications, particularly in the ...

SOA Reflects One of the Biggest Evolution of IT So far and IT Doesn’t Matter

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

Service Oriented Architecture is clearly a buzz word. However, what fascinated me is what SOA reveals in terms of the evolution of the Information Technology industry, Starting from the very beginning up to the last few years, the IT industry has been totally “vertically” focused from an architecture point ...