Archive for March, 2007
Evolution of Dekoh idea
Jay Fortner wrote this article Dekoh Challenges Apollo As Desktop/Web Platform on Read/Write web. One observation he made was “…makes it hard to describe what Dekoh is in a sentence”. He is probably right to some extent because Dekoh offers several different things, at a first glance it appears it is doing too many things. [...]
Dekoh Photos screencast
I made my first attempt at recording a video! The demo shows Dekoh photos application features. This is a AJAX application running on the desktop. Some highlights:
Tagging, commenting, sharing features come as part of the platform, it is not coded in the photos application. Dekoh portal API and widgets are used to get this functionality [...]
Sun Mashup event
I was at the Sun Mashup Event this afternoon. It was a semi-formal discussion/debate between Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun and Michael Arrington of Techcrunch. The topics included Web 2.0 and venture capital mainly.
There were some interesting thoughts and debate around Web 2.0 definition, is web 2.0 a new concept that did [...]
Bringing the best of Desktop and Web together
The main idea of Dekoh is to bring the best of features on Desktop and Web to end users and developers. Jay in his presentation had a nice slide that captures this.
Here is a brief description:
Universal Data: Applications can blend data on their file system with data on the web (website APIs) in their applications.
Control [...]
Dekoh press meet in Bangalore
Some exciting interaction at the press meet today. Technology journalists had a lot of questions about Dekoh — mostly to do with the seamless movement between the web and desktop that Dekoh promises — , and were eager to get their hands on the new product. The expectations are clearly rising. Check out the [...]
Architecture of a Desktop RIA platform
There are many pieces to the puzzle of building an integrated desktop and web application platform. Ted has interesting posting today on this and Ryan has also commented on it.
Here is my opinion on what the architecture of such a platform could be and approaches taken by Dekoh and Apollo (from Adobe).
1. Cross-OS base: Required [...]
