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Java-driven Rich Internet Applications
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is catching on very well. It is easy to appreciate the need to have an integrated desktop - web experience for all the good things such applications can bring.
However, in building RIA, two things from the web development experience become important:
Being cross-platform and not to exclude anyone (as the web does [...]
Web 2.0 Expo, interactions were excellent
Today we ended the Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco with a great feeling.
For Dekoh this show was an important milestone, the unveiling of the product to the public for the first time. We reached a thousand downloads on just the first day.
The feedback and interactions with a wide cross-section of people was very useful [...]
Dekoh announces public alpha at Web 2.0 Expo
Dekoh is starting public alpha program to get feedback from larger community.
We are very excited to show to people at the Web2.0 Expo (San Francisco) starting tomorrow. If you are at the show, drop by at booth number 330 for a demo or discussion with us.
Here is a quick look at the applications we will [...]
Adobe’s love and hate for browsers
Adobe has 2 of the most popular browser plugins (see Common plugins for Firefox). Flash is by far the best way to deliver multi-media content to web users because of 2 reasons.
1. Same user experience on all platforms and browsers
2. Ability to stream
Flash Player Penetration is 98% of Internet viewers. This is great for any [...]
Wordpress trick - recent post for email signature
Today, I thought I should try and make my Outlook email signature show my latest blog post every time I send an email. After some digging and trying, finally I have got something that is workable.
Feedburner has a feature called Headline Animator that generates an animated gif of recent 5 posts for your blog feed. [...]
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 [...]
Flash application on Dekoh
Yesterday, a few people asked me about running flash applications on Dekoh. We are working on a music organizing/streaming application which is a flash application. We only have a preview of screen shots now. In the meantime I created a small video of the dashboard that also uses XML-HTTP from Flash.
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Call for budding entrepreneurs in India
The culture of entrepreneurship and startups has started blooming in India again. This is very good considering the brain power the country carries. I came across “dreamzhunt” a new ideas contest for technoprenuers in India. The submissions are already open. Check out if this is for you.
