web 2.0
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dekoh a new platform for RIA on the desktop announced today
Press Release | San Jose, CA. | February 21, 2007.
Pramati announces Dekoh, a new desktop platform for applications that can deliver integrated experience of web and desktop
Out-of-the-box the platform provides web 2.0 features like tagging, sharing and commenting features. Soon to follow the release will be Dekoh personal media applications.
Pramati Technologies today announces its plan [...]
Designing for Social Sharing
Excellent presentation on “Designing for Social Sharing” by Rashmi Sinha
We have been working on a social sharing platform that brings the desktop and web closer, there by making it easy for users to share ‘Objects’ off their desktop. Our experience mirrors what is outlined in this presentation.
1. Make the platform valuable to the user on [...]
