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 [...]
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 [...]
Desktop web applications and browser debate
In the last week there has been a lot of debate about Desktop RIA applications. Starting with Alex’s article on Read/Write web Adobe Apollo - On A Collision Course With Web Browsers and then a discussion Which is better, an offline Web App or an online Desktop App?. There were other articles including Zimbra offline [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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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Desktop RIA - Does it need another browser?
Creating desktop apps using web standards is cool. It opens whole world of opportunities of integrating your computer seamlessly into the web. We have seen the cool apps of mashing google map with google calandar…with desktop RIA you can do Outlook mashup with google map or Excel mashup with e*trade. It is thrilling!
The key question [...]
Tagging on the Web versus Tagging on the Desktop
Tagging is so powerful a tool that it cannot continue to just remain on certain web sites we visit. Most of us know that tagging can be very helpful in finding related information or content (such as all photos of a place). Tagging also gives different perspectives of the content/information pile, such as what is [...]
