Web for seniors now live
Web does not exclude anyone. While most web 2.0 sites/services are targeting the young, BigscreenLive brings a special service for senior citizens.
UI challenge of creating an interface for seniors is big. We had a great time working with BigScreenLive team in developing it. For developers on the project, putting themselves in the user’s shoe was [...]
Netgear agreement with Dekoh
Pramati Technologies recently signed an OEM Agreement with NETGEAR, Inc. Under this agreement Dekoh Media Sharing Platform will be shipped with ReadyNAS product targeted at home consumers market. Home users who are experiencing explosive growth in their digital photo collection can buy ReadyNAS ($399 on Amazon now for 500GB) and they will get easy-to-use ReadNAS [...]
My interview at blog.Lifebeyondcode.com
Rajesh Setty has published my interview with him Behind the scenes - Dekoh; Interview with Vijay Pullur. I have talked about several topics like our history, why Dekoh?, how is it different from Adobe Apollo and Google gears, enterprise and SaaS ISV use cases for Dekoh etc. Thanks Rajesh for interviewing me and publishing [...]
No need to go beyond the browser
Rich Internet Applications bring a new dimension of richness to web applications. While there are some who are skeptical about RIA value for end users there are others who believe that it is the Future Direction of Applications.
While most people agree that browser is a universal client and in a comparison of Ajax vs RIA [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Roads to RIA
RIA applications can be ‘Rich’ in many ways. In my previous post Rich Internet Application (RIA) should be cross-platform, I had touched upon one common aspect of RIA (the user experience), while talking about the definition of RIA.
RIA applications can be “Rich” in:
Experience
Functionality, and
Access
Experience. Adding ‘Rich Interface’ to web hosted apps was the origin of [...]
