Lately many parallel streams of development in Cloud Computing are making significant progress to bring about a new way of information processing impacting a large number of users, including enterprises and communities around the world. Gartner predicts that "Cloud Application Infrastructure Technology Needs Seven Years to Mature." Gartner said that technologically aggressive application development organizations [...]

Rich Apps are here. Page sites are gone. Internet is wearing a new look. Sites are looking more and more like applications…but if we cant share what we do, the richness won’t get us very far.

 
In a very interesting twist, the recent wave of popularity of the ‘Twitter’ is somewhat on the wane. Part of the reason is that, much though it claimed to be a ‘Spot Yourself’ application, it never gave any geographical cue. If you looked at ‘Twitter’ App site, it just looks like a series of tweets [...]

Today ‘Social Networks’ are a way of life. We see it in every possible web based service or application that we use. Sometimes we even wonder if all these ’sociability’ actually serve their purpose in our respective information environments. So is ‘Social Networking’ only a business model for advertising revenue? There is more [...]

Recent buzz about the gPhone being designed by the ADG (Ammunition Design Group) of San Fransisco may or may not have been confirmed by the honchos of the company, but what is almost certain is Google’s unmistakable ambition to enter the mobile web space in a big way…

The dispositions of the new generation of customers, empowered and connected through technologies and information, who some like to call ‘the Prosumers’, is yet to be a full blown ‘phenomenon’ but the signs of a new era in social consumption, production and co-creation are loud and clear. With the ubiquity of information access, and the [...]

If you are wondering what is the McDonald’s connection with web applications, let me clarify that this is not about the offerings. I intend to discuss the kinds of experiences a brand, either emerging or long established, promise to offer to the customer or the user. McDonald’s is more a case in [...]

Termed as one of the brightest ideas in search customization, Yahoo Pipes, was launched sometime back in late ‘07. Indeed the promise was arresting. A novel and exponentially powerful mechanism to customize, aggregate, process the information on the web and possibly create a channel of communication or media that has all the cumulative powers [...]

Planning to visit this conference in Bangalore. It sounds interesting and may be first of it’s kind in India.
WEB INNOVATION 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business [...]

As architects of the enterprise data management suites spend a lot of energy talking about concepts and frameworks such as SOA, EDA, MDA, and SCA. In times of increasing complexity and with a desire to get projects completed on time and within budget, sometimes the most important part of any architecture is forgotten - the [...]