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 [...]

The rich web apps are bringing in more & more interesting patterns in the interaction model. Visual interaction is really emerging as a powerful way people respond, manipulate and intermediate… Think about it…it is like a non-verbal communication, more visceral, more emotional and definitely more intuitive.

 The Symbaloo web application. It aims to create a visual [...]

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 [...]

Today’s demanding business environments are asking for more….more benefits to the customers, more intelligence from mining knowledge repositories, more choices appearing in the custom search result. And the so-called ‘expert systems’ are trying to do just that. Decoding complex user intentions into readable machine language and serving up more and more relevant information. Programs are [...]

I recently came across this quote: “Dial tone is a fabulous metaphor for one of the key principles of Web 2.0, which I’ve called “the architecture of participation,” but which might also simply be described as the design of systems that leverage customer self-service…” - Chris Shiflett
It means something very simple yet very fundamental about [...]