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.

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 [...]