Archive for the ‘Concept’ Category

Web Developer Spectrum

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

In the last few years, the technology industry has been particularly focused on Web developers, and the last couple of weeks have been a relatively good example of such attention. First, Adobe released its Adobe AIR and their Flex 3 products; Microsoft did a massive SilverLight push at its now famous [...]

Service Oriented Platform: 4 Modes

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Over the last few years, we have witnessed the emergence of a new type of software platform - the Service Oriented Platform (SOP). The SOP concept is to offer an application platform as a network service (inside or outside an enterprise firewall), providing a centralized runtime to execute and manage distributed or [...]

P2P for Web 2.0: Brainstorming

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

As mentioned in the "Web 0.x to Web 2.0" post, outside of IM (instant messaging), voice chat and voice-video chat, and some illegal P2P (peer to peer) file sharing software, most Internet applications are still based on a traditional "Client/Server" model that is analogous to the "Browser/WebServer" model. While today’s Web applications have [...]

To Flock or not to Flock

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

A few days ago a UK magazine posted a good article about Flock. As mentioned in the article, Flock is still in developer preview and therefore should be judged less by its bits quality and more by the idea it tries to convey. Flock’s vision of a more collaborative and event-driven Internet is [...]