How would it be if we create a social networking site for bloggers ? Blogcatalog has set out to do exactly the same.. It has a profile page for each of the bloggers and lets bloggers comment on other blog sites..
This is definitely a good evolutionary step for web 2.0. Surprising that it has not become popular yet.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Wikinomics, Future of Work and Enterprise 2.0
Wikinomics - How Mass Collaboration changes Everything , is a very good introduction to the potential of web based collaboration platforms.
Here is The Blurb :
"In the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superceded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics explains how to prosper in a world where new communications technologies are democratizing the creation of value. Anyone who wants to understand the major forces revolutionizing business today should consider Wikinomics their survival kit".
If Wikinomics is definitely the future of work, then the Enterprise 2.0 software architecture should reflect the underlying phenomena described in Wikinomics.
Here is The Blurb :
"In the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superceded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics explains how to prosper in a world where new communications technologies are democratizing the creation of value. Anyone who wants to understand the major forces revolutionizing business today should consider Wikinomics their survival kit".
If Wikinomics is definitely the future of work, then the Enterprise 2.0 software architecture should reflect the underlying phenomena described in Wikinomics.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Adobe Apollo Alpha is released! go get it!
Adobe labs has released the alpha version of Apollo along with some sample applications include RSS Reader, Map App etc.
I just downloaded and played with it.. While the application looks just like a desktop app, I feel that adobe should launch much more jazzy apps to catch the fancy of the web 2.0 developer community. Hope that lot more would be coming from apollo.
I just downloaded and played with it.. While the application looks just like a desktop app, I feel that adobe should launch much more jazzy apps to catch the fancy of the web 2.0 developer community. Hope that lot more would be coming from apollo.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Peer Production and Crowd Sourcing meets Citizen Journalism
Digg.com extended the Slashdot by allowing anyone to post content. Digg had become the poster child for collaborative news site and several verticals have been formulated based on this model.
Wired.com, is taking the digg model to the next level with Assignment Zero. Basically it is allowing the users to create categories which are interesting to them. It will also assign tasks to the collaborators (who were earlier not directed to do things like this).
This model is very interesting from collaboration software point of view. It is integrating the digg.com model for collaborative filtering with task / project management. This is also significant in that it merges the digital lifestyle based software features with digital workstyle. This model might have a good impact on the design of collaboration platforms in the near future.
The use of the newspaper terminology makes the underlying architecture and workflow clear to an average user. It is also important to note that Blogs were also influenced by the newspaper's information architecture of who, when, what and where.
Wired.com, is taking the digg model to the next level with Assignment Zero. Basically it is allowing the users to create categories which are interesting to them. It will also assign tasks to the collaborators (who were earlier not directed to do things like this).
This model is very interesting from collaboration software point of view. It is integrating the digg.com model for collaborative filtering with task / project management. This is also significant in that it merges the digital lifestyle based software features with digital workstyle. This model might have a good impact on the design of collaboration platforms in the near future.
The use of the newspaper terminology makes the underlying architecture and workflow clear to an average user. It is also important to note that Blogs were also influenced by the newspaper's information architecture of who, when, what and where.
Trillian Astra
Trillian Astra is a good example of next generation of Rich Internet Application. The Trillian Astra team has developed components for web-desktop integration without Apollo. These components can access desktop files, dock in the system tray etc.
Their Application looks jazzy ..
Their Application looks jazzy ..
Sunday, March 11, 2007
AllPeers Goes Open Source
AllPeers is a Mozilla Plug-in that allows the users to have IM, File Sharing functionalities within the browser itself. It is developed in XUL. However they are not releasing the server version open source. All the clients would be connecting to the AllPeers server for file sharing etc.
I showed the app to couple of my friends. They like the idea, but want a cross platform solution which works across browsers and also in mobile because file sharing would be happening between devices also.. So Single Platform would be a difficult proposition.
With several solution providers competing for this space and releasing products in a flurry, things are getting interesting..
I showed the app to couple of my friends. They like the idea, but want a cross platform solution which works across browsers and also in mobile because file sharing would be happening between devices also.. So Single Platform would be a difficult proposition.
With several solution providers competing for this space and releasing products in a flurry, things are getting interesting..
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
After Ajax
Web-Desktop Integration is seen as the next step after Ajax. There is already a flurry of activity happening in this space. Adobe's Apollo, Microsoft's WPF/E, Parakeet and many other approaches all are setting released one after another. Dojo Offline is also getting mature. So the ball has started to roll for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).
The Web Community might not be foolish this time to choose a proprietory solution like Apollo or WPF/E. Discussions have already started on the web and web community is already getting alerted to the situation.
Why Open is Good and How Open Could Be Good for Flash and Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web are pointers in this direction.
The most damning argument regarding microsoft and adobe comes from techcrunch. It says "Adobe is both a platform company and an application company. Conflicts are not avoidable".
I am just hoping that an firefox equivalent of RIA platform prevails, and startups have a field day.
The Web Community might not be foolish this time to choose a proprietory solution like Apollo or WPF/E. Discussions have already started on the web and web community is already getting alerted to the situation.
Why Open is Good and How Open Could Be Good for Flash and Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web are pointers in this direction.
The most damning argument regarding microsoft and adobe comes from techcrunch. It says "Adobe is both a platform company and an application company. Conflicts are not avoidable".
I am just hoping that an firefox equivalent of RIA platform prevails, and startups have a field day.
Izimi - A Competitor to Dekoh
Izimi is the next logical step in self-publishing; izimi empowers you to publish what you want, when you want, and keeps you in control. The old social networking services dictated what you could publish, but hey, that was fine when we had no alternatives.
Izimi is a direct competitor to Dekoh. It seems that there are quite a lot of offerings in this space. Firefox Developer Blake Ross's Paraket is a high profile offering in the same space.
The first product that integrated the webbrowser with an embedded server was Ray Ozzie's Groove. However, Groove did not have an aggregating central server as part of it. Groove was positioned as Peer-to-Peer version of Lotus Notes.
Brad Neuberg, a leading contributor of Dojo (offline version), had earlier released a JXTA P2P based Mozilla Plugin called Paper Airplane.
Paper Airplane is a Mozilla plugin that empowers people to easily create collaborative P2P web sites, without setting up servers or spending money. It does this by integrating a web server into the browser itself, including tools to create collaborative online communities that are stored on the machine. Paper Airplane Groups are stored locally on a user's machine. A peer-to-peer network is created between all of the Paper Airplane nodes that are running in order to resolve group names and reach normally unreachable peers due to firewalls or NAT devices.
Hive, my earlier effort, also integrated Jetty, JXTA and Browsers together to form a Peer-to-Peer tool similar to Groove. These products, during 2000 to 2002 were marketed as P2P products.
Social Networking and Web 2.0 memes took over the P2P Concept. People 2 People has become Social Networking. However Web 2.0 concepts such as Tagging, Ajax, User Created Content etc have definitely added some masala to the idea. However, the idea of content aggregator as a successful business model for the companies developing these products has gained currency. Also, Advertising as a revenue model has also gained currency between then and now..
Izimi is a direct competitor to Dekoh. It seems that there are quite a lot of offerings in this space. Firefox Developer Blake Ross's Paraket is a high profile offering in the same space.
The first product that integrated the webbrowser with an embedded server was Ray Ozzie's Groove. However, Groove did not have an aggregating central server as part of it. Groove was positioned as Peer-to-Peer version of Lotus Notes.
Brad Neuberg, a leading contributor of Dojo (offline version), had earlier released a JXTA P2P based Mozilla Plugin called Paper Airplane.
Paper Airplane is a Mozilla plugin that empowers people to easily create collaborative P2P web sites, without setting up servers or spending money. It does this by integrating a web server into the browser itself, including tools to create collaborative online communities that are stored on the machine. Paper Airplane Groups are stored locally on a user's machine. A peer-to-peer network is created between all of the Paper Airplane nodes that are running in order to resolve group names and reach normally unreachable peers due to firewalls or NAT devices.
Hive, my earlier effort, also integrated Jetty, JXTA and Browsers together to form a Peer-to-Peer tool similar to Groove. These products, during 2000 to 2002 were marketed as P2P products.
Social Networking and Web 2.0 memes took over the P2P Concept. People 2 People has become Social Networking. However Web 2.0 concepts such as Tagging, Ajax, User Created Content etc have definitely added some masala to the idea. However, the idea of content aggregator as a successful business model for the companies developing these products has gained currency. Also, Advertising as a revenue model has also gained currency between then and now..
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Pramati to launch dekoh - Web 2.0 desktop
Pramati, One of the EJB Server vendors based, in Hyderabad, is launching a Web 2.0 Desktop product called Dekoh.
The Key Feature of Dekoh is going to be Desktop based Application Integration. From Dekoh prespective, Application Integration is just Mashup. It would be a Portal and embedded webserver Combo. In short, it would be like Hive, which I had developed while I was in Alberg, Hyderabad.
The Key Feature of Dekoh is going to be Desktop based Application Integration. From Dekoh prespective, Application Integration is just Mashup. It would be a Portal and embedded webserver Combo. In short, it would be like Hive, which I had developed while I was in Alberg, Hyderabad.
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