Ritesh on Mar 15th, 2007Intel 2.0 Technology Development Kit
Intel Web 2.0 Technology Development Kit
There is an elemental difference between web applications and desktop applications, web applications are unaware of their environment. Their knowledge is confined to the boundaries of a browser. Intel intends to change this with their new TDK. There are some dreamy methods like getPercentRemaining() which will give you the [...]
Ritesh on Mar 15th, 2007Possibilities of Apollo
I have been bragging about the new Apollo platform and how web development will be affected because of these platforms. Well Apollo is a platform like the JVM which enables web developers to build applications for the desktop using web based languages like html, action scripts etc. Flex of course being a very essential part [...]
Ritesh on Mar 14th, 2007OpenId - what and why
I have been hearing a lot of questions regarding the design, use and intent of OpenId and thought, I must write about it. In the past two years or so, there have been about 100+ services that I have signed up for, to see what they have to offer and maintaining those accounts info’s are [...]
Ritesh on Mar 6th, 2007My.BarrackObama - social network for Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign
Ok, here’s one for the history books - Presidential hopeful Barrack Obama, has just launched a social networking site for his campaign 08. Its pretty strange why would somebody go through the trouble of making a social network for election purposes, but it makes sense considering the impact social networks can have on people. The [...]
Ritesh on Mar 6th, 2007FormatPixel - online presentations
Formatpixel is another wonderful application to join the ranks of online presentations. This space is really really hot right now with the likes of Zoho, thumbstacks , preezo etc trying to develop embeddable presentations. Even India has its own player in slideshare that works as a slide show tool to embed in myspace.
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