Ritesh on Jul 5th, 2007Getting Familiar with Google Gears
Google Gears was released recently as an effort to promote offline web. I have written time and again about this genre of web applications and have spoken about the advancements like the Dojo Offline Toolkit, AIR and the new Silverlight that try to blemish the line between web and desktop applications.
Google Gears is designed [...]
Ritesh on Jul 2nd, 2007Social Design and the Opaque value problem
I read this post by Joshua Porter about the value of social networks and the opaque value problem and it got me thinking. Why and for what do we actually use web based services.
The fact that we don’t understand what value others get from social web apps is part of the paradigm of social software. [...]
Ritesh on Jun 21st, 2007Enterprise 2.0 – definitive guide
The Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston has inspired me to write about it. So whats this enterprise 2.0 all about ? Its about mainstream enterprise applications going the 2.0 way. Everyday applications like ERP’s, CRM’s etc going soft and going web. Office automation taking a whole new meaning and likes of Chat, Social Networking , [...]
Ritesh on Apr 28th, 2007Evolution of Social Networks – A mind map
I had made a mindmap of how social networks will come of age and continue to play an important part in the future of web computing. This mind map was made for my talk at Barcamp Bangalore 3, you can read more about the talk here.
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 This mind map was created [...]
Ritesh on Apr 17th, 2007Inorganic content on the web – what am I trying to say here ?
Mashups have taken the world by storm and almost every site allows you to mix and match content from other services. Not only that, users expect to expose content that they create to be used else where. No one signs up for a photo hosting service if there is no way to share ( aka [...]
