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online collaboration heating up

fritz — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:38:20 +0000

Online collaboration space is all heating up with now the big players in this space being Zoho, Google with its hosted apps for your domain and now Microsoft with its latest announcements (this) of Office going Live. Well the others are not far behind even companies like AT&T (see this) and Cisco (see this) are trying to get into this space and not to forget even Intel is making a huge push into consumer internet with its investment arm Intel Capital providing funding to many consumer internet companies.

But out of all this players there is one player which is doing this with killer technology by its side and that is Adobe yes the new owners of the Flash platform now with all the pieces falling in place it looks like Macromedia was a killer deal for Adobe to inject new DNA into itself to become part of the innovation wave that is hitting the web now and Flash is paying a key part of it. With (this) announcement they have made it clear that they are taking part in the race and they do have the technology and the resources to win the race but will they be able to do it is the multi billion dollar question.

But The runner that will win in this might not be the one who owns the technology but the one that builds on top of it see this the company called communigate systems have built a flash client for collaborative groupware and the interface in the screenshots look killer and since Google is in the acquisition spree and so are many others this might be the perfect target for anyone who is looking at a very innovative way to get into this race with one acquisition and their management team looks good with loads of experience behind them so they will fit well in the bigger picture.

Out of all the big guns the one that I am very interested in is Adobe with the glimpses of what they have shown of what they are cooking in their labs it looks like a good place for lots of fun work going on now. For a very long time I have not seen anything fun reported or leaked from sources from Google labs.

The new adobe service share looks pretty impressive but the best review has been for the media player as that would be a perfect replacement for information devices on the go.
This is the holy grail of consumer and biz tech now finding the perfect online collaboration suite so that people people can work in a decentralized environment from multiple locations in the web 2.0 world. only time will tell who will become the winner but till the time comes niche players who are solving small problems in a innovative way of the bigger collaborative pie are good targets for acquisition. So If you are working on any nifty little project in the collaboration space or you come across something nice leave a comment.

XML Internet OS is this the future?

fritz — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:17:29 +0000

Came across (this) very interesting article on DDJ.

What is a XML Internet OS?
It is an operating system that uses XML as core component of its architecture whether it is for UI , or System level messaging or application logic containers basically it uses XML for everything and it is internet based because it can be used over the internet

It is just another one of those the web based operating system which everyone is talking about
but what caught my attention was the ability of it to be used in SAAS architecture this would be very very useful for biz environments for the end user a web OS with just the normal application stuff like email, messenger,rss reader, calendar etc is more then enough but for a biz environment you need more like integration with your CRM, ERP etc etc and this is where such an XML based Internet OS can be killer as it would be easy to integrate with your existing infrastructure with a little bit of hassle.

There is a rumor floating around for a long time now that Google is working on a web based OS well one thing to be assured is it will come with email,rss,social networking,calendar etc etc but till that comes it will just be a rumor nothing more then that.

But till there is a one full fledged web OS available I guess it is good to learn and follow all the news coming from that space and the XML Internet OS by Xcerion looks like an interesting piece of technology to see whats under the hood and who knows they might be bought by Google after all their product seems to be good and integrating it will Google offerings will make it killer and who knows a little bit of Ubuntu for bootstrapping your PC and then loading Firefox and thats it you are logged in to a central OS with all your normal applications there and Google has the capacity to do this if someone can come up with something like this well it will put a serious dent in Microsoft’s desktop OS market share.

This can be the future secure environment like Ubuntu then you have a secure browser Firefox and then you are just left at the insecurities of the app that you use and not worry about the other insecurities that creep in at all the levels of the normal OS for the Desktop architecture. Well the biggest losers in this architecture would be the anti virus companies etc as they would be left with no market for their products as far as viruses go well there have been quite a few web 2.0 viruses that have been seen in the wild. So this people will just have to change their product offerings I guess to be on demand virus scanning maybe form like a layer between the Web OS and the third party application provider. Well this is a challenging area lots of opportunities for anyone who wants to take them.

all excited about the blogcamp tomorrow

fritz — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:17:34 +0000

Well am all excited about the blogcamp tomorrow this is sort of events are a great place to meet like minded people many startup founders will be there (hopefully) and it will be a great place to make new friends (which is what I am looking forward too).

Have come all the way from goa for this meet the last blogcamp which was held in chennai. I could not attend so this time I made sure that I attended and one day I hope events like this happen in goa also maybe I should take the initiative and do something regarding this in my spare time

The things that I am looking forward too for tomorrows meet are

meeting like minded people
having fun with friends (sarvesh,abhimanyu and mesmerised)
coming across some killer startups and their demo’s
knowing if anyone else is come down from goa for this
and offcourse using sarvesh’s laptop to blog from the site since mine is in the office and will be going for repairs

Ok I just can’t wait for tomorrow now and I am more excited about my meeting with someone today evening then tomorrow’s meet.

hopefully the evening meeting can happen and I can get something to forget my heart breaking happy meal experience

search engine for softwares for the web,mobile and desktop

fritz — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:27:49 +0000

came across a search engine for software called deligio when I was doing my weekly sunday casual searching (whom am I kidding I do casual surfing every day hahahaha) it is a nice little search engine it wont be a google killer but it is a nice little web app for people like me who are constantly on the look out for new softwares to try out.

I was a bit reluctant to register myself on this site but then I said i will give it a try and invited two friends also sorry abhimanyu and sarvesh (this dude maintains one of the most read blogs in Goa) for sending you one more invite (you guys must be cursing me since nowadays inboxes are filled with invites from thousands of social networks cropping up all over the place like mushrooms in the monsoons ) well after registration got my normal mail for verifying my email id did that and I logged in it was not much to do after logging in you can add softwares that you know off browse softwares put by other users and also add them to your favorites, browse through the hotlist etc etc

Once inside I liked the good use of ajax that was there in the interface you see a bit of web 2.0 style ajax once you register itself but add to favorites one was the best one that I liked. Very few sites use ajax for the actual purpose of making the user experience a better one some people are using it just to show that they are 2.0 in their approach and are the next big thing.

There are a decent amount of users of the site so there is content there to go through and consume but I think it is a nice way to keep track of softwares that you have tried out and also see what others who have similar tastes in softwares are using etc and not to forget the search engine of user submitted softwares I did a search on rss and css and was impressed with the list of softwares that were returned as results overall I would say an ok site to visit once in a while if only they had a browser plug in to submit softwares which you stumble upon the idea of logging in to a site and submitting is a bit web 1.0 now (hahahaha) but seriously i think if they have a plug in for Firefox for people to submit software site links there would be far greater activity on the site (if by chance deligio people are reading this try to get this implemented )

Well for people who dont want to register I guess they should be ok with just the search engine part but remember what you are searching for has been submitted by someone else so if you add the list of softwares you know of might help someone else. I tried adding filezilla but came to know it was already added by 16 people. I will try adding some more softwares now which I like and use oh and one thing that disappointed me was for adding new softwares on the form under license they didn’t have open source listed as one of the options

this weekend played around with c#

fritz — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:45:30 +0000

this weekend after a break of I think almost a year and a half I got down to program and play around with a desktop application there is something in rss based desktop aggregators that I have been waiting to try out for some time now but could not find the time to do so. I found a good library called rss.net which formed the base for my sample rss aggregator. I chose c# for it becoz before taking up the current job I was studying C# but since the job required web programming skills in php/mysql I didn

Sexiest companion ever

fritz — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:08:33 +0000

This is the coolest Ajax IDE on the block the cool features are auto code completion for both css and javascript even for user defined functions the IDE is built for ajax it comes with the following ajax frameworks to base your ajax projects on mochikit,jquery,yahoo UI,prototype,rico,dojo,Aflax
And scriptaculous.

What can I say if you are into web 2.0 programming or just planning to start then this is a wonderful companion to have during your journey.

Well where is the sexiest companion I was talking it can be found at
http://www.aptana.com