Archives for August, 2008

Archive for August, 2008

Is the Title dead?

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I’ve been wondering for some time about this as a designer of functional UI i often see that the Title field in most cases is a duplication of the body first line or a summary of the body part. do you think that the title field is dead? why is the Mobile SMS feature does not have a Title field? is it obsolete? Could someone just invent a good function that can summarize a body into a title? Dont know… just a random thought.

Whats coming up the road

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Like all other working bees we added more and more cool features that will be released very soon:

  • Google Apps Engine Deploy and API library
    You can go ahead and start building your google app engine driven website using devunity and deploy it to your google app engine account. You can install the google app sample application to get started.
  • Yahoo BOSS Api
    We added the Yahoo! BOSS search framework api and some examples to help you get started with that next search application. Why not build the first Google Apps search application that utilize Yahoo! BOSS? ;)
  • Digg Api
    We added the Digg Api toolkits for Php, Python and javascript for your easy installation, go ahead and start experimenting with that!
  • Fring Mobile Api
    We also added the Fring Mobile Application Api to let you build the next big mobile application driven by google apps engine with search ability of Yahoo! BOSS. Just kidding. You can just use the Fring to build cool mobile applications easly and deploy it to your server.

Whats coming soon enough:

  • Google Application engine development testing server for your disposal to check your code without deploying it to a remote server.
  • Amazon Cloud services deployment service.

My other computer is a data center

Monday, August 4th, 2008

There is a great article posted at techcrunchit.com by a guest writer

Here is a small part of a great article:

Web 1.0: Anyone Can Transact
Web 1.0 was about the emergence of the “killer app” from companies like eBay, Amazon.com, and Google. Although we thought of them as Web sites at the time, they were really amazing applications with a level of functionality, ease of use, and scale that had rarely been seen before by the average consumer. Transactions, not just of goods but of knowledge, became ubiquitous and instant. The efficiency and transparency that was once the domain of global financial markets was now at the command of individual consumers and businesses. Web 1.0 remains a huge driving force today and will continue to be for some time.

Web 2.0: Anyone Can Participate
Web 2.0 is about the next generation of applications on the Internet, featuring user-generated content, collaboration, and community. Anyone can participate in content creation. Posting a viral video on YouTube, tagging photos from a party on Flickr, or writing about politics on Blogspot requires no technical skill, just an Internet connection. Participation changes our idea of content itself: content isn’t fixed at the point of publication—it comes alive. Google’s AdSense became an instant business model in particular for bloggers, and video-sharing sites have rewritten the rules of popular culture and viral content.

Whether you are creating a business around Web 1.0 or 2.0, building massively scalable data centers that are secure, reliable, and highly available is not a job for the faint of heart or shallow of pocket. For companies entering the emerging software as a service industry, the massive time and capital requirements remain a substantial barrier to entry. Moreover, traditional client-server software development is still mired in painful complexity. And the “rewards” for creating a successful application are arduous deployments and maintenance.

Web 3.0: Anyone Can Innovate
Web 3.0 changes all of this by completely disrupting the technology and economics of the traditional software industry. The new rallying cry of Web 3.0 is that anyone can innovate, anywhere. Code is written, collaborated on, debugged, tested, deployed, and run in the cloud. When innovation is untethered from the time and capital constraints of infrastructure, it can truly flourish.

Go read the rest of the article here