Well, we are all really excited here to see the responses and feedback we get from you all.

One major request is that we add ruby support, No problem. We will be rolling out a major update next week with ruby support and much more!

Keep checking this blog for updates, we got a major surprise for you all that requested to debug code offline (hint hint).

Here are a few notes from the tc50 event:

1. what presenting companies i loved and why
   * Tonchidot for a good product which was not very innovative in technology but innovative in the way they implemented existing technologies in a smart and beautiful way. and a good laugh.
   * Shryk because i saw how they started in the early rehearsals and what they accomplished at the end. amazing work. smart idea and very innovative.
   * Yammer because i use it from the second they released it.
2. what demo pit companies i loved and why
   * Iamnews for the idea that people can control the media in the years to come. and for the people that run it.
3. what details of the event i loved/liked about the event
   * The fact that they disqualified certain companies that attended the event. Good job.
   * I really liked the rehearsals part, i think if companies could get even a week of intensive rehearsals it could be much better.
   * I really liked the after party on each day hosted by different companies. makes you do some layed back networking with the staff and people.
   * The amazing venue. Big, spacious. Easy registrations, for 1000+ event there were no long lines.
   * Tyler,sarah,jenny,jason,tanya for doing an amazing job getting everything to run smoothly as possible for the presenting companies and everybody.
4. what details of the event i would like to see improved
   * More sitting areas
   * Better cab service. maybe do an arrangement with some town car company so people can car-poll back to the hotel and from it.
   * More restrooms.

After being jet-lagged for 3 days i finaly sat down to write our techcrunch50 post post blog :), its been some time since we’ve updated the blog because we had a hectic insane month of planning toward the techcrunch50 event. this is the first post among many to come on the whole event and thoughts we had.

If you registered for an alpha user, don’t worry, you will receive your alpha user log-in details in the coming week, due to the large amount of registrations we will be rolling out the invites in the upcoming week. Keep checking your inbox for updates. If you haven’t registered yet go ahead and get your user now, its getting pretty crowded over there.

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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.

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.

There is a great article posted at techcrunchit.com by a guest writer Marc Benioff (CEO of salesforce.com) about the evolution of the web and where are we going. Im only happy to say that devunity fits right inside the future that marc pictures.

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

We at Devunity enjoy researching new technologies, on one of my recent small researches i’ve been digging into the Cloud services. There has been alot of buzz going around the Cloud like services (PaaS) , platform as a service you might call it. Very interesting concept that actually works.

Rishi Chandra, product manager for Google Enterprise, speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in the US, said: “The next 10 years of innovations are going to be in the cloud. Enterprise software is not going away but there is a transition taking place.”

Chandra laid out his case for why Google stands to gain more business customers in the coming years. Foremost is Google’s strength in the consumer market, which he said will eventually translate into a stronghold in business computing.

He said: “The cloud has arrived. It’s not a question of when but how fast it will arrive. Google runs itself off of Google apps.” Is it true? did all of the hosting companies are starting to loose grip of their customers? Why host your software on a static none agile server with limitations, Pay a monthly fee for something you are not actually using.

The concept of your software being served alive when a user needs it is a very interesting concept.

Alot of Facebook applications for example because of the low cost of building one and the users you can have for your application, alot of developers host their facebook applications on the amazon cloud inorder to offer a response to 5 - 5million users that will want to use your application. The fact that you cannot predict the popularity of your application comes in conjunction with buying a server? its like buying a plane togo to the office just in case you will need to fly to the office in some cases. The pay as you go model is proving more and more as the next business model for Internet companies in this day and age.

Another trend, he said, is the rise of the “power collaborator” within companies. “In the enterprise, things are still built for the power user. Software is built by experts for experts. Increasingly, people work in teams. We believe that you need to do a complete rethink to accommodate this new generation of employees. It shouldn’t matter what OS people use, or in what geography they’re located. Software is based on open standards. This is the vision of cloud computing and why we think this is the vision for the next generation of enterprise computing.”

Do enterprises use open source software? from my experience not a whole lot even like using mysql. CTO’s tend to want parents for a certain piece of software and a 1800 number to call to when something fails. That’s one of the major problems with open source. Not to mention using online services to manage and collaborate online. The whole privacy issue emerges there. what sane company will want to publish their bug tracking information online? Probably none, just because of ignorance. In a study i’ve made for a sister product we had called betabug.com, More then 95% of all bugs published on internal bug tracking software are formulated from 5 lines describing the bug and 0 patent infringement secrets and company confidential information.

According to the Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, “by 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms”.

The report also predicts a “stealth” impact for the technology in embedded form: “Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open source despite their opposition.” IT managers who simply want to cut costs will look to SaaS rather than open source, says the Gartner report. “More technically adventurous IT projects will often prefer the direct use of open source and on-premises software development, but the mainstream IT organisation looking to reduce the IT cost burden will tend to choose SaaS where it is available.”

If we go into the hard facts, Salesforce CEO got it right, in the recent year salesforce.com grew more then 60% in income thanks to their force.com platform.
“Our fourth quarter and full-year results show that businesses are selecting the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service and cloud computing over failed client-server alternatives,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com.

“There’s only one way to describe both the consolidation of the industry and the growing number of companies choosing innovation, not infrastructure: The End of Software.”Revenue: Total Q4 revenue was $216.9 million, an increase of 50% on a year-over-year basis and an increase of 13% on a quarter-over-quarterbasis. Subscription and support revenues were $196.5 million, an increase of 49% on a year-over-year basis and an increase of 11% on a quarter-over-quarter basis. Professional services and other revenues were $20.4 million, an increase of 68% on a year-over-year basis and an increase of 24% on a quarter-over-quarter basis.

Marc Benioff claims that software is dead. I think so too. Whats the point in installing a piece of software that sits static on your drive, acts as the same as online service but lacks in agility?

http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39244956,00.htm?r=1

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/4904

Hurry up on those alpha registrations will ya? according to BBC the Large Hadron Collider based in geneva LHC will ‘maybe’ produce mini black holes or unknown material that will ‘maybe’ consume the earth into a hot lump of unknown material or just transport us into limbo land.

The organization - known better by its French acronym, Cern - will operate the collider underground in a 27km-long tunnel near Geneva.

Most physicists believe the risk of a cataclysm lies in the realms of science fiction. But there have been fears about the possibility of a mini-black hole - produced in the collider - swelling so that it gobbles up the Earth.

This Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a powerful and complicated machine, which will smash together protons at super-fast speeds in a bid to unlock the secrets of the Universe in hope that a catastrophic incident involving a black hole and some scientists running screaming ‘Its happening!’ wont actually happen.

scary stuff, hurry on that alpha signups, we might release our next version in a galaxy far far away.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7468966.stm

Good people of firefox can now run both of them at the same time with MultiFireFox application. Turns out all the issue of running firefox 3.0 and 2.0 at the same time was profiling being loaded and re-loaded everytime you load firefox at diffrent verrsions. Now you can use this handy application from codecontortionist.com to load a specific profile with firefox so you can enjoy version 2.0 and 3.0 at the same time. Great tool. Great solution. Stright to my dock. (OSX only).

http://codecontortionist.com/software/mac-osx-software/multifirefox/

I’ve downloaded firefox 3.0 and im happy to say that our development platform is fully compatible with firefox 2-3.0, amazing version, we recommand downloading it for better and faster experience of the web and devunity.

Also, go ahead and set a world record by downloading firefox. We got our certificate already