Platforms such as Adobe AIR are making the Operating System less important; as I articulated previously in " Operating Systems are becoming less important to Consumers ". I decided to have a bit of a play to see how easy it was to build an...
Topics: adobe air, aptana studio, blogger, development, javascript, json

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OpenSocial came onto the scene at the end of 2007 but until now I hadn't got around to delving into it and I thought it was about time. My first observation was that its name is actually a bit of a misnomer. I expected data portability for social...
Topics: opensocial gadgets jsr168 portlets

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I have recently been working on a large Architectural diagram that a significant number of people have been looking at on a regular basis and have followed through its evolution. I have been doing some large changes to this diagram, but rather than...
Topics: brand, change

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Yesterday I attended my first barcamp / unconference; Barcamp Auckland 2 . Ludwig and his team did a superb job arranging this event. It was well organised and there were lots of great sessions that stimulated lots of thought provoking discussions. A key.
Topics: barcamp, barcampauckland2, bca2, ie8, mobile, openid, prediction, privacy, productivity, sms

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Several years ago I was a big fan of Portal Servers (in particular for internal use), and I thought that were going to take off as the standard for public-facing sites (in particular with the release of JSR 168). This however has never eventuated. I have.
Topics: portal

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