assuming ease of use, cross-platform, wide acceptance, not domain specific etc.
Adobe’s decision to buy Macromedia wasn’t so bad after all!
How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs
“I want to talk about the implications for that marvelous aspect of the fundamental UNIX design: the pipe, and its ability to connect small independent programs so that they could collectively perform functions beyond the capability of any of them alone. What is the equivalent of the pipe in the age of the web? …This is one of the REALLY BIG IDEAS that is going to shape the next five or ten years of computing.”
Touted as the biggest change in computer chips in 40 years, the ‘high-k’ stuff allows to transition from current 65nm process to 45nm; Moore’s Law to endure, contrary to popular belief every n years that it has reached its limits! A simultaneous and independent breakthrough by IBM (and co) and Intel. IBM is to focus on higher performance, whilst Intel is to focus on lower power consumption at equivalent or better performance.
“The reason we’re allocating dollars to this sector is we think we can deliver attractive returns…It’s not because we want to do great things for the environment or great things for the world,” though he adds that that is a “great byproduct.”
Innovation vs. Invention… listen to what Paul Graham has to say.
Joost, aka the Venice Project — an Internet television browser developed by the Skype team — allows users to instantly flip among thousands of channels of full-screen video. The service is free, and it’s supported by one minute of targeted advertisements per hour.
Every so often there’s a tool that makes your life so much easy that you forgot you’re using it. Like many software developers, I have ended up with two different machines on my desk. One WinXP, the other Linux. Synergy is one tool that can make my life so much more easy.
One keyboard, one mouse to control two different machines, and different operating systems.
For a moment, forget about the technology that Google creates and focus on the innovative business model — Google as a cluster company — a core plus lots of small startups; and as a VC.
“The open source iText library makes PDF creation a snap. This article introduces iText and gives a step-by-step guide to using it to generate PDF documents from Java technology applications.” More generally, data can be written to a file or, for example, from a servlet to a web browser.
Balaji’s article is one of the better bits of analysis on the Indian economy I’ve read recently. note: with my financial background hat on!