We have lately been seeing a few interesting developments in the area of Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Though the concept has been around for a while, what has really brought focus to this area is Amazon’s offering of cloud computing, Hardware-as-a-service and SimpleDB, which is essentially Database-as-a-Service (DaaS), as discussed here.
Recently, LongJump.com, a California based company, announced [...]

Found a good video on Semantic Web that was worth sharing.

I often don’t look at the screen of my GPS since voice instructions are more than enough (I made sure the GPS tells the street names before buying it). In fact looking at that small screen while driving can’t be comfortable to anyone in my opinion. But what if you don’t like to listen to [...]

As all of us know, an application comprises broadly of 3 tiers, the presentation, the business tier and the database. The Web 2.0 phenomenon has had a huge impact on the way applications are designed and developed. The most obvious changes are on the presentation layer because that’s what’s visible, but the business tier [...]

Google yesterday released a chart API that let’s you create great looking charts on the fly using the data/settings provided in the url. It supports a bunch of charts like line chart, bar chart, pie chart, Venn diagrams and gives you pretty much complete control over how the charts look. You can choose size, color [...]

If you have used Yahoo Pipes, you would have noticed that it’s great at combining feeds, applying operators, filtering etc, but when it comes to showing the data on UI, you’re pretty much left on your own. The “Run Pipe” option does come with some sort of UI, but it’s not useful if you [...]

Now even the core technnology companies like Oracle are joining the Social Networking and Web 2.0 bandwagon with an enterprise twist to their offerings.
In today’s Oracle OpenWorld, they provided a sneak-peek into the Social dimension and mash-up like applications that they are going to support in their next-gen “Fusion” release. Following is a quote from [...]

The Google phone is rumored to be announced today. The details regarding whether it’s going to be a physical phone or a platform for application development on smart phone or a combination thereof are all a matter of speculation now. However, the question that comes to mind is, is this project related to OpenSocial that [...]

In one of the previous posts, I had written about Google Mashups editor and how it complements Yahoo Pipes. Here is a small mashup I created sometime ago which puts that concept to use.
The mashup I am going to talk about can be seen here. It’s a simple application that given the name of the [...]

Google today launched the OpenSocial platform for building application across social networking sites. The website is now live, check this out: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
OpenSocial is now live for orkut, their social networking platform. Apart from having “Many sites, one API” approach as mentioned on OpenSocial website, what also makes it unique is the ability to write multi-page [...]

Looking around on the web, it seems the biggest hurdle that people face while writing a Facebook application in java is getting the authentication piece to work. There are some blogs where the solutions have been posted, and that would work. However, I noticed that they recommend using login servlet url as the callback [...]

So says Gartner, in a recent research report. Here is what it says about Mashups and composite apps:
By 2010, Web mashups will be the dominant model (80 percent) for the creation of composite enterprise applications. Mashup technologies will evolve significantly over the next five years, and application leaders must take this evolution into account when [...]