Archive for Web Apps
June 18, 2007 at 8:34 pm · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, PHP, Web Apps
Tim Wilson has just posted PressConnect, a "PHP script which interigates a WordPress database and returns posts, pages, and creates menus in an XML format."
Tim's site/blog runs a completely Flash front-end using WordPress as the content management system, so he has some experience making Flash and WordPress work together. You can even see the normal WP install at this URL.
On his PressConnect page he explains the necessary process of retrieving the data from the WP database and using PHP to format it as XML. This concept isn't exactly new, but Tim has done everyone researching the topic a favor by explaining the process in detail, creating a diagram, and posting some of the PHP code which interfaces with WP. Just another example of the Flash community giving back.
For other takes on the same idea see Arpit's blog Code Zen and Brendan Dawes' wp-xml file (link to the file is at the very end of the post).
April 21, 2007 at 8:16 pm · Filed under Tech, Web Apps
A while back when Dave Gray, the founder of XPLANE, was in town he asked me how I would define Web 2.0. I suppose I hadn't thought about it before then, or I should say haven't tried to distill it down to something simple. I have seen and heard hundreds of definitions for Web 2.0 over the past year or so, and my response was to start spewing those definitions in hopes of tying them together for a conclusion. Obviously, that didn't go so well.
So, after some thought, I've decided on the following as my personal definition:
"Web 2.0" describes sites like Digg and YouTube, where the audience itself provides material for the Web site.
But, what does the rest of the internet community use as their collective definitions? Tim O'Reilly has claimed in the past that he coined the phrase "Web 2.0" - if you can coin something this generic. Here is Tim's definition, which takes five pages to distill. Five pages? Too long-winded. Give me the elevator pitch (at least let us at XPLANE distill is for you). Maybe his second approach is a little better:
"Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called "harnessing collective intelligence.")"
Based on that definition, maybe the fact is that "Web 2.0", as I stated above, is inherently generic and broad. I wonder if the term "Web 3.0" will come to have a consensus definition. But, until then, what do you think Web 2.0 means? And what do you think Web 3.0 will come to mean?
April 17, 2007 at 2:57 pm · Filed under Joost, Tech, Web Apps
I have Joost invites to give away -- first two people to leave a comment on this blog will get an email with their invite in the next day or so.
Please be sure to enter the email address you want your invite sent to when leaving the comment. It doesn't have to be in the comment itself, just in the comment form -- that way only I'll be able to see it.
Enjoy!
P.S. - Apparently if you have an invite you are an official beta tester, but I was really just looking for their logo when I noticed they are only allowing badges like the one to the left to be used... so "official beta tester" it is!
[Update: all invites have been sent out. I'll be sure to post if more come my way.]
March 5, 2007 at 1:47 pm · Filed under Adobe, Web Apps
I'll bet this has been blogged about quite a bit today, but maybe it is worth posting again: Adobe CS3 will be formally announced on March 27th. I found this post on an official Adobe blog that speaks to the release. One thing to note is that while the apps will be offically announced on the 27th, they won't actually be shipping until later in the Spring. Here's hoping that they release a complete feature listing on the 27th.
As a side note, I noticed my beta of Fireworks CS3 expired today, so this date may have been planned for some time now.
[Update: a new build of Fireworks was released with an extended cutoff date, I just hadn't checked or downloaded it.]
February 14, 2007 at 3:32 pm · Filed under Flash, FlashForward Conference, Flex, Web Apps
At FlashForward 2006 in Austin Wallop was all the rage. They threw an awesome kickoff party, were looking for all the Flash developers they could to help build 'widgets' for their platform, and everyone was blogging about how cool it was of an idea.
In the past few months I hadn't heard a word about Wallop. I was wondering what happened, and today I saw a blog post from Ryan Stewart entitled "Signs of life at Wallop". It helps to explain the lack of communication coming out of Wallop/Microsoft (where it was founded -- surprising, I know, considering it is developed fully in Flash).
But, I'm interested to hear if anyone is still using, or better yet developing for, Wallop. It looks like they may be re-developing in Flex and I'm sure with all the hoopla around Flex these days that they'll pick up some interest there.
Check out Ryan's post here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=262
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