Adobe MAX 2008
Ted Patrick has announced the future location of Adobe MAX 2008: San Francisco Amsterdam Bangalore If there is no major shift in my life until then I’ll certainly be heading to the Amsterdam’s one 🙂 Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Semantic Search Engine – Database and User Input
Very basically we have created a technology which can represent the world’s knowledge in a form that is clear and accessible to humans, as well as being comprehensible to computers. This is different from the knowledge stored in websites and books, which is written in natural language that is good for humans, but incomprehensible to… Read More »
Europe – onAIR Tour
According Andrew Shorten’s blog, Adobe is preparing the onAIR Tour for Europe 🙂 Seems that Adobe is taking Europa very seriously, we are having the European User Group Tour, oriented for the User Group Community (from November 6th to November 16). The last night of this Tour is taking place in Geneva, if you are… Read More »
Web Credibility: how to have a persuasive website?
I had came across the notion of Credibility some times ago but at that time I didn’t take the time to read more about it. The notion is quite old (buzz started 2002) Now that I’m going a bit deeper in the art of web design if found Credibility very interesting. Credibility / Persuasion is… Read More »
Open Social Is Out :)
Just a copy from Opensocial homepage: The web is better when it’s social The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn. OpenSocial provides a common… Read More »
How Microformats Relate to the Semantic Web
Interesting article about the Semantic Web written by James Simmons about RDF VS Microformats. Before some quotes from the article, some really basic information about Microformats: Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works… Read More »
Web 3.0 and beyond: the next 20 years of the internet
I’ve just come across a very interesting article from the Times Online about the next 20 years of the Internet, they seem to do a little confusion of the WEB and the Internet but still it is interesting: […]the web will be able to connect every aspect of our digital lives – be it a… Read More »
Making Life Easier: World Usability Day: November 8
World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Even if this year the theme is health, it is a good time to check our website for usability issues, more and more visitors expect to have an usable website (also in… Read More »
Knowledge Representation and the Semantic Web
Peter Patel-Schneider – Explanation of the right way of creating the Semantic Web during a Google TechTalks. It’s a fairly old (thigs aren’t going so fast in that field anyway) but the main idea are still very interesting: “why building Semantic languages (RDF , RDFs, OML, …) is broken?”. Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Adobe 2007 European User Group Tour
It’s with a lot of pleasure that I’m working on the organization of the Adobe European User Group Tour that will make a stop at our local User Group. Our meeting will take place on November 16th and will focus on Adobe AIR and the future of the Adobe Flash Platform. I’ve you live in… Read More »
AIR Code Samples
Daniel Dura has posted on his blog two presentations (introduction to AIR & Flex 3) he made during some events (AIR tour & MAX). Along with his presentations is an archive of Flex Builder project, that contain most of the code he showed. Here is the list of sources you’ll find in the archive: Application… Read More »
MAX 2007 Chicago: Notes and Videos
First link by Mark Coppock, he wrote notes about most of the sessions that took place during MAX. His note are full of links and really worth the read! If you are more a vizual guys than a reader then head to Peter Elest’s blog where you can find a lot of Sneak Peeks videos:… Read More »
Google Browser (gBrowser) to Come End November?
I usually try not to forward “prediction”, but this one is interesting: In April 07, there had been rumors that google invested in a China-based free browser Maxthon. But then later on denied by both Maxthon and Google. Recently, there has been some more rumor about Google’s interest in such project after they register a… Read More »
Flash 10: Sneak Peek
[via beedigital] Watch this video, the future of Flash is really cool, Flash is heading more and more to complex MC interaction and 3D: Live video rendering on stage 3D + filters Live Timeline visualization: Beziers Path for animation!!! Path can be saved for other MC Skeleton structures for movie clips (drawing an animated arms… Read More »
Flex Component to VOIP
One more interesting tool was presented during MAX 2007 Chicago: Ribbit Phone a “Phone API for Flex” allowing us to develop application that can call phone. Lot of information and links to other media API Documentation Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!