Future of the Web Apps
Yep, there is a popular conference called “Future of Web Apps” going on but I am not sure if it will last long since it relies on the popularity of web apps. You might agree with me after you are done reading this post.
Now that the iPhone App store is up and running where millions across the world that have waited for interactive applications “i.e. chat/facebook” or games finally have a service available to them to get most out of their new iPhone 2.0. With that said, I am not sure what the future of the online web application will be.
Currently, I am working on developing an application based on Adobe Flex AIR which enables the user to do many things from watching live streaming TV, Video on Demand, reading news, to even live video broadcasting on webcam and send it to the hosting server in instance… is something hard to do online due to the web architecture and also the scalability of the web servers..
If you are not sure what Adobe AIR is, basically it is application that can run offline, access data on a person’s hard drive, have a desktop icon, and run without the need of a browser.
Have you tried the eBay AIR application? If not, I totally recommend that you do. Cause I guarantee you that once you use it, you will no longer use the web version for many reasons, including “syncs your sales/bids that you made while you were offline”.
Here is something from Adobe in regards of Ebay App:
“As buyers and sellers know, trading on eBay is a time sensitive activity that requires constant attention. Rather than continuously watching bidding activity on the eBay website or a third-party site, or constantly monitoring their email, users can now receive alerts via their eBay Desktop application whenever a change is made to a specified item. “The instant a bid comes in, you are notified without having to check your email or open a browser”
Even better is the ability for buyers to set up searches and feeds for favorite types of items. For example, if someone likes vintage t-shirts, he can set up a feed and have all auction detail that matches his search criteria sent directly to his desktop.”
So you tell me, why do we need a web app? A web app will not work unless if you are online? Plus, there are more personal computers than servers in this world that applications can rely on…so why?
Sphere: Related ContentDefinitely, Waiting in line for iPhone is glorious
Robert Scoble, Socobleizer.com, just posted how it is “glorious” thing to wait in line for iPhone, but I am not sure to wait 6 days ahead like those people.
But it is definitely fun and exciting to wait in line with other people who have the same common “the iphone!”, and from there you can socialize and so on.
But where I am at right now, there is no actual Apple store and even if there is, they won’t be selling iPhone yet till vodafone show up. But ha! even if we had one, not even crazy person will be waiting in line for days nor hours due to the heat (115F +).
Am I getting one? Most probably, will be in the States less than two weeks from now.. so if you know me, then let me know you need one!
Sphere: Related ContentBill Gates Verdict on Windows: it SUCKS!
Todd Bishop, Seattle P-I reporter, has published a 2003 email from Bill Gates to his Windows developers. The email states Bill’s experience with installing movie-maker from Microsoft.com and how he found that to be mission impossible due to bugs in Microsoft.com site & Windows usability.
But from what it seemed like from the email, that Bill never tried on updating his Windows with patches nor installing something into his Windows. But actually that is not the case, Bill Gates is a type of person who is not lazy nor ignorant. But basically, he can’t help it because Windows is out of hope!
Now, this email is dated 2003, things haven’t changed at all. It’s almost impossible to get things done in comparison to Apple Mac OS (leopard). And this is merely one of the reasons why I gave up on Microsoft and its all products. Even Microsoft Office for Mac is still haunting me with its bugs and usability issues.
It seems like Microsoft developers think they are always right and believe their customers are just happy because they never receive any feedback. That’s true, they never receive any feedback… because the feedback function is not working!
eh, I should kiss good bye to any chance of me working for Microsoft!
p.s. I will update this blog post once I have better experience with Microsoft products 
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Sphere: Related ContentAl Jazeera Anchorman and Social Media “twitter”
It really didn’t take much of an effort to convince my father Jamal Rayyan, Al Jazeera anchorman, to join Twitter and interact with its community.
My father will be asking twitter’s community for questions or opinions to be discussed in the News programme called “Hassad Al Youm” in English “Today’s Harvest”.
Though, I am little skeptical on how things will turn out to be due to the fact that Arab community on Twitter or on Social platforms is very small, but I am hoping this will encourage Arabs to join social communities to have their voice delivered/heard on Al Jazeera.
Anyway, you can follow him on twitter. His username is jamalrayyan and the link to the twitter is: http://www.twitter.com/jamalrayyan
Also, you can follow his blog: http://www.jamalrayyan.com
Oh, let me take this opportunity to say: I have twitter also! you can follow me on http://www.twitter.com/mrayyan
Sphere: Related ContentGoogle IO Conference: Videos are available
Not sure how many of you wanted to go to Google IO conference. Well, I wanted to, but I was and still am stuck to this project which we are about to launch.
Anyway, Lucky me and for others who wanted to go but couldn’t. Google was generous enough to release videos of all sessions of all tracks on their site: http://sites.google.com/site/io/
If the page is empty, then login to Google.com/Sites with your Google account before clicking that link.. And that should fix it.
In case if you wanted to know what sessions I am interested at, here they are:
- Creating a Client-Side Search Engine with Gears
- Keynote: Imagination, Immediacy, and Innovation… and a little glimpse under the hood at Google
- Building Scalable Web Applications with Google App Engine
- And more…
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Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
