This article is a transcript from a recorded conversation I had with Anatole
Tartakovsky and Victor Rasputnis – my business partners at Farata Systems.
This conversation took place on the mountain after the day of skiing.
Yakov. There are many ways of creating Web applications and creating them for
the enterprises is not the same as developing a Web site for a pizzeria in
your neighborhood. During the last five years we’ve been using mainly Adobe
Flex for development of the front end of Web applications. Flex applications
work in a well known and predictable run-time environment called Flash
Player. The code is compiled and you have convenient tools for development.
Flex is undergoing “Under New Management” transformations these days.
Even though Flex remains the best framework for development of Web
applications, you can feel the pressure of HTML5. But using just HTM... (more)
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With Iceland’s DataMarket.com, Founder Hjálmar Gíslason is on his
fourth startup, and ready to expand overseas. Focused upon becoming “Google
for datanumbers,” DataMarket concerns itself with collecting and providing
access to quantitative data; numbers from governments, international
agencies, and commercial providers around the world.
Alongside the business of collecting data and making it available for
download, DataMarket has invested in providing tools with which users can
visualize data (typically in the form of a graph) and even compare results
from ... (more)
OAKLAND, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/27/12 -- More than 50 winners of the 2011
Bulldog Digital/Social PR Awards for Outstanding Achievement by Agencies and
Individuals in PR and Corporate Communications were announced today by
Bulldog Reporter. Winners enter a pantheon of exemplary communications
practitioners, and their campaigns will be summarized in the Bulldog Awards
Digital/Social Awards Hall of Fame magazine, which is to be published in
March 2012 and in Bulldog Reporter's Daily 'Dog online trade journal.
Winners were chosen exclusively by working journalists from hundreds of ... (more)
SPIRIT DSP, the world's top voice and video over IP engines provider,
announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named
SPIRIT's product VideoMost.com a recipient of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY
Product of the Year Award.
VideoMost.com is massively multi-point, web-based videoconferencing software
product targeted for licensing to carriers and service providers as a
white-labeled branded service. VideoMost.com is based on SPIRIT DSP's video
engine for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS clients and Windows or Linux-based
video conferencing servers. The software em... (more)
Google+ is opening its door to teenagers. If you’re between 13 to 18 years
old, Google+ will provide certain safety measures to prevent you from
over-sharing your information.
The precautions include warning messages about posting publicly and
preventing strangers from joining video hangouts. Read the full article at
PCMag.com
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