Posts Tagged with ‘web-applications’

Slowly, but surely, people seem to be performing more and more tasks through the use of online web applications rather than with traditional desktop software.
For this reason, Mozilla Labs announced yesterday that it will be launching new experiments that aim to seal the gap between the desktop and web apps" as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur."
The first application to surface from these experiments is Prism, formerly known as WebRunner, which is designed to [...]

Yahoo!, in a seeming bid to make its name more attractive to greater swaths of developers throughout the world, debuted last year the first in its series of Open Hack Day events in September in its hometown of Sunnyvale, California, followed by a London event in June of this year, and most recently at the Taj Residency in Bangalore, India, last weekend.
The Asian edition of Open Hack Day, held on October 5th, brought together roughly “100 Web developers, who toiled [...]

I sometimes have a strange feeling that a majority of new web applications that are launched daily are mostly launched for bloggers to write initial reviews, create some buzz and bring a handful of early adapters to the application. And only a select few apps actually get visibility among mainstream users, those that are actually supposed to create the community, share content and participate in various activities on this or that website.
Sure, the best Web 2.0 products eventually reach [...]