Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Widgets for web 2.0

1March 2010


Widgets are stand alone program can be embedded into third party web pages to execute within the HTML base web pages without requiring different compilations. It is a chunk of code could run on the web page to offer a service, web Widgets has described using gadget, badge, module & snippet. & so on. All these technologies have been introduced due to an evolving trend in web 2.

Web Widgets are implemented using web technologies including HTML, java scripts, CSS & flash. Most of Widgets have developed using java libraries such as jQuer & Ajax which indeed makes the web page dynamic and graphically rich.

Google has released many gadgets lately in 2007, for example calculators, colanders, currency converters, fun games and many more.., these are free apps anyone can fix on to their web page as a service, as well as yahoo weather checker is one of apps freely anyone could embed in to a web page.

One important factor with Widgets is that the host does not control the content. The host does however control the placement of the Widget. The content would derive from another host. Therefore these apps are mostly in place to improve the looks and to increase feature of dynamical contents.



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What is Cloud Computing?

26February 2010


What’s the cloud? “Cloud” is a metaphor for the Internet. It’s an abstraction of how networks of computers are connected. Till recent pass most of the organization connect their resources using LAN & WAN, may be to interconnect their computers in order to use their application software within the company network. In fact with the evolving change in web 2 companies release software’s as a service where as any company that uses the application can get it as a service, Software-as-a-service, or SaaS, is an application that businesses access and use via the Internet.

Software-as-a-Service and the cloud have changed the landscape for businesses worldwide, from small businesses to the enterprise. No longer do you need to purchase expensive hardware and software for many business functions. If you have an internet connection, you can move much of your business computing to the cloud.






Cloud Development

In 2006 Google also take initiative of developing Cloud applications, software pieces released as services. Speaking in which salesforce.com Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is currently the leading cloud CRM application, with over 51,800 customers and over 1.1 million subscribers. Amazen.com was developed and released as a web services in 2002.

Cloud Economics

One of the significant fact of cloud computing is that Software-as-a-Service in the cloud delivers substantial cost savings compared to purchasing and maintaining software in-house. Cost analysis been evaluated on certain factors. For instance; that companies can achieve significant cost savings by migrating from on-premise email to Google Apps. Google Apps is an entire suite of business applications residing in the cloud: email, calendaring, documents, spreadsheets, presentations and collaboration.

Cloud Migration Process

It is challenging to determine which computing infrastructure will deliver the greatest benefits by moving to the cloud. The best starting point depends upon your current computing situation and immediate business needs; to achieve the highest short-term ROI, select the business area with upcoming hardware or software capital requirements.






Popular Cloud Applications






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Semantic Web

19January 2010


This is one of the most controversial topics in today’s World Wide Web and it has been described in so many different aspects, due to an evolving trend in World Wide Web and the way in which it has used. Semantic web is a common plat form for the community. Use the Information and services to cater the public to satisfy their need.



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AJAX

9January 2010


AJAX

It’s a concept of JavaScript and Xml. Mostly its using for above things we can categorized for those topics.

1. Form validations.

2. Online chat programs.

3. Photo gallery.

In the past developers used the server side script language for validate the forms, weak point of this is its takes time to do that  user can feel that but after Ajax came it was easy to developers and the users .user cant feel that. is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client side to create interactive web applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. The use of Ajax techniques has led to an increase in interactive or dynamic interfaces on web pages. The term Ajax has come to represent a broad group of web technologies that can be used to implement a web application that communicates with a server in the background, without interfering with the current state of the page. same thing  is happening in the chat programs. Mostly now peoples working with ajax.



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Why maintain W3C standards

8January 2010


That being said, that standards are for anyone and for everyone to follow but most of the time people seem to have not a much of consideration in the context of standardization. W3C is one of the standards been introduced in 1994 to world of web, referred to as World Wide Web Consortium. Standardization of web made much easier to assess to all web user. W3C is an international community that develops and introduces standards to ensure the long term growth of World Wide Web.

Most importantly it is giving the recommendation to development of web specification that describes standards for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, DOM & so on. W3C is the governing body of the World Wide Web designers, therefore designers or developers first of all must be aware of these standards for keep their projects up to date. Here are some of the benefits of W3C standards.

Easy of maintenance.

One of the great advantages is that a website provider would have maintaining a web standard is to save time and cost of re—cording it, because once the site is been developed according to W3C standards it would be compatible for any platform.

More User accessibility.

Once the web site is up to the standard of W3C it will be compliance with so many plat forms such as Mobil users there are lot of users access Internet using mobile devices and PDA’s, these web sites will compatible with any of those devices.

More browser compatibility.

Browsers are developed to understand certain standards; therefore any recommended site will be understood by most of the web browsers.

Reduce bandwidth.

Most recommended web sites striped away of unnecessary coding which make site smaller so it want take a full bandwidth for total access.

A competitive advantage.

By having well design will bring all define advantages which ultimately have a significant advantage over your competitor.

For more information on high standard W3C recommended web application contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355



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Google wave

28December 2009


One of the newest innovations that the Google has introduced to the web world is Google wave; it is an online real time tool for communication and collaboration. It is simply a place for users to share verity of information, live discussions and it is incorporated by photos, videos, maps and rich text formats.



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Web 2.0

17December 2009


What is web 2.0? There is no clear definition for the above term in fact it’s taken the life in a way the web has been used. But the concept as such more toward two way communication very much dynamic phase of web. Web 2.0 inherited the attributes of socialize, collaborative, interactive and responsive web. Therefore we are completely changing the way we used to interact with web, Internet, People and as well as business, in fact it changes the thinking Patten of all these extremes.

Web 2.0 is about harnessing collective intelligence, but this would not be possible without the technology to support it. Due to technology enhancement web applications could stand among the Internet users to operate as a knowledgebase hub.

* AJAX is a technology which design to be central concept of web 2.0. It is very much interactive and fast response because it will not spend the time for refresh. It simply displays what user asking for very mush responsive.

* Mashup is a concept which combines web pagers or applications with two or more external sources to create a new service. This concept is very much inline with web 2.0. In fact the revolution of web 2.0 has grabbed the concept for more use of constant changing enterprises.

* Blogging is a very popular concept in the context of social networking not only that Google AdSense, Flickr, BitTorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, search engine optimization, cost per click, web services, participation, wikis & syndication are a few concepts and technologies which help the revolution of so call web 2.0.

If you need any consult, Experts in web 2.0 Contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355



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Cloud Computing

16December 2009




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