SQLFusion blogs

Got an email from Palm about dropping the Foleo and concentrating on their new operating system.

The iPhone technology is showing its effects also with Nokia demonstrating new touch screen capabilities for their next version of Symbian OS:
Nokia iPhone

The competition is reacting and the good news is that everything is moving the phone closer to a web terminal.

The number of web applications for the iPhone are increasing at a faster rate than any other Mobile OS.

They are web based allowing them to take full advantage of Web 2.0 technologies and networking capabilities.

With its 1 year advance Apple is setting up THE standard for cell phone web applications.

Next year we will mostlikely see Palm OS, Sybian, PocketPC and Opera releasing web browsers compatible with iPhone web applications.

Prediction never works, lets see....

I noticed that there is a new generation of Open Source software including ZenPhoto, Plogger, Lussumo Vanilla, Wordpress, Monket calendar, Photostack, Roundcube which follows a lot Defensive Design recipes.

Those applications take full advantage of Ajax to improve the user experience. Intuitive and simple seems to be the new rules in software development.

I am very impressed by what 37 signals do. Their influence is now everywhere in web based software. Directly or indirectly.

So thank you for taking software a step forward.

After Office Live it is Google's turn to offer a web site creation technology.

We anticipated the democratization of web site creation tools a couple of years ago and we invented a nice technology, called the Page Builder.

It is the first Ajax web site builder around.

It is currently sold to web hosting companies as a Do It Your Self web site solution under the Drag and Drop Site Creator brand. http://www.dragdropsitecreator.com/

Page Builder is already 70% open source. We are improving our documentation and preparing a full open source release very soon.

So please stay tuned...

We now have a lot of experience in site creation technology and I am waiting for my Beta access to Google Page Creator to see what they have and give you my 2 cts on it.

I do not see Google Page Creator or Office Live as a threat for our site creator, we are open source and we support / package / license to any web host or community builder who wants to offer site building features to their users.

This is definitely exciting.

Richard MacManus just listed Drag Drop Sitecreator in his blog.

He is asking tech comments on it.
I would say it is very cool but I am to much involved in the project for an honest opinion.

Give it a try and do not compare it to Homestead but to dreamweaver and contribute.

The online demo doesn't show the full platform (open source fusion) that powers it.
A few fortune 500 companies uses it to maintain complex database application with thousands of users.
From enterprise to a 5 pages web site, one tool and one platform (LAMP).

Richard also list other interesting projects and companies. Like inform.com looks very interesting, you can dig deep in the news and related context.
When you have to go parse 1000 news/blog articles a day any tools than can help is welcome.

Interesting blog (now part of my feeds).

Thanks,

A Bill Gates Interview on Google, Web applications and Open Source.
Very interesting, although it's a bit of a sales pitch. But the difference between the Microsoft software legacy and future trends is clearly evident.
He even talks about Frontbridge (an email company) -- we helped manage their massive MySQL Open Source database. It had more than a terabyte of data.
I don't know if Frontbridge was still using MySQL at the time of purchase, but when we worked with them they had a very strong open source culture, using Postfix, MySQL, PHP and Perl.
http://news.zdnet.com/Bill+Gates+takes+on+Google/2100-9593_22-5864352.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

That news is about Microsoft targeting the SMB market. Microsoft is also going after the web designers and web developers:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.aspx