Online Office Wars Continue Ajax vs Flash
Monday, June 15th, 2009Google Docs includes Documents, Presentations and SpreadSheet for onlne collabortation in an office type envoronment in a very intuitive and easy to use AJAX powered interface.
It provides a safe online space to work with your Microsoft Office Style documents including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Powerpoint document types.
It has become the standard for me [...]
RIATrax now Open Source
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009In case you missed my announcement this morning on InsideRIA.com (RIATrax Event Tracking Now Open Source), RIATrax is now open source and hosted on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/riatrax/ Please let me know if you have used this library and any URL’s that are RIATrax enabled.
SCOOP: Google has made a change to the way it indexes SWFs
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Dominic Gelineau has just posted an inside scoop about the recent changes that Google has made to the way it has been indexing its SWF’s. This discovery was made through a series of experiments that Dominic has been doing to test Google’s abilities to index SWF content. Read the full story here.
Thanks to M$ for Spreading the Flash Player
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Not sure if this is new information to anyone but I stumbled across this little gem when I did a Google search for “get flash player” today.
I was surprised to see that the 2nd link was a Microsoft URL (go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=6457) which nicely redirects to the Adobe Flash Player download page.
Good news for RIA and SWF
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Google and Adobe have been working together for a while to get SWF content indexed and today, the announcement that this is finally occurring has come to fruition.
The good news: Embedded text and text deriving from external files are now being indexed and are searchable through Google.
The bad news: Any content loaded from a server [...]