‘RIA’ posts

The New Times Reader: User Interface versus Community

Posted by John Eckman on 11 May 2009

While I wouldn’t go so far as Serge Jaspers and call the new Times Reader 2.0 AIR application “the future of newspapers,” I do think it’s an interesting demonstration of how different models for content consumption are possible in the assembled web. In short, Times Reader makes the bet that for at least some users, [...]

Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web

Posted by Optaros on 03 Apr 2009

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and me2me was | View post »

iPhone MMS prototype screencast

Posted by Optaros on 16 Mar 2009

Optaros has strong experience and background in building rich internet applications. With the iPhone, there is a platform on which we can leverage our experiences in usability and interactivity to build superior applications for our clients – and their demanding user communities – and helping our clients address the multi-channel challenge in an interactive and | View post »

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives

Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »

Open Source Java Toolkit for RIAs – Pivot

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Nov 2008

In this video from a webinar session with Optaros, Greg Brown and Todd Volkert explain and demonstrate Pivot Tookit, a Java framework for building Rich Internet Applications. The audio is a bit noisy for the first 3 minutes or so but cleans up after that. To really see the code samples you’ll likely need to | View post »

Webinar Presentation – Rich Internet Applications

Posted by John Eckman on 08 Nov 2007

A few weeks back, on Oct. 30th, my colleague Hugo Schotman and I presented an Optaros Webinar on Rich Internet Applications. Unfortunately we weren’t able to record the audio of the whole presentation, but the slides themselves are now available on the Optaros site: “Rich Internet Applications: The What, Why, When, and How” (pdf, 3.37 [...]