Geoffrey Moore, the author of “Crossing the Chasm” (the “unofficial bible of silicon valley”) will be giving a talk entitled “What Kind of Software Company are You Trying to Build” in Santa Clara next Tuesday. The event is hosted by the software SIG of TIE Silicon Valley.
I’ve written about Moore’s model and it’s implications for usability before. As the owner of a tiny little software company myself, I expect to learn a lot from this event about how to position our software in the marketplace. Notes on a talk he gave a few weeks ago should give a sense of what to expect.
Month: April 2005
Trip report from Recent Innovations in Search BayCHI event
The BayCHI panel on Search innovation was a huge success. I’ve never seen the main auditorium at PARC so full…the aisles were full of people sitting on the floor (don’t tell the fire marshal) and 30 or so people had to watch remotely from a television in the lobby.
I’ll start by summarizing the key themes that came out in the panel discussion / questions and answer session. I’ll follow up with a blow-by-blow that captures some of the specifics of the show-and-tell that each company was allowed to do.
Whitepaper on RIA technologies
A nice little white paper comparing the different RIA technologies has just been published. It’s a good 30,000 ft overview of the different technologies available (including java and xaml and other non-swf, non-AJAX solutions). Among other things, it’s a great collection of links to articles and documentation on Flash, Laszlo/Flex, AJAX, etc.
Games, flow and RIA design
I have never been much of a game player. Apart from the occasional game of Solitaire during college (and a seriously disturbing brush with Grand Theft Auto last year), I managed not to get addicted even while hanging out with game obsessed geeks, and building Tetris for a computer science course. I would look at people addicted to computer games, and congratulate myself on knowing better.
Laszlo Unchained
The newest release of the Laszlo Presentation server (version 3.0b2) allows developers to use Laszlo technology (LZX) to develop swf-based applications, without requiring IT department to run the resulting applications using the Laszlo presentation server.
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