David Temkin, CTO of Laszlo Systems, explains that while the OpenAjax works to provide basic frameworks for Ajax, the challenge still lies with finding a good client-side developer.
Adobe, Laszlo Systems and Nexaweb Technologies Honored by Roundarch for Contributions to Rich Internet Applications
Wednesday December 14, 2:00 pm ET
Roundarch, a user-centric Web design and technology services provider, today announced it has awarded its first annual Interactive Experience Awards to three recipients: David Mendels, senior vice president of the Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit at Adobe; David Temkin, founder of Laszlo Systems; and Coach Wei, founder and CTO of Nexaweb Technologies -- for their pioneering efforts in the rich internet application (RIA) space. The Roundarch Interactive Experience Awards are given to companies that best represent the advancement of Web experiences through the integration of user-centric design and advanced technology.
"We singled out these three companies because each is breaking ground in the RIA space," said Jeff Maling, President and Chief Experience Officer at Roundarch. "These three companies are tackling traditional Web challenges -- such as Webmail, on-line commerce and on-line banking -- and transforming them into richer, more interactive and ultimately more profitable on-line experiences. They are also defining new uses for the Web by using rich internet technology to increase customer profitability and improve employee productivity."
Congratulations to David, and to the OpenLaszlo and Laszlo Mail teams!
One of our favorite OpenLaszlo applications, Pandora, has been slashdotted.
kramthegram writes
The Music Genome Project, an attempt to define music by it's traits in a way similar to DNA defines traits in humans has led to the development of Pandora. Pandora uses the song choices you make to see what traits appeal to you and present you with custom radio station. While limiting you to thumbs up or thumbs down, the "gene" heuristics allows for a very quick adaptation to your musical tastes." Not sure how deep it goes, and I'm not sure I like that it led me from The Who to Styx and Def Leppard. But this is a neat little tool for discovering new music.
Pandora.com is now the top Google hit for "pandora". Not bad for a company for a web site that's a few months old, competing with an established Greek mythological character!
O'Reilly's OnJava.com contains a set of interviews with prominent Java authors and developers about Java in the post-Ruby world. The article is called Ruby the Rival, and it's worth reading.
The article is mostly about the server side, but OpenLaszlo comes up too. OnJava blogger Robert Cooper is quoted as saying:
What irritates me is that in the "applet" space that Java invented, you look at Flash(plus Flex/Laszlo) and it crushes applets in both "cool" (get me to a good user experience quickly) and "powerful" (I get data binding/SOAP/XML-RPC/etc. for free). The fact that the "powerful" side of that isn't in the core JRE immediately kills the usefulness of applets, and if anyone can show me an applet that looks anywhere near as good as the Laszlo Dashboard demo in a similar number of lines of code, I might have a coronary on the spot. "Cool" counts for a lot, too.
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