Yesterday, a few people asked me about running flash applications on Dekoh. We are working on a music organizing/streaming application which is a flash application. We only have a preview of screen shots now. In the meantime I created a small video of the dashboard that also uses XML-HTTP from Flash.
The culture of entrepreneurship and startups has started blooming in India again. This is very good considering the brain power the country carries. I came across “dreamzhunt” a new ideas contest for technoprenuers in India. The submissions are already open. Check out if this is for you.
Creating desktop apps using web standards is cool. It opens whole world of opportunities of integrating your computer seamlessly into the web. We have seen the cool apps of mashing google map with google calandar…with desktop RIA you can do Outlook mashup with google map or Excel mashup with e*trade. It is thrilling!
The key question is where should the desktop RIA UI be presented? Inside your favorite browser or separate native window?
If it is not inside the existing browsers it means one of the 2 options:
1. Users switch between the browser (for pure web) and native window (for web+desktop)
2. Native window becomes the defacto browser for both pure web and for desktop RIA
The 2 options sounds like devil or the deep sea. While the former could be a pain for the user, the latter looks like ‘browser war’ all over again.
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Ryan Stewart did a quick preview of Dekoh and it got covered on TechCrunch.
As expected Techcrunch effect showed on our website with hits and registrations soaring up dramatically. Our excitement has gone up several notches after a very positive review and getting on Techcrunch. If you are not aware of how many pitches Techcrunch receives, read this post by Guy Kawasaki.
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Tagging is so powerful a tool that it cannot continue to just remain on certain web sites we visit. Most of us know that tagging can be very helpful in finding related information or content (such as all photos of a place). Tagging also gives different perspectives of the content/information pile, such as what is relatively more popular, which topics have more content, what else should I look at, etc. I love tagging for its very flexible, no-rules kind of approach to information classification.
The same tagging mechanism could be very powerful when implemented on the desktop, although you may be the sole creator and user for the tags. Tagging desktop content (particularly your fast growing personal media collection) will be very useful for recalling items at a later point of time, when all you can remember about the item is some associations (maybe you put them as tags). You may not remember the file name, or title or location on disk of the item that you want to recall.
On the desktop, Popular tags will have a different meaning. Instead of indicating how many people tagged a particular item with ‘this tag’, it would be how many items have been tagged with ‘this tag’.
We implemented tagging in Dekoh and soon realized that the power of tagging can only be realized when
Read more details on how Dekoh tagging achieves these. BTW the Dekoh tag widget is open source. You can see live demo and download from www.dekoh.org
Press Release | San Jose, CA. | February 21, 2007.
Pramati announces Dekoh, a new desktop platform for applications that can deliver integrated experience of web and desktop
Out-of-the-box the platform provides web 2.0 features like tagging, sharing and commenting features. Soon to follow the release will be Dekoh personal media applications.
Pramati Technologies today announces its plan to launch Dekoh a new platform for applications that bring an integrated experience of the web and the desktop.
So far Desktop applications and web applications were built and deployed as silos. Desktop applications are usually written OS specific and offer richer user interface. Web applications are accessed through web browsers. They require Internet connectivity and user data uploaded or saved on websites. Collaborating and sharing data is easy in web applications.
Dekoh brings the unique benefits of desktop and web together. Dekoh platform consists of Dekoh Desktop and Dekoh Network.
Dekoh Desktop is a small footprint download that can be installed on user’s desktop in a single click. Dekoh Desktop includes a web server on which applications written using open standards like JSP, Ajax, DHTML, Flash can be deployed and accessed thru a web browser. Applications deployed on Dekoh Desktop are automatically enabled for web 2.0 functions like tagging, sharing, commenting, rating, etc.
Dekoh Network allows controlled sharing of applications or content on the web. A user can share application/content on his or her desktop with a buddy, who can go to userID.dekoh.net and access it. The key thing to note is that the user is not required to upload different kind of content to different websites. Instead, the shared content and applications remain on the desktop and are served from there.
Jay Pullur, CEO of Pramati says, “Dekoh bridges the big divide between Desktop and the Web. Using browser-based applications seamlessly when offline or online is a compelling value. Writing desktop applications using the same web standards like Java™, AJAX, DHTML, Flash, and PHP is exciting for developers”.
Initial release of Dekoh will include the platform and media applications for Photos and Music. An alpha release of Dekoh is expected in a few weeks. A public beta is expected in April of this year. Dekoh software will be free and open sourced. It will available at http://www.dekoh.com.
Contact:
Vijay Pullur
San Jose, CA
Tel – (408) 435 2700
Fax – (408) 435 2703
Email – vijay(at)dekoh.com
Web – www.dekoh.com
