This Week in Web Applications (and Last Week and …)

Opinion
Apr 16, 20072 mins

OK, so I’ve been rather busy and I forgot to highlight what has been covered in my Network World Web Applications newsletter for the last few weeks. Without further ado, here’s the latest:

AfterCAD Insite, showing the client what you’ve got 04/16/07

I’m amazed not only by how fast business processes have moved onto the Internet, but by how reliant on the ‘Net those processes have become. What got …

Curl: A serious RIA platform 04/11/07

Developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) is a technological minefield because choosing the right platform can make your project effective and efficient, while …

Scrapblog makes even a curmudgeon smile 04/09/07

I must admit to a rather curmudgeonly nature. My wife says it is because I am English and thus predisposed to sarcasm, ire, and irritability (there is …

Bar|Book rides the popsoc networking wave 04/04/07

Social networking has come a long way very, very fast. On the Web this area of personal interaction has evolved particularly rapidly from free form forums …

Saddling a Brontosaurus 04/02/07

In the last issue of the Web Applications Newsletter I wrote about a service called Socializr, which is designed for inviting people to events and coordinating …

Are you boring? 03/28/07

I’ve written before about Web applications designed to make event organizing easy and not been too impressed with what’s available. Today’s Web application, …

Kitchi, a data router for Web content and more 03/26/07

If you have ever had the problem of how to acquire data from, for example, one or more RSS feed or Web site and then redistribute the results as, …

Safer online transactions 03/21/07

As more and more businesses move online, the complexity of how we sell goods and services becomes more pressing. One of the biggest challenges is how to transfer …

Neighborhood America – customer touch specialists 03/19/07

One of the biggest wastes of resources in enterprise IT is reinventing the wheel. How often has your organization needed a solution and invested …

Pando makes light work of big files 03/14/07

The volume of multimedia content generated by consumers grows exponentially larger every day but the mechanisms for transferring this junk … er, valuable …