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Web

Web 2.0 way of running a web application

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Question: How do you turn a Web 1.0 application into a Web 2.0 one? Answer: Pull the plug. I’ve been involved in comments over at Robert Scoble’s on the Zooomr crash and burn, and make no mistake: the application is down and out, and there is no plan in place to get […]

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Social Media

Google’s Gears

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Like the rest of the world, I’ve been exploring the tutorial and examples for the new Google Gears. I was particularly caught by the addition of SQLite for offline storage–I never imagined a day installing a relational database on your client’s machine via the browser on the fly. It’s remarkably easy […]