R2Integrated

By Chris Chodnicki on 6/26/2008 3:56 PM

Not certain if it was the great lunch or the topic but the Digital Publishing Conference presentation was very well attended by over half the participants of the entire conference.  Judging by the feedback after the conference it was the topic that had people excited. Less than 10% of the audience knew about RIA and 5% were actually using the technology. 

During the presentation we threw out the old school PowerPoint method and introduced a Flex based RIA that gives the History, What is RIA, Uses and Considerations. Think of it as RIA 101.  Click here to view and play the presentation!

Read More »

By Chris Chodnicki on 6/23/2008 9:27 AM

I’ll be speaking at the DPA Conference Wednesday, June 25^th in New York City. The topic is Rich Internet Applications (RIAs): Web Tools for Tomorrow's Richer, More Social Sites- What they are, how they work, and why you need them. We have killer examples and breakout the RIA world today and how it can be used for organizations. I’ll post the presentation after the show.

Read More »

By Kevin Schreiner on 6/14/2008 2:26 PM

As any home owner who has lived in a house for any period of time, I just wrapped up another session of ant eradication from my property. Now, I have no doubts that this round, just as any other in the past, will be an utter failure. A futile attempt at overcoming the pest and annoyance of these tiny creatures. so, you may wonder - what does this have to do with technology? Nothing, except for a complete understanding of the emphasis behind the new technologies we find ourselves using today in the world of the Internet.

Until recently the real drive for online content was to provide information on the web that users will find and consume in a manner that the advertisers dictated. All as a means to direct consumers towards one specific product or another. This content was never truly there to help educate, or help progress the general public forwards, but just a means to an end. That end being a sale.

Today we have entered i ... Read More »

By Page Sands on 6/13/2008 9:55 AM

I recently attended the Future of the Internet conference at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. I wanted to share a couple thoughts about how the conference used social software to keep everyone organized and connected.

I like how the Berkman Center provided conference attendees with a directory of social tools and related tags that we could use to connect with one another.  After the sessions h ... Read More »

By Chris Chodnicki on 6/9/2008 11:11 AM

RIA’s have been popping regularly since the beginning of the year on more and more sites.  I have found that most RIA segment into the following categories: Rich Media, Product Selection, Visual Search, Widget Builders and Forms & Data Visualizers.  Since the release of Silverlight 2.0 (BETA) and Adobe Flex 3.0, designers and engineers have the professional grade tools and adoption of the technology.  The results are the increase in creative practical use of RIA .

Read More »