Tag Archives: Web applications

Announcing Tonido Plug - small, low power, low cost Home Server

CodeLathe is proud to announce the launch of Tonido Plug - small, low power, low cost home server for public . Tonido  Plug will be available for pre-order shortly at Tonido Plug’s website.
What is Tonido Plug?
Tonido Plug is a small form factor computer (size of a power adapter)  based on a powerful 1.2 GHz Sheeva [...]

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Impractical not to rely on servers? Nah!

I was recently reading Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg, which describes the Chandler project; which started out as a PIM and an Microsoft Outlook alternative that could share information between users directly via peer-to-peer without intermediary servers (and Exchange Servers).
Here’s a quote from the book about OSAF rethinking their original plans for Chandler to [...]

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Look there is a Web App. Look again and it is gone.

The central theme and the reason for existence for Tonido is the fact that relying completely on Web Applications is fraught with danger. Here’s one more evidence. Google has decided to shutter several of their Web Apps. The apps include Google Video, Jaiku, Mashup Editor, Dodgeball. Development will also stop on Google Notebook. While I [...]

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The Future of Software Applications

That is really the million dollar question everyone wants the answer to. Being at the right location at the right time pays off immensely especially if you are in the start-up business.
Some History
To make sense of the direction that software is going, one needs to study the evolution of computing. Evolution in living organisms [...]

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