Just a little Cooqy

Cooqy is developed with OpenLaszlo, a wonderful open-source tool for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s). OpenLaszlo v3.3.1 has proven to be a very stable and productive tool. I consider it to be the finest development tool I have used in my 20+ years of software development.
OpenLaszlo has truly made software development fun for […]

This article posted over at R/WW caught my attention. Actually, this is something I’ve been pondering since earlier this year when I added certain social features in Cooqy: Is their really anything such as “Social Shopping”?
If you define “Social Shopping” in the context of other social websites like MySpace, then there would need […]

I’ve only been blogging a couple of weeks now, but I am already a huge fan of MyBlogLog. You could say that I started blogging only after observing the MyBlogLog widget on TechCrunch. Blogging in isolation is rather pointless. MyBlogLog’s “reader widget” makes you feel you are not blogging alone, by providing […]

I just read a report that eBay has closed their China website, finally throwing in the towel and admitting defeat in what will surely become the world’s largest Internet market. Is this my 2007 Prediction #3 starting to come true?
Anyway you slice it, this is very bad news for eBay and Meg. You […]

Being a rampant piano-player and former synthesizer junkie back in the 80’s, I love the power of sound. Sound effects are frequently embedded within applications, like the familiar Windows startup theme, or the jingle of a new e-mail arrival. Used properly, sound effects can enhance the efficiency of using a computer, similar to […]

eBay Sellers have unexpectedly had the rug pulled out from under them by Slide last week, who quietly axed their eBay support.
According to this eBay seller who was using Slide to advertise inventory, Slide “doesn’t have the resources to maintain the eBay tool as a high quality product.” (This particular seller has made the […]

With 2007 just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to peer ahead and see what the new year may have in store for the Internet. To make it even more fun, I will express each prediction as a quatrain, too.
In no particular order, here are my five predictions for the Internet […]

Disruptive technologies experience a predictable pattern of an initial frothy boom, followed by a hard crash, then a long, gradual, sustained period of build-out. A good article discussing this pattern as it has related to historically disruptive innovations can be found here.
The “E-commerce 2.0″ moniker may be a bit long in the tooth, but […]

The Web 1.0 dot-com boom of the 90’s saw many smart programmers and engineers making other people very rich. Sure, developers frequently had stock options as a part of their compensation packages, but the real money was made at the top by forked-tongued business people who frequently never knew how to operate a computer, […]

My philosophy with Cooqy has always been to deliver functionality as quickly as possible. This usually means that software updates are streamed into production throughout the day, even as users are on the system. OpenLaszlo has the ability to compile code changes on the fly, which makes production software updates a snap. […]