Comments on: There’s an app for that

By: Joseph Hoetzl

Joseph Hoetzl — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:25:55 +0000

@Tom – AIR is a runtime – http://www.adobe.com/products/air/ – AJAX, Flash and Flex

Two very recent examples, Flippr and Panda Bear – both for Quickr stuff, from SNAPPS, use it. As do a number of Twitter clients – e.g. Tweetdeck

By: John Rowland

John Rowland — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:17:38 +0000

@Tom & @Ed – I agree with Tom about apps vs. widgets. In addition, to the average business user, “widget” sounds more like applet or gadget that something to handle business processes.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:56:19 +0000

@Ed… I love the connection. But I think it would take me a lot longer to write a widget than a Notes app. Maybe I just need some practice with the Standard client.

@Joseph… I’m unfamiliar with AIR. Is that a specific framework or does it run through Adobe’s flash?

By: Joseph Hoetzl

Joseph Hoetzl — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:16:46 +0000

About deployment! Send a db…err…app link and it is installed! As easy as Adobe AIR apps – once you have the framework…

And security, and replication, and…yeah, those small utilitarian apps like phone number/extension lookups already get published as widgets to my users.

By: Ed Brill

Ed Brill — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:06:59 +0000

You might like the line in today’s press release about the TripIt and LinkedIn integration: “Whatever Lotus customers need, there’s a widget for that.”

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28010.wss

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:55:14 +0000

Brilliant! This small appplication mantra should be pushed hard and fast by IBM, but of course, they won’t. They don’t know how…