Apple Announcement
As we reach the middle of the week - and the northeast swelters, we continue looking at examples on the web of potential mash-up ideas and trends. While our focus is on Enterprise mash-ups - Apple has created quite a stir over the last few weeks - first at the developers conference in June with the notion of Web Widgets that could be created on the dashboard of OS-X Leopard when it ships in October, and now by offering those same Web Widgets for use in iWeb.
For a detailed view into Widgets look at Steve Jobs Apple WWDC video WWDC link here - widgets are part of the dashboard feature towards the end of the Leopard feature review.
It is worth looking at the Apple product announcements - because these announcements will increase the creation of both the underlying web widget services and the creation of more and more complex and useful mash-ups - created by virtually anyone. This is bound to increase the tools and understanding for the use of this technology much the same way as he use of HTML back in the 1990's and email earlier in the 90's influences the deployment of new corporate infrastructure - see last Monday's blog.
The Web 2.0 Apple experience begins with the improvements to the Apple .Mac on-line service. These improvements create a collaborative environment for photo and movie sharing around the theme of events - like a little league game in which all of the parents contribute their photos into a community mash-up. The same could occur in a semi-private environment of a family reunion in which all members of the family share their photos and they are mashed into one gallery.
There are very interesting improvements to the iMovie and iPhoto products to help deal with this new power - but they are outside of our scope - they are fun to consider though - check them out.
The improvement dead smack in the middle of mash-ups is in the iWeb product - which allows an ever increasing number of website evergreen feeds to be put into browser window. This technology could go along way to creating the home mash-up idea in last Friday's blog entry. These feeds can be cliped into iWeb and displayed in mash-up form. And it can be posted on-line to a website or to .Mac.
Fred
For a detailed view into Widgets look at Steve Jobs Apple WWDC video WWDC link here - widgets are part of the dashboard feature towards the end of the Leopard feature review.
It is worth looking at the Apple product announcements - because these announcements will increase the creation of both the underlying web widget services and the creation of more and more complex and useful mash-ups - created by virtually anyone. This is bound to increase the tools and understanding for the use of this technology much the same way as he use of HTML back in the 1990's and email earlier in the 90's influences the deployment of new corporate infrastructure - see last Monday's blog.
The Web 2.0 Apple experience begins with the improvements to the Apple .Mac on-line service. These improvements create a collaborative environment for photo and movie sharing around the theme of events - like a little league game in which all of the parents contribute their photos into a community mash-up. The same could occur in a semi-private environment of a family reunion in which all members of the family share their photos and they are mashed into one gallery.
There are very interesting improvements to the iMovie and iPhoto products to help deal with this new power - but they are outside of our scope - they are fun to consider though - check them out.
The improvement dead smack in the middle of mash-ups is in the iWeb product - which allows an ever increasing number of website evergreen feeds to be put into browser window. This technology could go along way to creating the home mash-up idea in last Friday's blog entry. These feeds can be cliped into iWeb and displayed in mash-up form. And it can be posted on-line to a website or to .Mac.
Fred
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