Anthony Franco's Blog
On March 20 at AJAXWorld 2008 East, Anthony Franco, UX & UI Expert, President
of Effective User Interface will be keynoting on RIA Adoption in 2008 –
Risks, Rewards, Challenges and Opportunities.
Last year, the overall demand for RIAs outpaced the qualified supply chain.
This trend will continue in 2008. While last year brought unprecedented
growth in RIA adoption— especially by Fortune 500 companies—RIA adoption
in 2008 brings a new onslaught of risks, rewards, challenges, and
opportunities for companies of all sizes.
This year, companies facing both job growth and decline will need to continue
to leverage innovative, usable RIAs to hone their competitive edge to outpace
their competition and improve core business practices with fast, reliable,
productivity-enhancing internal and external tools. However, building and
deploying effective RIAs is... (more)
I just read an old MacWorld article from Guy Kawasaki, comparing his old 1993
Quadra 800 to an F-15 Eagle fighter… he listed the specs of his Quadra:
33mhz 8megs ram 1gig hd $6399 ($9074 in today’s dollars) I thought it would
be fun to see what I could buy today from Apple for the same amount. I looked
at [...]
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RIAs Can Provide Complex Functionality on the Desktop Adobe AIR, Curl, Google
Gears and Mozilla Prism all offer off-line desktop like functionality
combined with RIA technology. Do these technologies represent a new kind of
client platform?
http://www.uiresourcecenter.com/rich-internet-applications/links.html?s=2_3
Removing the Noise: How to eliminate unnecessary distractions from
projects – The EffectiveUI Project Management Team The EffectiveUI team of
project managers compiled [...]
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Someone needed to say it - Patents are a joke - companies are waging wars
against one another over meaningless software patents. I heard last week
(have not confirmed it) that IBM makes $1 Billion (thats with a “B”) a
year in licensing their patents to other companies … I know what you are
saying, 1 [...]
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Over the last four years, I have been incredibly fortunate to watch our
company grow from Andy, Drew, and myself to more than 100 people. It’s been
a tough but exciting road… “bootstrapping” has had its challenges for
sure. During our crazy growth, we have always left our CEO position open,
always knowing someday we [...]
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Anthony Franco is President of EffectiveUI, in which role he has the unique opportunity to listen to how companies like eBay, Ford, Random House, Viacom, GE, Dow Jones, and NBC think about the Internet & desktop software, and how innovative thinking can completely change the way they do business. He blogs at http://anthonyfranco.wordpress.com.
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