Anthony Franco

At the surface, Microsoft’s Bing may look like Google, but once you dig in a bit you notice a lot of nice little enhancements that make a huge diference. I’ve only been using Bing for the last 2 hours and I’ve already decided it is my new favorite search engine. The search results look very similar [...] ... (more)

Could Apple Enter the Cloud Computing Market?

This is total speculation, but I believe it would be very possible for Apple to enter the cloud computing space. A recent article in the Charlotte Observer (found via a mac rumors article) is claiming they are offering Apple a huge tax break to set up a billion dollar server farm in North Carolina. Apple has an interesting competitive advantage here. They have loads of cash in reserve ($2... (more)

The iPhone is not an Advertising Platform!

About 4 months ago I wrote a post about the difficulty differentiating with an iPhone application. I forecasted 3 billion downloads and 100,000 applications by the middle of this year - and my calculations are proving accurate with the app store reaching 25,000 apps and 1 billion downloads earlier this year.   Since that post, we’ve been a part [...] ... (more)

AJAXWorld Keynote Speaker on the Risks and Rewards of RIAs

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— es... (more)

Hot Topic - Recession Proofing

Earlier today I posted about someone posting about somebody else’s post on jobs that are “recession proof” ( gotta love the internets :) That post spawned a request from Jeremy Geelan over at Sys-Con to give my two cents on yet another “recession” related technology topic: 10 Tips for Riding Out the Recession as a Software [...] ... (more)