Monday, April 28, 2008

Do you care for Web2.0?

I understand that am little delayed in posting an entry on Web2.0, reason being that am doing middleware work mostly (Ah! the SOA stuff, more on this in another post) and it has been almost an year and half that I coded something on servlets/JSP/Struts/JSF, blah blah. OK, coming to the point ...

Recently, one of my friends proudly gave a demo of the application he has been working on for an year. Though the application met the requirements defined by the business people, there was something that was missing in the app. My friend's team received unsatisfactory comments from the client. When probed deeper the team found no deviations from the requirements but the users are not that happy using the product. Apparantly, the system was not designed in a user-centric manner [Usability is different from User-Centric Design!!]. It seems someone suggested my friend to change the colors and add some funky javascript to appease the eye (they started advertising that they used Web2.0!!!). All that jazz helped initially but died down very soon.

Well, Web2.0 is NOT adding some animations and jazzy javascript, it is much more than that. Do we really know what Web2.0 is intended for? Frankly, I'm not fully aware. I came across some links that helped me understand Web2.0, so instead me duplicating the content here, go there and read upon. Make sure to watch the content on the "Related Slidehshows" tab

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Back in office

I'm back in office after a 20 day vacation and catching up on the happenings. Lot of things seem to have happened. The reason for the long silence and no blog entries is that I got married to Madhuri on March 09. The snaps will be posted soon on the picasa. Although, I lost my most prized ship..BACHELORSHIP, am enjoying the married life and getting used to make compromises..hehe.