Category Archives: SaaS

• Mashup of News and Blogs

  Posted on January 4, 2008 by Ben S. in Browser Tech, JavaScript, SaaS, Startup Journal

  For the new year I took a few hours and put together a test Mashup of a few public APIs. The application simply lets you see the latest news and what the blogosphere has to say about it. Again this was done in a short amount of time and is still very rough – and [...]

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• Are Mashups worth anything?

  Posted on December 26, 2007 by Ben S. in Browser Tech, Business, SaaS, Startup Journal, Web Design

  In ’07 we saw lot of movement to make the web a programmable environment. Most all popular consumer websites now have APIs and there has been a proliferation of “Mashup” applications like Yahoo! Pipes, MS Popfly, and Google Mashup Editor. Are these XML services only for the weekend amusement of geeks that are uninspired by [...]

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• What a great idea!

  Posted on October 30, 2007 by Ben S. in SaaS, Web Design

  I just came across the coolest idea for a web service I’ve seen in a long time. recaptcha.net is a free service to put CAPTCHA spam protection on your website. What’s so cool about that you might ask? Well the way the service can block spam bots from flooding your website with spam content is [...]

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• Hibernate Search

  Posted on September 24, 2007 by Ben S. in Java, Projects, SaaS

  This sounds like a great way to seamlessly integrate a database model with full text search. Based on Apache Lucene, Hibernate Search focuses on ease of use and ease of configuration, lowering the barrier to entry of Lucene and its integration with a domain model. Seamless integration with the Hibernate and Java Persistence query model: [...]

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• Tibco GI 3.2 will be Open Source

  Posted on October 3, 2006 by Ben S. in Browser Tech, JavaScript, SaaS, Web Design

  Wow, exciting news in my inbox today! The Tibco GI Ajax framework is going Open Source in the next release! So far this has to be the most full featured DHTML Framework and IDE out there. We have used it in house for quite a while and I can only say good things about it. [...]

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• Another todo list app

  Posted on June 22, 2006 by Ben S. in Projects, SaaS

  Toodled is another web-based to-do list. You can organize your tasks into different folders or projects. For example, you could have a folder for work related tasks, one for home projects and another for your hobby. You can have unlimited tasks and unlimited folders. You can easily share your to-do lists with coworkers, friends, family [...]

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• Create your own Wiki

  Posted on June 19, 2006 by Ben S. in Business, SaaS

  WetPaint.com looks like a well done Wiki service that lets you customize the interface and get up and running in minutes. The heart of the Wetpaint advantage is its ability to allow anyone — especially those without technical skill — to create and contribute to websites written for and by those who share a passion [...]

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• Ajax Notetaker

  Posted on May 31, 2006 by Ben S. in KeepTabs, SaaS, Web Design

  Wridea.com has a pretty interface and makes nice use of Ajax to allow users to quickly just down ideas. I do think the interface for note taking needs to be much more more intuitive and easy for best usability. Never forget your ideas again. Save it when you have it. Create categories and organize your [...]

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• Ray Ozzie pushing Microsoft to fully embrace the Web

  Posted on May 10, 2006 by Ben S. in Business, SaaS

  Ray Ozzie talks about Microsoft’s upcoming emphasis on combining it’s products with associated internet services… The Net has finally gotten pervasive enough that you can design software that assumes the presence of services on the back end. And I think, as we go from release to release of different products, you’re going to see companion [...]

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• WS-* vs the REST

  Posted on May 2, 2006 by Ben S. in Java, SaaS, Sucks

  Tim Anderson talks about the complexity of SOAP vs. more simple XML based APIs – like Amazons… The evolution of the programmable web continues apace, but there’s intense debate over what the internet’s API should look like. Five years ago it looked as if SOAP was the answer, a W3C standard for exchanging data with [...]

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