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[Archive | Audio | Video | Popular Tags]With the explosion of Adobe AIR apps hitting the streets these days, from corporate applications to small single developer applications, it's a wonder to me how a lot of these applications forget about some of the most important aspects of an application. One being, system tray or dock icons. Lets explore the importance of these icons, and how to implement them in your own application.
Read more.Tim O'Reilly launched a new column today, O'Reilly Insights, on Forbes' New Breakthroughs section. Breakthroughs focuses on the point where science and technology meet to generate groundbreaking new ideas. And in Tim's debut column, Where Real Innovation Happens, he argues that the "great waves of creative destruction that have reinvented Silicon Valley didn't start there." Instead revolutionary innovation happened around the world and outside of institutions, Tim says. "Rather they started with interesting problems and people who wanted to solve them, exercising technology to its fullest because exploring new ideas was fun." So where's the alpha-geek innovation happening today? Tim says look for where the passion is. Read more.
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