We all are now leaving behind the rock-bottom economy, recession, shrinking opportunities and challenging times discussion and focusing on what’s next?
Social media has been on the top of the list and certainly has become a mandatory tool for individuals and businesses. The beauty is, it is all about giving and the returns will find their way to you. 15 years ago, people were trying to figure out what is a website and how and why should they need to have one. Then it became a necessity, whether right or wrong, everyone felt they have to have a website, and now everyone has mastered in their web presence. With social media, all understand that they have to participate in social media, and are trying to figure out how and why. Social media is here to stay and will remain as the integral part of future trends.
iPhone, Blackberry and mobile phone are well accepted “trends” and they have made our lives convenient and easy. Some of the iPhone and mobile applications are matured and some are in incubation state.
Touch screen is a fascinating and growing trend. We are not too far from the fact that every computer, device and communication tool will have the touch capability. Every time I check-in using the self check in kiosk at the airport or self check-out in a grocery store, I thank the technology. It saves time and makes it a perfect Fast, Friendly and in-control experience.
Voice recognition, even better! This trend will have a tremendous demand and excellent practical usage. Currently, there is very limited application of this technology.
Cloud computing, open source technologies, SaaS and rich UI applications are already matured trends
and well accepted by all.
Being a custom software developer, we are compelled to keep up with the technology and update our skills based on the trends. With last 2 years of development on Ruby on Rails, PHP, J2EE, Flex, Flash, AJAX, JQuery, YUI and a long list of many open source platforms and tools, now we are developing desktop applications, iPhone and blackberry applications. Keeping up with the trends!
Recently we developed a desktop application ‘SSGConnect’, in Beta now, which helps communicate with twitter. This application has been developed using Adobe AIR technology.
Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application. With the current trend, these applications are very popular. Mostly because they are very simple to install and work on all platforms like Windows, Linux and Mac OS! Many ‘LAN only’ applications can be desktop applications; they really don’t need to be web applications.
You can download SSGConnect at www.smartsourcingglobal.com\downloads.html