Microsoft on ‘Web Innovation’ in December this year.

Lately, Microsoft is really trying hard to make an impact in web 2.0 era. After developing a multimedia suite that is expression suite it is now applying thoughts on how web 2.0 will be from Microsoft’s prospective.

After the International web 2.0 conference in November this year, Web Innovation 2007 conference will be the stage for the designer, developers, Managers, Specialists, Entrepreneurs to know about web 2.0 and business around it. It will be on 18-19 December 2007 at Bangalore, India.

There are two tracks for the conference, Business Track and Technology Track. Get the details from their site link http://www.webinnovation.in. Off course Microsoft not included Google in the Web 2.0 conference, however Yahoo!, AOL and Adobe having a place in it!(?) You can go to the site and register yourself for the event.

For the promotion of the event Web Innovation Designer Contest 2007 is there. Contest is open to all types of Professionals as well as Students and with no participation fees being charged. But they want their participants to use their Expression suite and Silverlite as applications to make UI and animations in the contest.

Does adobe have an eye on Fauxto?

Web applications are applications which are accessed via web using internet or intranet. The main advantage of web application is ability to maintain and update without installation on client machine.

As web 2.0 progresses, RIA that is Rich Internet Applications started popping up on web, which has features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. People started working on flash based applications, and flex technology emerged. As flex was setting up on the web Ajax based applications with no proprietary like flex entered in. And it started a new era for webapps. Techies started comparing both Ajax and Flex. We will come to know which will sustain down the line.

As of now both flex and ajax based applications are used in web 2.0. Google’s gmail, Google suggest, Google maps and many services are Ajax based. However, Google’s chat gadget, Yahoo’s online chat, online streaming media like YouTube are using flex/flash technologies.

Office applications started online and spread to wide by the initiative by Google doc, spreadsheet and presentation. Now photo editing applications are also started entry in this new web. Check out these online photos editing applications comparison.

Apart from these, one application which really dragged my attention is flex based online photoshop, having very basic tools to play with image yet. Fauxto providing Canvas, Toolbar, Image info, Color info, Layer info with few Filters and Zoom in/out facility. Image crop, transform, editing is possible in it.

Adobe must be waiting for mature development in Fauxto, probably this will be their next acquisition after Buzzword.

There is a big fight ahead

Improvement in Communication between people, Improvement in Communication between separate software applications & Improvement in Web interfaces are major hit in web 2.0.

Many social networking sites Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube etc are connecting people worldwide. Web standards like XML, RSS etc for describing and accessing data, using which online applications are exchanging data within themselves. High use of single sign-in with wide range of online application, services as Google, Yahoo! providing. Real-time responsive applications using Ajax, Flex technologies are popping-up only in one browser window.

Now, when Google, Yahoo & Microsoft are having really tough competition these days among them, Adobe jumped into with acquiring Buzzword, a web-based word processor, a Flex-based RIA that represents the future of online collaboration. Before, adobe also announced Adobe AIR, Its Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a cross-OS runtime environment for building Rich Internet Applications, using Flash, Flex, HTML and Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.

There is a big fight ahead.