"Thanks to an excellent technology stack and a standards-based design, we were able to achieve TheKBase Web Alpha in record time," said Daniel Rosenstark, CEO and Technology Evangelist for Confusionists, Inc. "TheKBase Web is up and running, and we're happy with the initial feedback. But we need more testers: we're building this system for millions of users, so for issues of scalability the 150,000+ users we have are not enough."
Invitations to TheKBase Web Alpha are available by sending an email to alpha-invitation at thekbase.com with the subject, "Sign me up!" The Alpha period is expected to last until mid-September.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
TheKBase Desktop 2.12 Released
TheKBase Desktop reaches new levels of maturity and "feature-richness" with with release 2.1.2.
2.1.0 brought several interesting and new ideas, including saved searches. After you perform a search -- even months later, when the contents of your kbase have changed radically -- you can repeat a search by right clicking on the search node and selecting "repeat search."
2.1.2 brings 128-bit AES file encryption (password protection) and several other small changes (all detailed in the downloadable package).
At the same time, a new TheKBase Mobile version is available (2.1.0), which includes support for password-protection and maintains full compatibility with the Desktop version.
See www.thekbase.com for more details.
2.1.0 brought several interesting and new ideas, including saved searches. After you perform a search -- even months later, when the contents of your kbase have changed radically -- you can repeat a search by right clicking on the search node and selecting "repeat search."
2.1.2 brings 128-bit AES file encryption (password protection) and several other small changes (all detailed in the downloadable package).
At the same time, a new TheKBase Mobile version is available (2.1.0), which includes support for password-protection and maintains full compatibility with the Desktop version.
See www.thekbase.com for more details.
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Dojo and JSON Out, Flex In
In a surprising turn that some analysts are calling "market-setting," Confusionists, Inc. announced that it will be minimizing its use of Javascript and its chosen toolkits, Dojo (and Jayrock for JSON). Aside from a cryptic press release which said simply, "Dojo and JSON out, Flex and Web Services in. Alpha soon." Confusionists made no further public comments. Tony Villa, a market analyst at Microtrends, explains the move, "I think there's a lot of frustration at Confusionists over the original choice of Javascript-based technologies. The treasure-hunt like experience of using Dojo has been a big time-wasting exercise for many companies. Javascript is obviously a legacy accident. Flex is totally the opposite: it's probably the best UI toolkit out there, on or off the Web."
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