Triumphs Personified

Today, post the announcement of 'Google Wave Extensions' over  here , something made me realize that probably this may be a good news for the eLearning folks. Well, I know this was bound to happen one day but probably this is just the beginning. Google Wave probably may have more surprises for us.  Integration of Flash SWF OR HTML pages with Wave would have probably been on the Google's agenda but till date Wave was missing all the action without the Flash support. The yes/no gadget was the only known way of easily integrating an activity on Wave but post today's announcement of the iFrame extension, watch out for more surprises. I was able to integrate a Flash movie right inside my Wave. Technically this is probably what the eLearning folks were waiting for. Flash is still not everything, there is more. But since they have support for HTML, this can pretty much be used to embed your whole course right inside your Wave where you can add your audience/s...

Follow this link and roll on the floor... This video shows how to install SilverLight on your machine.. the only problem I see is that, to view this video you need to have silverlight already installed on your machine... I just wonder how anyone can think so creatively... Ok. This is what you need to install silverlight. Lets still keep a watch on this year old technology that probably was not able to prove its metal. I guess, big authoring tool players will shortly come out with new authoring tools for people to widely make use of this technology and only then will this technology flourish. Until then lets keep our fingers crossed... and by the way, by now everyone probably just knows what to fall on, if Adobe gets naughty about their Flash Player.

Yesterday I was chatting with Sarah, who happens to be my so called chat buddy from the States. While we were just in between of a breezy chat this gal went up like... "Waaaaaw, check it out mate! This is so kewwl! Look how amazing this page looks, its got this mouse over effect when I roll my mouse over these flowers...its simply amzinnn, must be Web 2.0 AJAX, right? Hello! There is definitely some confusion about Ajax, and in particular Web2.0. What you are seeing right now through Ajax is what the Flash guys were probably doing back during the world war. As a Technical Lead, yes I have fought AJAX based Web2.0 as any new dumb buzzword that comes around. I have to admit, there is definitely something in Web2.0. However, in my opinion, it’s got nothing to do with the technology as such. The effect that people like Sarah have been admiring is just a mere UI magic with the help of JS, and this certainly has been around for a long time and yet now it looks like people are realizing ...