tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331274572011-06-07T23:29:43.821-07:00The web just got a lot more interesting...John M Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009881835835125595noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33127457.post-70341350455545208852008-01-15T10:17:00.000-08:002008-01-15T10:27:09.471-08:00

ZCubes is the first comprehensive omni-functional platform. CALCI makes it fascinatingly big.Why?Because spreadsheets drive the world. And spreadsheets use technology that is almost 25 years old.CALCI changes everything. It takes over the world of calculations and puts it into the most powerful authoring medium ever - the web.The ocean of information called "the web" has never been so powerful.

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Structured programming shifted to Object-Oriented Programming in the 90's. Enterprises throughout the world adopt Object-Oriented technology for all their serious applications.Over the last 20 years, waterfall model of development has slowly transformed into a more prototype-oriented agile model. Though most folks adopt all the technically "correct" methodologies and alphabet-soups, cost of

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Everyone craves for the ability to express - smoothly and powerfully. When you have to type at 19 words per minute (average for composition according to Karat, et al) and think at 100 words per minute - expression suffers. And no amount of computing power is going to change that.A picture is worth a thousand words.The answer is clear. The ability to manipulate text is not sufficient.It is the

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The philosophy of ZCubes is not just openness, but also seamlessness. Just like in your life which is continuous and free, so should your work be. Seamless, continous, and unfettered.Welcome to Web 3.0 where you are not just a user or a click or a unique count - but a citizen - a valued citizen of the digital community.Welcome to ZCubes 3.0. We have something amazing coming up. This will blow

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Information should not be at the mercy of the illiterate, ill-informed, ill-mannered, uninformed, under-informed, unwilling-to-be-informed, and those who control such entities. The openness with which information can be accessed should be reflected in the breadth and depth of information. Otherwise, skewed information will be reflected as the Bible - and this can be seen in so many communities

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The omni-functional ZCubes platform allows users create unlimited webpages called experiences by integrating different types of content including websites, media, RSS feeds, games, gadgets, painting, handwriting, text and much more. This post discusses the capabilities of the platform to add Text and some of the new exciting features that have been added to add richer text.ZCubes contains a fully

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One of the recent features of the ZCubes website is the Showcase. The showcase displays thumbnails of all the latest public experiences published by the ZCubes user community. It presents a great platform for "Cubesters" to truly express themselves by showcasing their creativity and interests.Users browsing the showcase can search for experiences by name or tag. In addition, users can rate

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Social Networking is one of the key aspects of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Sites like MySpace and Friendster have become incredibly popular with millions of users able to obtain a web presence fairly easily. However, these sites come with a lot of restrictions and limitations for the user to express themselves in the social network. They typically have templates that are used by the community users

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The ZCubes team (including CEO Joseph Pally) is at the big Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (Booth 212) this week. The team is really excited to be there and hope to showcase the ZCubes platform to the numerous visitors. If you're planning to visit the expo, please take a moment to visit with us. We'd love to demo and discuss the features of the ZCubes platform with you. Another reason to be really

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As mentioned in a previous post, ZBrowser is one of the most powerful and innovative tools of the ZCubes platform. The ZBrowser is a built-in fully functional browser with shortcuts to a number of sites for shopping, travel, news and a lot more. The ZBrowser thus brings to life a unique "Browser-in-a-Browser" concept. The ZBrowser can even be made transparent to see the content behind it in the

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The ZCubes platform represents a paradigm shift in the overall concept of internet browsing and what it means to web surfers. One of the most innovative features of the ZCubes platform is the ZBrowser. The tool provides a number of features and functions that are intended to make browsing the web more efficient and useful for web users. This post talks about the ZCubes philosophy on

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One of the most powerful tools in the ZCubes platform is ZPaint. It provides a wide variety of tools to draw/paint/sketch directly inside the browser. The platform has an extensive menu of shapes and curves. The ZPaint utility is based on the vector-based graphics technology (VML-Vector Markup Language) that is natively supported by Internet Explorer (support for SVG compatible in Firefox is

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David Wilkinson at the excellent group blog Profy.com recently posted a nice review of ZCubes. Thanks, David!Without intentionally doing so, David highlights one of the major problems we face in the ongoing development of ZCubes. The platform itself is so flexible and the technology behind it so powerful that it is often quite difficult not only to explain but to prioritize which functionality to

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ZCubes is very pleased to announce a partnership with YubNub, the popular site that allows users to browse the web using command-line entries (e.g. "am mark twain" for an Amazon search on "mark twain"). Read YubNub creator Jon Aquino's blog post about the background of YubNub here. Now, ZCubes users can enter any YubNub command-line into the ZCubes URL bar to see the results in the ZBrowser. This

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Why should webpages be just text and images? Is handwriting not the most natural way to communicate?ZCubes gives you handwriting into the ZSpace (background) or inside any ZCube - supported with amazing picture drawing capability. What is the big deal with it?1. No font requirement.2. Instant natural expression.3. Editable by the end user! Let the world create!4. Write your stuff, and doodle or

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Here is an easter-egg for you in ZCubes. Drag-Drop any picture from Google Image Search into ZSpace (press Alt-Key while dropping the picture), and it will become the page/ZSpace background. Similarly, you can Alt+Drag-Drop pictures into a ZCube to make it its background. If you drop it into an object within a painting, the picture will go inside the drawn object.ZCubes also has the Inlay concept

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Since the birth of web-browsers in the 90's, "ideal portal" creation have been the holy-grail ofthe net-software designers. Let us ask ourselves a few questions:(1) What makes an ideal portal? Does it exist?(2) Why do the giants of the industry spend millions of dollars trying to create portals to be the start pages for the common web users?(3) Will customization make portals work better?Let us

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ZBrowser is a unique aspect of ZCubes that beats every existing browser in terms of functionality. The core idea is that of user driven URL manipulation. Apart from the Drag-Drop & Copy/Paste simplicity of ZCubes to handle internet content and your resulting experiences, ZBrowser also provides you exceptional capability to handle URL patterns. What does that mean?For example, say, you found a

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Great News! ZCubes is fully compatible (with full functionality) with Firefox using the IE Tab Add-on. Please visit http://home.zcubes.com/faq.htm#firefox for more information.We are working on a pure Firefox version with more advanced features customized for Firefox. Thank you so much for your patience!Enjoy the new world of "super applications" at ZCubes!

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Integration is key. ZCubes is the clay with which you mould your experiences. It does not matter if it is your browsing experiences, image experiences, audio experiences, video experiences, etc. When you want to express and idea, why have to choose 4 applications to achieve what you want? Just make one choice of ZCubes!You can create complete webpages in ZCubes inless than a minute! Drag-Drop all

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We invite you to use the ZCubes platform and its wide range of features and flexibility to create amazing personalized greetings for your loved ones this holiday season. Unleash your creativity to combine Pictures/Videos/Paint and much more, and impress your friends and family with rich customized cards.The Greeting Cards feature combines the ZPaint, Drag-Drop Images & Videos, Upload Functions,

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"Simplicity is the key."Browser is the simplest interface. Click/Drag-Drop/Copy-Paste. Even kids understand the browser interface.There is only one model in ZCubes. ZCube is your Document Creator. Your Slide Presenter. Your Drawing. Your Games Arcade. Your News reader. Your browser.Store and be done. Open it and View.Just like a paper and pencil. As simple and flexible.ZCubes is far simpler than

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ZCubes is not about desktop.com or Internet OS's. It is about continuous experiences.In today's world, when a user wants to present information, he/she currently need to make a series of choices.1. For Browsing: Choose IE/Firefox. Start one or the other. Then worry about the incompatibilities.2. For Editing: User needs to choose Word/ Powerpoint/ Visio/etc. depending on the audience, and style of

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The recent release of the ZCubes platform (still in Beta) has new icons for the main toolbar at the top as well as the Paint toolbar. The idea is to make the icons more fun and attractive for users.

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The Web 2.0 Summit is currently underway in San Francisco. According to their website, the summit "...focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the web as a platform...". Here at ZCubes, that is a big part of the concept behind the product. Since I was unable to register for the event, I have been following Richard MacManus' Read/WriteWeb blog for information about the

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Welcome to ZCubes. As you can probably already tell, we do things a little differently around here. And we give you, the user, the ability to do the same.ZCubes is many things. A browser, a graphics design application, a media provision platform, a social networking forum, and much, much more. In a nutshell, though, it is an entirely new way for people to experience the Internet. Are we biting

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Imagine a net with n dimensions. Not just 1, 2 or 3. But n. Yes, that includes time.It is possible.It is clear that the face of the Internet is quite static, with minor dynamics introduced by primitive technologies like AJAX. Truly flexible Internet is created when you enter n dimensions of bit matter, organized by the whims and fancies of the user - not the creator. Again, it is possible. Watch

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