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Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart
Ryan Stewart holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is now a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst. After graduating from Penn, he spent two years developing applications for the Wharton School and pushing the idea of the web as a platform for learning. Ryan now lives in Seattle with his wife and works as a developer for WorldClass Strategy while running his own consulting company, helping clients build and architect Rich Internet Applications.

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The technology and business implications of the next generation of software, rich Internet applications.

  • So long and thanks for all the fish

    By Ryan Stewart | March 30, 2009, 7:39pm PDT

    This will be my last post on ZDNet. Blogging here has been one of the most fun things I’ve been able to do in my career. In fact, basically everything started here. Almost all of the various...

  • RIA technologies and the downturn

    By Ryan Stewart | March 5, 2009, 5:33pm PST

    The news is a pretty depressing place right now but there was a small article in the Economist about how the Fashion industry is responding to the downturn that caught my eye. Towards the end of...

  • The iPhone conference cometh: 360|iDev March 2-4

    By Ryan Stewart | February 11, 2009, 8:38am PST

    One of my favorite RIA events is 360|Flex. The organizers, Tom Ortega, and John Wilker, do a great job of getting the community excited and putting on an event with great technical content...

  • The mulitouch future of RIAs

    By Ryan Stewart | February 9, 2009, 5:52am PST

    I’ve been really enjoying Richard Monson-Haefel’s blog on multi touch lately. Now that RIA technologies are able to do so much, it’s become apparent that the mouse and keyboard...

  • No more free Sprout Builder

    By Ryan Stewart | January 14, 2009, 4:53pm PST

    Marshall has the news up that Sprout Builder will no longer be offering free accounts. Sprout Builder is one of my favorite applications on the net and I always thought what they were doing for...

  • Brightcove adds some new leadership talent

    By Ryan Stewart | January 12, 2009, 11:22am PST

    This morning Brightcove made an announcement that they’re adding a few new faces. A couple of those faces will be familiar to anyone who has been involved in the RIA world for the past...

  • Looking ahead to 2009

    By Ryan Stewart | January 7, 2009, 3:24pm PST

    2008 was a big year for rich Internet applications. We saw companies like Curl and Appcelerator make big pushes into the RIA mindshare. We saw a significant release of Silverlight - a release that...

  • Native Client: Google's (other) plugin play

    By Ryan Stewart | December 9, 2008, 6:10am PST

    Yesterday Google announced an early developer release of Native Client, a plugin for web browsers that lets you essentially run native code like C or C++ in the browser. In theory it could be...

  • The widget conundrum

    By Ryan Stewart | December 1, 2008, 7:47am PST

    There’s a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that “entire segment” will amount to...

  • Google's video chat plugin - a big deal for RIA developers

    By Ryan Stewart | November 13, 2008, 11:36am PST

    A couple of days ago Google released a video chat plugin for Gmail. With Google, it’s always a little hard to figure out where all of the pieces fit - that’s why there are entire blogs...

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