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December 18, 2007 | Comments: (0)

One Window?

Ephraim wonders about the necessity of having BI applications on your cellphone, and offers an alternative: One window.

"a single mobile environment, a single mobile window, if you will, lower case W please, in which information can be sent to or accessed from.

One window, one view, all critical information goes into that pot."

We already have One Window: it's called a Web browser. We also have ways to overcome the limitations of Web browsers, known collectively as RIAs, in which I include Ajax.

The whole idea struck me as funny, though, and brought to mind the inscription on Isildur's Bane (in The Lord of the Rings):

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

or, in Elvish:

Posted by Martin Heller on December 18, 2007 09:07 AM


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