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Web 2.0 Features Objective The objective of this document is to provide the insight to the web 2.0 features and general requirements associated with the feature. The document also attempts to provide information on the Semantic markups, Mashups, Tableless design. Pre-requisites Web application development experience, HTML/XHTML/DHTML/Java scripting/DOM knowledge UI development experience Ability to provide user’s perspective to enable good user experience Below listed are some concepts that will be handy while designing Web 2.0 sites. Rich user experience The richness is very subjective. The idea here is to enhance the look and feel, experience of the User interface so that the users of the web site are emotionally connected which would result in long lasting association. In today’s world, sustaining and increasing the user base are the biggest challenges; to make it much more difficult, the competition is severe. Semantic markup Traditional usages of HTML tags which are meant ...

In this blog, I will talk about one of the requirements related to YouTube integration. Here's the context. Your customer will publish RSS feed and your customer does not want to manually log into YouTube site and upload. The customer wants the uploading activity to be automated. He wants you to design loosely coupled application. This is one of the typical integration requirements in the media space. Google provides YouTube APIs through which one can build stand-alone application. Here is one of the solutions that can be implemented. In this case, design a stand-alone YouTubeUploader application that can be scheduled through Cron job. While YouTube enables developers with APIs, authentication mechanisms, client libraries, it is important to segregate roles and responsiblity of your classes. In my solution, I will make YouTubeUploader as main class which can be scheduled through cron job. This class invokes FeedParser which can access feed through http URL. Usually, the publishers ...

Media distribution platforms focus on effective distribution of the media content, predominantly videos. With the increasing demand on enabling the web presence with dynamic video content, the platform adds immense value paving ways for generating revenue. It is not unusual to see the popular content management organizations will expand to provide media distribution services. In simple words, media distribution involves content ingestion, content processing, content categorization, content management, content protection, content distribution, content delivery targeted specifically to content consumption layer. Content ingestion is a process of gathering content from various sources. When acquired from various sources, they need to converted in uniform format to manage it efficiently. For example, news clip recorded on the field can be in raw digital format, or user generated home video uploaded to the system, or Warner brothers new movie made available in the system. Before making the...

Why Alfresco, not any other? I personally find Alfresco has many features already built in that can be used for office automation and collaboration along with content management. Having said that I dont think, Alfresco user interface is one of the greatest to use. However, UI is good enough to carry on the work. I feel, as far the enterprises are concerned, getting the relevant business functionality assumes greater importance. I am listing some of the features, I find it useful for organization. - Built in content model, role, aspects, rules are good enough to implement workable solutions - Well built document management system extended to manage records as well - Alfresco share, a web application for collaboration is good enough for the kind of collaborations we normally perform in organizations - Google like search - Ability to use Google docs as repository (simple enablement in configuration) - Ability to create access controlled repository - Ability to expose repository as network...