The future is in every moment.

May 2010

1.5 Final Version on the way (June/2010).

• Support for iPad Drag and Drop.
  
• New Clipboard feature that allows exchanging data between widgets.
• Introducing the GRID - a customizable ListViewer for your dynamic data. Simply connect your JSON output to the GRID and get a full featured list with INLINE EDITING, SORTING and DRAG DROP enabled.
• Widgets now communicate by introducing CONTRACTS.
  The new 1.5 Drag Drop Manager can exchange data between Widgets that have signed up identical contracts.
  And you can use it with 'NO CODE' - just by filling a JSON descriptor.
• Netvibes UWA Emulator enhanced.
  

May 2009

1.4 Final Version ready to download.

After thinking about the results of Beta 1.4 for quite a while it was now decided what needs to be finished for the final 1.4.

The final 1.4 does fix the most unwanted window resize behaviour and lots of minor issues.
Also you do not need to download YUI as separate package to run the portal.

Therefore now a package of YUI 2.6 comes with the download and you can run the portal right after unpacking the archive to
your server (APACHE). You will find downloads here .

Yours

Frank Kempf, 2112Portals.com 

From our point of view Web 2.0 will have to change the point of view.

To do this developers must reverse the evidence of the senses.
Most approaches are taking the application as a whole into consideration.
This leads to full-fledged applications that care about anything what needs to be displayed or hidden or loaded and so on, mostly generating a full html document.

This will stall the process of reusability and more important the VALUE ADDING OPPORTUNITIES.
The Application will run exactly in the place where it was designed for and will not let any of its information be partly reused by another Web Page.

ThinkWidget - prepare to be your own customer.

This is the real key to Service Oriented Architecture (as mentioned on another page: SOA rather is a state of mind than a technology).

By taking this new point of view developers spin off the traditional Web Page approach and all of a sudden could enrich any application.
Not to mention the ability to finally open a new market for components.

The 2112portals approach.

Back in late 2007 the idea of Web Pages being modifiable by the user began to dwell within our little company. Inspired first by the YAHOO (YUI) Javascript Framework and not to forget the Netvibes Site that let the user decide what information to load into her page and also giving her control by employing Javascript to move around the 'Widgets'.

What we strongly disliked about the Netvibes(and google) approach was the centralistic/monopolistic form of organisation of the information - Any widget would run only  in the Netvibes environment.

We want a free information world with every webmaster being able to provide his visitors with content hosted on his site and not pointing to other sites, losing traffic.

That was when we started to implement our Netvibes UWA Emulator (UWA Stands for 'Universal Widget API') enabling any APACHE Server to host widgets that are programmed for the UWA.

UWA is the (not so new) idea of 'write once run anywhere' - so writing a widget using UWA would enable the widget to be plugged into MAC, iGoogle, Netvibes and now also into your own Web Page.