iPhone – Launched in September this year, the iPhone is the invention of 2007. It has revolutionized the mobile browsing experience and the way web applications are being developed. Even though its open SDK has been delayed, many web sites have already rolled out iPhone-specific support to their hugely popular web application suite.
Google Gears – In May, Google announced Google Gears, an open source technology for creating offline web applications. Google Reader is currently the first application that is being tested; it allows users to download their RSS news feeds to their computer so that they can read stories offline. Since this is open source, developers can create offline web applications using JavaScript APIs.
Safari – Safari is the browser of choice for the Mac platform. In June, Safari for Windows was launched and since then, the browser has increased its share in the browser market.
Widgets – Introduced in 2006, widgets increased in popularity and continued to grow in 2007. The year 2007 has even been coined "The Year of the Widget" by Newsweek. Web Widgets are tiny web applications that allow publishers to syndicate their content on other sites. Widgets range from image slideshows to news tickers, from videos to polls, to other interactive applications.
Adobe Air – Adobe Intergrated Runtime (AIR) is probably the biggest development of 2007. This well designed and very promising technology allows developers to use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX and Flash to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
AJAX Frameworks – This year, there has been an increased interest in AJAX based frameworks. The number of toolkits keeps growing; according to Ajaxian.com, this month, there have been 241 registered AJAX toolkits and related libraries while in 2006 there were only 170.
Database Management Systems - Free versions of Oracle, SQLServer and DB2 have been released this year by Oracle, Microsoft and IBM respectively. This was done in response to the growing market share of open source database management systems like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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