Let me introduce you to Wyaworks

Our mission is quite simple. Wyaworks aims to do for web development what blogging has done for publishing.

That is we want any Internet user to be able to build or customize web applications that do exactly what they want it to do. We want people to be able to make the Internet work the way that they want it to work.

In order to do so, we need to give people a way to build applications that are ridiculously simple and easy. Point and click. Drag and drop. Applications in minutes not months.

How do we do this? Wyaworks is a widget-based development environment. Wyaworks enables you to quickly and easily build application widgets to collect information, display information, manipulate information and then drag and drop those widgets onto a page to piece together what can be very, powerful Web applications. Furthermore, we want users to then be able to pull apart applications, dismantle and then reassemble them so that they customize the application to work exactly the way they want it to.

If Read/Write is Web 2.0, Wyaworks believes that Build/Rebuild is going to be Web 2.5. The Internet needs to learn to work the way the user wants it to work, rather than asking the user to learn to work as has been dictated to them by the software developer.

Our first toe in the water is an online service we've called WyaCracker. WyaCracker is a Widget builder. It allows anyone to build simple widgets or mini-applications that they can email, paste into their blog or plug into their home page. Need to take a quick poll of a group – build a form, press the email button and then log into WyaCracker to view and manage the responses. Want to announce a new event on your plug? Plug in an RSVP widget and start collecting registrations without any pain or hassle. Want a guest book for your home page? With WyaCracker you can create one, in any style or in any form you like, in minutes. Want to spruce up your MySpace page? Your only limit is your imagination.

WyaCracker in many ways is a proof-of-concept product. We want people to start thinking about how they can do things more effectively by building Widgets or applications, rather than manualy collecting and collating data via email or paper forms. We've focused the initial release of WyaCracker on enabling people to build data collection Widgets because that's where we think the biggest gap in the market is. As we build out WyaCracker we'll enable users to create more display-oriented Widgets that use data that may be pulled in from an RSS feed or other means. But right now, we want to keep things very simple and let the user community direct our development. Nobody has yet brought application development to the wider Internet community and we recognize that in order to do this, we need to listen to ordinary Internet users and really, understand how they might approach Widget making. Our initial market research indicates that we needed to create something that was bright, fun and simple. Please tell us if we've succeeded or what we need to fix or do better.

What is unique about the Wyaworks platform is the same system that enables one to build these very simple WyaCracker Widgets has already been used to build mission critical or complex applications for companies as large as Boeing. Wyaworks is a start-up in so much as we're starting with a new brand, strategy and vision but the technology that underpins Wyaworks is not new. Originally called WyaNet, this platform creates fully-fledged SQL-based, J2EE-compliant applications that can be plugged and ported anywhere. There's no lock-in.

We like to say that our goal is to enable your Mom to build an application but if your mom just happens to be a certified J2EE software architect then all the better.

This unique facet of the Wyaworks platform has enabled us to develop a patent-pending, secure Intranet-in-a-box device called WyaWall. A company simply plugs the WyaWall device into their network and they can immediately start making use of the WyaNet suite of pre-built Intranet applications that sits behind their firewall and which then can be simply and easily customized to suit individual requirements.

WyaWorks believes this will be huge to value-added resellers who can build their own vertical applications simply and easily on Wyaworks, run them on a WyaWall device and then offer their clients a complete plug-and-work, customized Intranet solution. What can be simpler for both service provider or customer?

So don't let WyaCracker fool you. This is no Web 2.0 built-to-flip pretender. We believe we can take this baby all the way. Wyaworks is disruptive. Wyaworks can be game-changing. And behind it all is real technology and a real revenue model.

Welcome to the WyaWay.

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