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- AJAX
- Asynchronous JAvaScript and XML Using an enhancement in JavaScript that allows Web pages to be more interactive and behave like local applications, which are also known as "rich client"...
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ZDNet Resources
- Expanding Web 2.0 to the masses with Rich Internet Applications
- There is a report today that details a survey by Pew and covers how Americans see themselves in the tech infrastructure. The finding is that while Web 2.0 gets a ton of buzz, Only 8% of people in America really do a range of Web 2.0 activities. Only 31% of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Why Do People Hate Building Desktop Applications?
- After reading Paul Grahams inflammatory post about how Microsoft is dead, Simeon Bateman and I got into a little back and forth over IM about the merits of what he was saying. I tend to agree with Don Dodge, about both the title of the piece and the "real meaning"...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- Bruce Eckel on Java and Rich Internet Applications
- Bruce Eckel, the author of Thinking in Java and a pretty influential figure in the Java community posted a long, eloquent assessment of the web, Java and Rich Internet Applications. To me its a signal that RIAs continue to gain ground and Bruce has some great thoughts on the subject....
- Tags: Programming languages, CSS, AJAX, Java, RIA, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- The role of the desktop in Rich Internet Applications
- Ive been thinking about what roles the web and the desktop play in the realm of Rich Internet Applications. I see a couple of big reasons RIAs have become much more popular in the past few months. One is that a good experience has become a primary requirement...
- Tags: Desktops, desktop, Web, RIA
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- Microsoft's Mix 07 registration opens
- I saw over on Cnet that Microsoft has opened registration for Mix 07. I think Mix is going to be a very, very solid conference. As the CNet article notes, this is Microsoft branching out and having a conversation with developers about their web technologies. The fact that Ray Ozzie...
- Tags: WPF/E, Mix07, Devigner Workflow, Expression Studio, Design, Ajax, Atlas, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Rich Internet Applications are killing the page view metric
- Steve Rubel predicts that the page view, long the dictator of what the new hotness on the internet is, will fall out of fashion in the next few years. The reason? The page view does not offer a suitable way to measure the next generation of web sites....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Ajax, Web, advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Richard drops a bombshell
- Alright, its 2:00 in the morning here in the 206 and I was JUST getting ready to go to bed. Unfortunately for my beauty sleep I need lots, I checked Techmeme and saw this headline: "The State of Web Develpoment - Ajax set to surpass Flash in 07" courtesy...
- Tags: Flash, AJAX
- Blog posts 2006-10-05
- Don't try to do interactive graphics with Ajax
- One of the things that I think really differentiates Rich Internet Applications from traditional, Ajax-based web applications is that RIAs provide a level of interaction that Ajax just cant. Right now, because everyone is used to the browser model, were okay with making our text-heavy applications interactive. That seems very...
- Tags: AJAX
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- The coming RIA wars: A roundup of the Web's new face
- A host of powerful new methods for rapidly creating compelling browser-based software aka Rich Internet Applications have recently come to market, or are rapidly heading there. While the technique getting the most press by far these days is still Ajax, there are a number of new approaches that...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Web browser, AJAX
- Blog posts 2006-09-11
Additional Resources
- Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy
- It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....
- Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Oh, and BTW: 'Intellectually Bankrupt' FCC Chief To Be Around Until Mid-2009
- There's little love lost between the nation's largest cable operator, Comcast, and the country's top industry watchdog, Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin During his tenure, Martin has pushed repeatedly to usher in...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Chairman, Federal Government, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Sage to step into the on-demand ring
- News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...
- Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Does Drew decision criminalize TOS violations?
- I suggested that prosecutors and the Meiers think about a deal with Drew in which she waives her right to appeal. Many people wrote in to say no, along these lines: Drew bullied and by the end of the day a 13 year old girl...
- Tags: Law, Statute, Government, Internet, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Hacking, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation
- Apple recently sent a "cease and desist" email to bluwiki demanding the removal of postings by users who are trying to figure out how to write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod touch. According to the EFF: Apple doesn't...
- Tags: Apple iPod, DMCA, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict
- Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Zoho launches CloudSQL; Plays anti-lock-in card
- Zoho on Tuesday launched CloudSQL, a middleware layer that gives developers access to Zoho Applications data via a SQL database call. With the move, Zoho is playing an anti-lock-in card. One of the biggest worries about software as a service is that your data--and your business--can be...
- Tags: Card, Monitor, Data, SQL, CloudSQL, Zoho Applications, Databases, Software As A Service (SaaS), Programming Languages, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Zoho's CloudSQL: a real step forward
- Zoho just can't stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own. This is exciting stuff. For the...
- Tags: SQL, Cloud, Zoho, Smb/Sme, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study
- The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...
- Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-02
- Google Chrome and the extension conundrum
- Google appears to be on the extension bandwagon for its Chrome browser, but that also opens a Pandora's box. In an extensions document via Stephen Shankland and Aaron Boodman Google outlines its plan to build extensions for Chrome. Extensions are the most requested feature for Chrome. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Extension, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Top Web companies in October 2008
- Parent Audience, 000 Time 1. Google 128,667 1:57:26 2. Microsoft 121,819 2:35:43 3. Yahoo! 117,715 3:22:08 4. AOL LLC 88,028 3:34:41 5. News Corp. Online 78,135 1:36:45 6. eBay 60,543 1:40:32 7. InterActiveCorp 60,092 0:17:20 ...
- Tags: Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
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