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A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...

Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Pipe any RSS mashup via your webpage

I have two further items of good news to report about Yahoo! Pipes for anyone intrigued by the RSS mashup tutorial I posted earlier this week. First of all, the Pipes team a few hours ago introduced a workaround to the date normalization problem that had been preventing...

Tags: Yahoo, Mashups, Development

Blog posts 2007-02-16

2007: The year enterprises open their SOAs to the Internet?

Those that follow the trends on the Internet and the trends within the enterprise have long noticed a very similar direction in both spaces for a while now; a push to move their software to a real services model. The reasons for this push seem straightforward: easier integration between...

Tags: ATOM, Enterprise Mashups, REST, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), RSS, SOAP, Orchestration, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Web services, JSON, Governance, Convergence, Business Process Management, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Mashups, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Web 2.0, SaaS

Blog posts 2007-01-05

Web 2.0 Summit: IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0

One of the most consistent trends on the Internet is the rise of open APIs and the applications built on top of them, known as mashups. Programmable Web currently lists over 300 APIs that can be used for everything from building Web sites on top of Google Maps to...

Tags: Web 2.0, Business Models, SaaS, Mashups, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, SOA, Business Process Management, Governance, Collaboration, WS-*, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Global SOA, Social Software, Web services, Ajax, JSON, SOAP, RSS, ATOM, REST, Social Networking, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Speed Up Your AJAX-Based Apps With JSON

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and is a lightweight data-interchange format. Because it is text-based it is easy for humans to read and write, and it has a regular syntax that's easy to parse programmatically. JSON is basically a subset of JavaScript and, as one will see, is even...

Tags: JavaScript, Jupitermedia Corp., JSON, AJAX, Scripting Languages, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

White papers 2006-10-05

Additional Resources

iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup

Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...

Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Data Aquarium Framework for ASP.NET and AJAX (exe)

Generate ASP.NET 3.5 applications with Microsoft Ajax Control Toolkit and JSON web service in seconds. Handle with ease huge databases in your web applications by changing the data controller descriptors and presentations views in XML configuration files. Full intelli-sense support is available in Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer...

Tags: Microsoft ASP.NET, Code OnTime, Framework Source Code, .Net, AJAX, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Internet, Web Development, Web 2.0, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-07-17

Sneak peek at the new Unicode-friendly PHP6

The following is a guest post from Andrew Mager, associate technical producer at ZDNet. This dispatch is from the Bay Area PHP Meetup. He can be found at Andrewmager.com. When Andrei Zmievski isn't busy building infrastructure for a social gaming startup, or processing photos from his Nikon...

Tags: Unicode, PHP, Internationalization, TextIterator, Transliteration, Zmievski, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Are all (Microsoft and Apple) sync services created equal?

Are all Microsoft and Apple sync services created equal?Obviously it's relative.If you lost your home and still commute 100 miles per day, it's downright cheap relative to the cost of gas.What idiotcommutes 100 miles a day when they've lost their house. MOVE CLOSER TO WORK. It's not like you have...

Tags: Obviously IT, Sync Framework, Live Mesh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., emperor

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

GWT fireside chat

I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming this week

At TechEd today Bill Gates said that the second beta of Silverlight 2 will be available for download at the end of the week with a Go Live license. The Go Live license is similar to the one that was used late in the beta process for Silverlight 1 and...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Beta, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Live Mesh: Microsoft hews to open standards rule

As reported pretty much everywhere already (I rarely "scoop" things, a trait that would make me a bad journalist were I ever to become one), Microsoft has provided more details about the new platform that it is calling "Live Mesh." They will likely have the same problem explaining it that...

Tags: Open Standard, Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh, RSS, .Net, Application Servers, Scripting Languages, Middleware, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Development, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft

Silverlight and the future core of MicrosoftCompetition"the clout and the brand equity" What Microsoft has is money and the ability to isolate technology and exploit that to beat down competition. I don't mind that they're developing Silverlight but its important that they don't approach this the way they did with...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, .NET, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, tool

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh

Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its...

Tags: Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Are Web 2.0 applications using a form of desktop virtualization?

I recently had the notion that Web 2.0 applications are a form of desktop virtualization presented to me during a long conversation with a Kusnetzky Group client. I found myself "not in alignment" with this notion. What do you think? The Web 2.0 notion ...

Tags: Desktop, Web, Application, Desktop Virtualization, Access Virtualization Technology, Application Virtualization Technology, Web 2.0, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Internet, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Google unleashes Social Graph API--indexes people connections

Following on its OpenSocial APIs for building cross-social network applications, Google has created a Social Graph API that searches the Web for explicit public statements of connections between people. The Web crawler looks for XFN XHTML Friends Network and FOAF Friend of a Friend, which are standard formats used to...

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Web, Category, API, Site, Friend, People Connection, Social Graph API, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-01

MSDN Webcast: Using a Proxy Server to Call an ASP.NET Web Service From a Silverlight Web Site (Level 100)

This webcast shows how to use a proxy to call a Microsoft ASP.NET Web service. This will be an ASP.NET AJAX Web service that uses the JavaScript Object Notation JSON, which is useful when one needs applications to exchange or store structured information, such as text.

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Silverlight, Webcast, Microsoft ASP.NET, Web Service, Server, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, ASP.NET Web Service, Proxy Server, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-01-28

JSONRequest (xpi)

XMLHttpRequest has a security model which is inadequate for supporting the next generation of Web applications. JSONRequest is proposed as a new browser service that allows for two-way data exchange with any JSON data server without exposing users or organization to harm. It exchanges data between scripts on pages with...

Tags: Web Application, Web Browser, Collin Jackson, JSONRequest, XMLHttpRequest, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Internet

Software downloads 2008-01-22