BetaNews reported that Yahoo! delivered lower page views due to increased rate of AJAX conversion. "Clickz.com, managing editor Pamela Parker openly predicted that Yahoo's AJAX-enabled home page rollout - which was in beta at that time - would directly lead to reductions in page view count, though not necessarily in real traffic. One example of an AJAX control Parker noted was a "personal assistant," which works like a mini-browser, serving up different small batches of content from throughout Yahoo's mix of services."
Yahoo officials told Parker for that article that, while they planned to attach a fix advertising space to that AJAX control, which would remain in place while users continued to browse, they had no model in mind for how they would count advertising impressions for that control.
Session Description: The Web is characterized today by applications that are more desktop-like in their interaction patterns. Some, like the new Yahoo! Mail beta, are almost indistinguishable from desktop applications; others, like the new Yahoo! Photos, live more towards the middle of the Web-page/desktop-app continuum. Given the difficulty some very desktop-like web projects have had in achieving a general release (the more desktop-like, the longer the beta), it would appear that there is an emerging "sweet spot" for web applications. In that sweet spot, Web applications leverage both the modest, powerful richness of which browsers are capable and the incredible strengths and learnabililty of the lightweight, document-oriented Web.
Speaker Bio: Eric Miraglia, one of the world's leading experts on "advanced JavaScript utilities and widgets" works for Yahoo!'s Presentation Platform Team. He plays a critical role in helping product teams realize their forward-reaching development goals. He also teaches regular classes for Yahoo web developers. Eric has been involved in the creation of social web applications since 1995, when he began developing interactive writing spaces for universities; his Speakeasy Studio & Café was used by more than 100 universities between 1997 and 2004. Since 2003, he has been a part of Yahoo!'s web development community. When he's not trying to convince pixels to do what they're told, he can sometimes be found at Stanford University, where he teaches writing as a visiting lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in the strange hybrid discipline of Technology and Rhetoric.
About RIA News Desk Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.
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News wrote: The Web is
characterized today by
applications that are
more desktop-like in
their interaction
patterns. Some, like the
new Yahoo! Mail beta, are
almost indistinguishable
from desktop
applications; others,
like the new Yahoo!
Photos, live more towards
the middle of the
Web-page/desktop-app
continuum. Given the
difficulty some very
desktop-like web projects
have had in achieving a
general release (the more
desktop-like, the longer
the beta), it would
appear that there is an
emerging 'sweet spot' for
web applications. In that
sweet spot, Web
applications leverage
both the modest, powerful
richness of which
browsers are capable and
the incredible strengths
and learnabililty of the
lightweight,
document-oriented Web.
n d wrote: The Web is
characterized today by
applications that are
more desktop-like in
their interaction
patterns. Some, like the
new Yahoo! Mail beta, are
almost indistinguishable
from desktop
applications; others,
like the new Yahoo!
Photos, live more towards
the middle of the
Web-page/desktop-app
continuum. Given the
difficulty some very
desktop-like web projects
have had in achieving a
general release (the more
desktop-like, the longer
the beta), it would
appear that there is an
emerging 'sweet spot' for
web applications. In that
sweet spot, Web
applications leverage
both the modest, powerful
richness of which
browsers are capable and
the incredible strengths
and learnabililty of the
lightweight,
document-oriented Web.
n d wrote: The Web is
characterized today by
applications that are
more desktop-like in
their interaction
patterns. Some, like the
new Yahoo! Mail beta, are
almost indistinguishable
from desktop
applications; others,
like the new Yahoo!
Photos, live more towards
the middle of the
Web-page/desktop-app
continuum. Given the
difficulty some very
desktop-like web projects
have had in achieving a
general release (the more
desktop-like, the longer
the beta), it would
appear that there is an
emerging 'sweet spot' for
web applications. In that
sweet spot, Web
applications leverage
both the modest, powerful
richness of which
browsers are capable and
the incredible strengths
and learnabililty of the
lightweight,
document-oriented Web.
n d wrote: The Web is
characterized today by
applications that are
more desktop-like in
their interaction
patterns. Some, like the
new Yahoo! Mail beta, are
almost indistinguishable
from desktop
applications; others,
like the new Yahoo!
Photos, live more towards
the middle of the
Web-page/desktop-app
continuum. Given the
difficulty some very
desktop-like web projects
have had in achieving a
general release (the more
desktop-like, the longer
the beta), it would
appear that there is an
emerging 'sweet spot' for
web applications. In that
sweet spot, Web
applications leverage
both the modest, powerful
richness of which
browsers are capable and
the incredible strengths
and learnabililty of the
lightweight,
document-oriented Web.
n d wrote: The Web is
characterized today by
applications that are
more desktop-like in
their interaction
patterns. Some, like the
new Yahoo! Mail beta, are
almost indistinguishable
from desktop
applications; others,
like the new Yahoo!
Photos, live more towards
the middle of the
Web-page/desktop-app
continuum. Given the
difficulty some very
desktop-like web projects
have had in achieving a
general release (the more
desktop-like, the longer
the beta), it would
appear that there is an
emerging 'sweet spot' for
web applications. In that
sweet spot, Web
applications leverage
both the modest, powerful
richness of which
browsers are capable and
the incredible strengths
and learnabililty of the
lightweight,
document-oriented Web.
news desk wrote: The Web
is characterized today by
applications that are
more desktop-like in
their interaction
patterns. Some, like the
new Yahoo! Mail beta, are
almost indistinguishable
from desktop
applications; others,
like the new Yahoo!
Photos, live more towards
the middle of the
Web-page/desktop-app
continuum. Given the
difficulty some very
desktop-like web projects
have had in achieving a
general release (the more
desktop-like, the longer
the beta), it would
appear that there is an
emerging 'sweet spot' for
web applications. In that
sweet spot, Web
applications leverage
both the modest, powerful
richness of which
browsers are capable and
the incredible strengths
and learnabililty of the
lightweight,
document-oriented Web.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: The Web is
characterized today by
applications that are
more desktop-like in
their interaction
patterns. Some, like the
new Yahoo! Mail beta, are
almost indistinguishable
from desktop
applications; others,
like the new Yahoo!
Photos, live more towards
the middle of the
Web-page/desktop-app
continuum. Given the
difficulty some very
desktop-like web projects
have had in achieving a
general release (the more
desktop-like, the longer
the beta), it would
appear that there is an
emerging 'sweet spot' for
web applications. In that
sweet spot, Web
applications leverage
both the modest, powerful
richness of which
browsers are capable and
the incredible strengths
and learnabililty of the
lightweight,
document-oriented Web.
AJAXWorld News Desk
wrote: The Web is
characterized today by
applications that are
more desktop-like in
their interaction
patterns. Some, like the
new Yahoo! Mail beta, are
almost indistinguishable
from desktop
applications; others,
like the new Yahoo!
Photos, live more towards
the middle of the
Web-page/desktop-app
continuum. Given the
difficulty some very
desktop-like web projects
have had in achieving a
general release (the more
desktop-like, the longer
the beta), it would
appear that there is an
emerging 'sweet spot' for
web applications. In that
sweet spot, Web
applications leverage
both the modest, powerful
richness of which
browsers are capable and
the incredible strengths
and learnabililty of the
lightweight,
document-oriented Web.
Verizon Wireless is
snubbing Google's
Linux-based Android
initiative to go with the
LiMo Foundation's mobile
Linux spec for its next
wave of mobile phones
expected next year. Along
with Verizon, Mozilla
signed up - giving the
consortium its first
major open source ISV -
and a key
Zoho announced that it is
welcoming Google and
Yahoo users with a
unified login designed to
encourage those users to
try Zoho applications.
Now, Google and Yahoo
users who visit Zoho can
simply log into Zoho
using the usernames and
passwords associated with
their Google and Yahoo
Google has taken its
Postini investment and
turned out Google Web
Security for the
Enterprise, which is
supposed to protect
against spyware, viruses
and zero-hour threats in
real-time whether the
user is on the corporate
network or working
remotely like at a hotel
or in an airpor
It's only taken Borland
two years but it's
finally dumped its
CodeGear tools division,
responsible for Borland's
hereditary JBuilder,
Delphi and C++ Builder
lines as well as its new
web ventures into PHP and
Ruby, said to be used by
7.5 million developers.
Embarcadero Technologie
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google collect for
target
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means of support. App
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BetaNews 
Verizon Wireless is
snubbing Google's
Linux-based Android
initiative to go with the
LiMo Foundation's mobile
Linux spec for its next
wave of mobile phones
expected next year. Along
with Verizon, Mozilla
signed up - giving the
consortium its first
major open source ISV -
and a key
Google has taken its
Postini investment and
turned out Google Web
Security for the
Enterprise, which is
supposed to protect
against spyware, viruses
and zero-hour threats in
real-time whether the
user is on the corporate
network or working
remotely like at a hotel
or in an airpor
It's only taken Borland
two years but it's
finally dumped its
CodeGear tools division,
responsible for Borland's
hereditary JBuilder,
Delphi and C++ Builder
lines as well as its new
web ventures into PHP and
Ruby, said to be used by
7.5 million developers.
Embarcadero Technologie
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google collect for
target 
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means of support. App
