From the Editor http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from From the Editor Copyright 2008 OPEN WEB DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL Tue, 13 May 2008 02:42:00 GMT OPEN WEB DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss Which Is More Important - Saddam Hussein or Google? http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/325130.htmhttp://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/325130.htm Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:00:00 GMT The year 2006 in which YouTube became culturally ubiquitous, Flash video became the de facto Internet video standard of the Web, Microsoft beta-launched Vista, and the Wii entered our lives - was also memorable for one or two other real-world events such as the hanging of Saddam Hussein, prompting the obvious question: Is the progress of i-Technology front-runners like Google and eBay more, or less, important than the trial and execution of Saddam. Is the Rise of Google the End of the Game for Everyone Else? http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/313512.htmhttp://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/313512.htm Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT As I write this, the stock price of Google, Inc. just exceeded $500 for the first time in the company's still-brief (two-year) history as a public company. That gives the search colossus a market cap of $150 billion, many times in excess of its physical assets - currently valued at $10.2 billion. i-Technology Blog: Google Trends on Java, McNealy, AJAX, and SOA Give Pause For Thought http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/220773.htmhttp://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/220773.htm Fri, 12 May 2006 09:15:00 GMT Like so many of the ideas that tumble out of the Googleplex into the public domain, Google Trends is irresistible. Jeremy Geelan puts the application, newly taken out of beta and now available to all cyberspace from the Google main page, through its paces by taking it out for a giddy spin around the i-Technology world. The results are surprising...