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GoogleAppEngine -Not Delivering On the Promise So Far

Well, if you haven't heard of it yet, Google launched something called "Google App Engine", a highly available, highly scalable, complete stack for deploying and hosting web applications. It "sorta" competes against Amazon's EC2.

Posted: Apr. 8, 2008 11:36 PM

Announcing a $50K Venture Fund With Microsoft

This is a little premature, but the deal is done. Following the core tenets that I believe this venture fund should operate, I'm "un-announcing" a $50K fund with Microsoft here in a web 2.0 way. The official PR/press will follow in the next month or

Posted: Apr. 1, 2008 09:41 AM

Will Rich Internet Become Rich Man's Internet?

The Web is one of the most important technological as well as social/cultural developments in our life. Its global impact is rooted in its openness and its capability to evolve on a democratic basis. However, I have concerns. I'm concerned about th

Posted: Mar. 31, 2008 10:51 AM

OpenAjax F2F Meeting at NYC

The F2F meeting of OpenAjax Alliance at NYC on March 21st worked out really well in my oppinion. The discussions around Ajax Runtime wish list (http://www.openajax.org/runtime/wiki/Main_Page) were fantastic. It looks to me that we are seeing some goo

Posted: Mar. 24, 2008 11:22 AM

Possible Solutions to Web Security Issues

Security is a big issue that needs a lot of attention from the industry: cross site scripting, lack of security sandbox, cross site request forgery, mashup security, etc. are all major challenges facing us. In the Web 2.0 world, these issues are jus

Posted: Mar. 11, 2008 03:05 PM

A Study of Ajax Performance Issues

There are various concerns about Ajax performance. Some people blame JavaScript and some people blame the browsers. What is the reality? This article presents a study and analysis of the various Ajax performance issues. For example, what are the co

Posted: Jan. 22, 2008 11:28 AM

The Common Culture Root of Web 2.0 and Barack Obama

What is the reason for this Obama phenomenon? Why is it happening now, not ten years ago or four years ago, but at this particular moment of history? Likewise, similar questions can be asked: What is the reason for this Web 2.0 phenomenon? Why now

Posted: Jan. 8, 2008 02:39 PM

Programmatic DOM Node Manipulation on IE

Programmatic DOM node manipulation is actually not straightforward, given that Internet Explorer has so many unique DOM behaviors. I ran into quite a few issues recently when I was playing with Dojo Toolkit. I didnt find a thorough answer to my ques

Posted: Jan. 2, 2008 07:01 PM

The Misleading "Business vs. Technology" Argument - Tips for Startups

In this high tech industry, one of the most misunderstood and potentially misleading conventional wisdom about startups is the separation of "business side" and "technical side" and "technical people should listen to the business people". Such teach

Posted: Dec. 21, 2007 12:20 PM

Ajax Coding - Is This a Little Too Much Hack for Prototype.js?

Prototype.js is a popular Ajax toolkit for web developers. I have enjoyed using it despite the complains I heard from people about how Prototype.js does too much JavaScript hacking that breaks other people's code. I tend to brush such complains aside

Posted: Nov. 21, 2007 04:20 AM

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	Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System By James Hamilton anonymous coward wrote: For those wondering that's a system76 computer in the picture.
	Early Notes on GoogleApps By Dave Winer Google News Desk wrote: Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal be...
	Tracking RIAs with Google Analytics and Unica NetInsight By Judah Phillips Georges wrote: Interresting article. Where do you enable "events" in Google Analytics? http://code.go ogle.com/apis/analytics/d ocs/eventTrackerOverview. html says it's only available to Beta participants.
	ASF Grants Synapse Separate, Top-Level Project Billing By Alex Fletcher Bobbi wrote: I found FAQ on this topic at the Servicemix web site to be pretty accurant about the differences between them (http://servicemix.apache .org/how-does-servicemix- compare-to-synapse.html). Only thing is Syanpse developers call it a ESB, I'm not sure if it really is (sq...
	DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like! By Kevin Hoffman DreamSpark News Desk wrote: It appears as though University and high school students will, at some point (I don't know the hardcore details) be able to receive free copies of Visual Studio, SQL server, and other development servers and enterprise servers.