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MORE WEB 2.0 TOP STORIES  Web 2.0 – Personal Branding Checklist This is a checklist of items you need for an all-encompassing personal branding strategy. Personal branding is the process of marketing and selling yourself as a brand in order to gain success in business. Personal branding is a continual process just as knowing yourself is a continual process. As you grow, so does your brand. The need for personal branding arises from the fact that globalization has increased competition in the workplace. As the wheat is separated from the chaff, if you are left standing, you are left standing with others of good caliber. The playing field is now that much more challenging since your competition is as good as, or better, than you.  Mobile AJAX - Frequently Asked Questions The first Rich FAQ we are presenting is the long overdue Mobile Ajax FAQ and was created by Ajit Jaokar, Rocco Georgi and Bryan Rieger. We welcome comments and feedback. AJAX is a browser technology that involves the use of existing Web standards and technologies (XML/XHTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript, XHR - XMLHttpRequest) to create more responsive Web applications that reduce bandwidth usage by avoiding full page refreshes and providing a more 'desktop application-like' user experience. The term AJAX was coined by Jesse James Garrett in his seminal document at Adaptive Path.  AJAX Sponsor Webcasts Are Now Available The Webcasts now available online are Sahil Malik's (telerik) 'How to Take Desktop Applications to the Web' session, Christophe Coenraets' (Adobe) 'Extending AJAX with Adobe Flex' session, Jouk Pleiter's (Backbase) 'AJAX Best Practices' session, and Kevin Hakman's (TIBCO) 'The Four Quantum States of AJAX' session. The 12-hour event with its entire 11 sessions is also available as an on-demand product, in an easy to navigate DVD for all delegates of 'Real-World AJAX' and 'AjaxWorld Conference & Expo.' Apple and the Cardinal Rules of the "Internet Singularity" In considering the 'Internet Singularity,' Mark Scrimshire has been postulating a series of guidelines or rules. He has already written about the first; here he looks at the second and third rules. IBM Leads "Open AJAX" Coalition of Web 2.0 Vendors IBM is taking the lead role in rolling out an 'Open AJAX' initiative that seems sure to add significant momentum to recent grassroots efforts to bring Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX, application development to the forefront of the i-technology universe. Open source organizations such as Eclipse and Mozilla are backing the initiative, as are a suite of companies that each bring something unique to this effort. SYS-CON Launches World's First Web 2.0-Focused Magazine We have a long way to go before the next generation of the Web truly arrives. Years and years. As commentator Shel Israel has said: 'Web 2.0 isn't dead. It's just barely being born.' In line with its commitment to keep developers, IT managers, and vendors alike ahead of the i-Technology curve, SYS-CON Media has just unveiled its latest new magazine and website: Web 2.0 Journal (www.web2.sys-con.com). Is Web 2.0 Entering "The Trough of Disillusionment"? 'Jeffrey Zeldman has an interesting and widely covered new article on Web 2.0 which is almost exactly as content free as he claims the Web 2.0 hypesters are,' writes Dion Hinchcliffe. 'That's not to say that he doesn't make a few factually correct statements about AJAX and even makes a passing mention of social software,' Hinchcliffe continues. 'But he's missing many of the big pieces of Web 2.0 since he's apparently looking at it through the somewhat myopic tunnel vision of a web page designer.' "Mobile Web 2.0" – A Service Blueprint Combining del.icio. Introducing an intriguing mobile version of a combination of , Ajit Jaokar continues his insightful contributions to the fast-emerging new 'Mobile Web 2.0' category of ideas and applications. Welcome the Arrival of Adobe and Web 2.0 It's official - the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia has been finalized and our beloved ColdFusion has a new home. Is this a bad thing? No, not at all. There was a lot of talk within the community about how this may adversely effect the server, but talk is cheap and, in this case, also very premature. TODAY'S TOP LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON ! |
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
'Those that say open
source software can't be
safe for customers - or
that commercially
indemnified software
can't foster community -
are merely advancing
their own agenda. Without
any basis in fact.' That,
according to Sun's CEO
Jonathan Schwartz, is why
the exec...
'AJAX is not a fad,'
according to Andy Lyttle.
'People aren't using AJAX
just because it's AJAX.
It's not for
buzzword-compliance,
although it has become a
buzzword. It's not for
adding useless frills,
although it can be used
for useless frills. AJAX
is a tool to ...
November 13 marked the
16th birthday of the
World Wide Web, according
to the definitive
timeline published by the
W3C itself, which
identifies the first web
page (no longer extant)
as having been located.
The occasion has not
unsurprisingly unleashed
a wave of Web...
The question that forms
the title of this
editorial was recently
asked by a young observer
of the Web 2.0 scene,
Skinner Layne, who
contends that the key
thing to determine about
Web 2.0 is whether it is
best characterized as a
revolution in Web
development or as ...
When a company as
Java-centric as Wily
Technology launches its
first .NET solution, the
software development
world takes notice. Now
as a part of CA, Wily has
just GA'd its flagship
Introscope tool for .NET,
and one of the reasons it
has done so is that
worldwide ...
Once upon a time, Sun and
Apple used to have about
the same market cap.
Today Apple has a market
cap of $63BN while Sun's
is just $17BN. Ahead of
Sun, unbeknownst to many,
is Adobe. Its market cap
today is $18BN. For a
company that in 1998 was
worth 'only' $1.7BN it...
At the Real-World AJAX
seminar in New York City
on March 13, SYS-CON
Events had a chance to
speak with Jesse James
Garrett, the director of
user experience strategy
and founding partner of
Adaptive Path as well as
the 'Father of AJAX.'
The winds of change in
the Web world have
reached hurricane force
right now, and nowhere
are they blowing more
fiercely than around that
epicenter of weather
activity that's been
labeled 'Web 2.0.' There,
a perfect storm is
brewing. 
Now that the web is well
on its way to becoming
more responsive, smoother
and reliable - and
correspondingly more
enjoyable to work with -
AJAXWorld Magazine stops
up and tries to
'freeze-frame' the
moment. We take a look at
the question that is
presently on the m...
Whether anyone arriving
at 8:30AM this morning to
attend Dion Hinchcliffe's
inaugural 'AJAX
University Bootcamp' at
AJAXWorld 2006 realized
that just nine hours
later they'd be talking
intelligently about using
geocoding in image tags
to build an application
'mash...
Once upon a time - in a
world before MashupCamps
and online widget
platforms like live.com,
before Google's
personalized homepage and
pageflakes, and before
JSON, Comet, Dojo, and
Apache Derby - there was
a term 'DHTML' (for
dynamic HTML). It was
used, as Wikiped...
According to our
worldwide network of
software development
activists, evangelists,
and executives, 2006
promises to be a vintage
year for software
development...with IE7,
Atlas, and AJAX featuring
prominently. 
Since most any two words
can and will be put
together in this world,
what with us being Homo
Loquens and all, it's
easy just to shrug when
you hear new colloquies
like 'social software,'
'social networking,' or
'social computing' and
dismiss them as just
three mor...
Web 2.0 is putting me
back in touch with all
that was good about those
pre-Web days: putting me
back in control, if you
like. Instead of
webmasters, let alone
media moguls. That is why
it is so fascinating to
watch the players act out
their parts. For example
that...
Does the arrival of
'Google Apps for your
Domain' sound the
death-knell for Redmond's
world domination? That is
the question sweeping the
industry this week as the
owner of the world's
most-used search engine
released a set of hosted
applications 'for
organization...
'One of the challenges
for anyone who, like
Jesse James Garrett
('Ajax') or Tim O'Reilly
('Web 2.0'), has devised
a new word or phrase that
catches on and spreads
like wildfire is what to
do for an encore.
O'Reilly's technique is
...