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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.
Since most any two words
can and will be put
together in this world,
what with us being Homo
Loquens and all, it is
easy just to shrug when
you hear new colloquies
like 'social software,'
'social networking' or
'social computing' and
dismiss them as just
three mor...
'Seems like a lot going
on here,' wrote John
Dowdell; 'The place is
pretty packed. Geeks
mingled with suits; some
of the geeks IN suits,'
wrote Flash guru Jesse
Randall Warden. 'Loooots
of demos. And that's
exactly what I came for,'
wrote arpit. The
blogosphere ha...
The historic Grand
Ballroom of The Roosevelt
Hotel in midtown
Manhattan again looks
fantastic and Adobe's
Dave Mendels (pictured)
is keynoting which is
certain to be a huge hit
with the audience because
he'll incorporate live
demos etc.
For those who think that
one weakness of the
Newsweek piece is its
title, MSNBC has come to
the rescue by repurposing
it under the - in my
view, far sharper- title
'The New Wisdom of the
Web.' This is a much more
powerful rallying cry and
I, for one, should have
m...
In one of my (several)
former professional
lives, I used to publish
books about the future,
including, for example,
the world's first
full-length book about
groupware. Unless we can
first capture and
thereafter harvest -
asynchronously, as and
when it is most need...
At SYS-CON Media's SOA
Web Services Edge
Conference in New York
City, we had a chance to
sit down with David
Mendels, general manager
of Adobe, to discuss
Adobe's acquisition of
Macromedia, Flex, RIA,
and more.
We're here with Pierre
Fricke, director of
product management at
JBoss, at LinuxWorld in
Boston. JBoss has made
about 77 announcements
and it's only day two,
and there's some other
stuff we must get onto.
Thank you for joining us
Pierre. 
Ever since Google
realized that 12% of the
population would consult
Google prior to seeing a
doctor, which was
followed by a British
Medical Journal editorial
suggesting that one of
the natural next steps
for Google would be some
kind of medical database
for perso...
In the seven brief years
since selling
Mecklermedia, the
Chairman and CEO of
Jupitermedia - Alan
Meckler - appears to have
packed in what most
business leaders would
happily have accepted as
their lifetime's
achievement. SYS-CON
Media group publisher and
editori...
The advisability of
eating in your own
kitchen is something you
often hear about, but
never does it make more
sense than when applied
in the world of software
development. Why accept
that service-oriented
architecture is a must
for your mission-critical
backend sy...
When newsstands
throughout America on
Monday, March 27, started
displaying the April 3
issue of Newsweek with
its cover story about Web
2.0 - 'Putting the 'We'
in Web' - it seems to me
that we have reached one
of Malcolm Gladwell's
now-famous Tipping
Points. 
AS well as examining the
past comments about the
prospects of an
open-source Java by
Jonathan Schwartz, now
CEO of Sun, today's
round-up of influencers
and their opinions
includes the thoughts of
LinuxQuestions.org
founder Jeremy Garcia.
Not since the formation
of NATO in 1945 have four
letters been combined to
such effect, nor has any
4-letter acronym since
then been the subject of
such hyperbole. (Quod
erat demonstrandum.)
When Nicholas Carr posed
the question 'Does IT
Matter?' in his
now-famous Harvard
Business Review essay, he
clearly knew that it
would provoke discussion.
He probably didn't know,
on the other hand, that
it would eventually cause
the world's richest man -
whose we...
We're not even at the end
of the first quarter yet,
and 2006 seems already to
have brought with it as
much change in the world
of Internet technologies
as all four quarters of
2005 combined. Despite
the headline-grabbing
mega-deals of '05, in '06
the mid-market is s...
Almost anyone who writes
about Internet
technologies, or
i-Technology in
shorthand, runs into a
problem area from time to
time concerning the issue
of what in the
i-Technology world was
invented by whom?
When a San Francisco web
development company was
on February 14 assigned a
US patent covering the
use of rich-media
applications on the
Internet, it was always
going to be only a matter
of time before the
self-same Internet
exploded with concern and
astonishment. ...
If you want to learn AJAX
you should probably buy a
few books, buy an AJAX
IDE, and go to a few
training classes. But
first, why not mingle
with people that already
know it, by visiting the
very latest and
fastest-growing AJAX
website,
http://ajax.sys-con.com -
...