<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from WEB 2.0 JOURNAL</title><link>http://www.web2journal.com/</link><description>Latest News from WEB 2.0 JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>WEB 2.0 JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:00:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from WEB 2.0 JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/114/w2j-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://www.web2journal.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Virtualization - AMD Kills Montreal for Istanbul</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/563025.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/563025.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/563025_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AMD has rethought its roadmap and, given its limited resources and near-death experience with Barcelona, it's scrubbing Montreal, the eight-core chip that was supposed to follow Shanghai, the chip after Barcelona, and substituting a six-core part code named Istanbul to be followed by a 12-core part called Magny-Cours.   Speculation has also been rife this week that AMD would finally tease out its so-called asset-lite manufacturing plans, some kind of cost-saving outsourcing scheme, at its shareholders meeting Thursday, chatter that has flamed into speculation that it will break in two - a manufacturing business and a chip design and development operation.]]></description></item><item><title>Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Gains Momentum</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/560954.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/560954.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/560954_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As I've been stating for the past five years: if you want to provide real value to your enterprise, SOA should extend out of the firewall and into the Internet. However, this was not universally accepted by the rank-and-file SOA guys. Generally speaking, most viewed SOA as something that occurred exclusively within the firewall, and extending the reach of their SOA to Internet-based resources was taboo.]]></description></item><item><title>The Tale of Two Webs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/560597.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/560597.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/560597_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When talking about the 'web' what are we referring to? For most people it's what can be experienced through their web browser including HTML, audio and video streaming, Flash-based animation, or rich Internet Application (RIA) interfaces. The key to this perspective is the web browser, which is viewed as essential for experiencing any type of content available via a hyperlink on the web.]]></description></item><item><title>Artech Launches GeneXus X to Expand Business Opportunities</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/559557.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/559557.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/559557_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Artech launched GeneXus X, the tenth GeneXus version, designed to expand the business opportunities of companies. GeneXus X incorporates new tools aimed at increasing the productivity of the work team and facilitate the rapid generation of corporate Web 2.0 applications.]]></description></item><item><title>The Way of the Widget in the Age of the Social Web</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/556304.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/556304.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/556304_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[As the Internet's newest way to connect brands with consumers, widgets have officially arrived. These portable applets appear on blogs, websites, and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. Offered by third-party developers as embedded Flash (.swf) objects, the self-contained badges allow page owners to personalize their sites with photo slide shows, music playlists, games, and other content.]]></description></item><item><title>P2P Explained: What Exactly is a Peer Network?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/552879.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/552879.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/552879_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Peer networks are really just logical graphs of computers, or, in many cases, logical graphs of connected applications. The physical topology of the peer network, means of communication, and weighting of the edges are all implementation-specific details that differ from P2P network to P2P network, but all of them can be reduced down at some point to a drawing containing nodes and edges.]]></description></item><item><title>Are Social Networks Just Another MMO Grind?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/551536.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/551536.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/551536_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[You remember back in the early days of video games when there wasn't enough capacity on the carts themselves to support 30 hours of gameplay? What was the solution to keep you playing? They made the games unbelievably freaking difficult. Try playing Kid Icarus now after having played a modern game and you'll see that the game introduces artificial barriers and creates needless blocks simply to increase the amount of time spent in the game. If you're an MMO maker and you charge a monthly fee, the more time people spend in your game the more money you make.]]></description></item><item><title>Force10 Networks Supports IBM&apos;s iDataPlex Solution For Web 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/551155.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/551155.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/551155_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Force10 Networks announced its enterprise switching technology will support IBM's iDataPlex. iDataPlex more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single rack while using 40 percent less power and will be aided by the high density and robust functionality of Force10's Ethernet switches.]]></description></item><item><title>GoGrid Launches Facebook Servers for Developers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/547848.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/547848.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/547848_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[GoGrid announced the availability of GoGrid's QuickStart Facebook servers, which allow businesses to build and deploy Facebook applications. The QuickStart Facebook Server automates and speeds up the Facebook application setup process, enabling Facebook developers to create, integrate, host and scale Facebook applications. By using a GoGrid QuickStart Facebook Server, both ASP.NET and Linux developers and systems administrators are now able to roll out Facebook-enabled servers in under 5 minutes, and when user adoption of their Facebook application increases, individual GoGrid QuickStart Facebook Servers can be scaled into load balanced server networks.]]></description></item><item><title>End-User Computing Powered by User Mashups Growing, Says Gartner</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/547237.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/547237.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/547237_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[According to research firm Gartner, more than 30% of Global 2000 organizations will enter a new era of end-user computing via user-assembled, composite applications created with enterprise mashup environments by 2010. Against this background IBM has launched its IBM Mashup Center Product, powered by intuitive user mashup capabilities from Lotus Mashups, and information access and transformation capabilities provided IBM InfoSphere MashupHub.]]></description></item><item><title>Two Doors to Enterprise Web 2.0 Adoption</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/496318.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/496318.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/496318_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Ben Worthen of the Wall Street Journal recently posted an entry about Web 2.0 adoption. He cited a Forrester survey that concluded Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions would gain broad adoption in 2008 despite clear CIO resistance to the siren call of blogs and wikis. Open source technologies like Spring and WaveMaker build unstoppable momentum within the IT organization by solving fundamental problems that much bigger players either cannot or will not solve.]]></description></item><item><title>The Latest World Wide Web Sub-Species: &quot;Domainers&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/545462.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/545462.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/545462_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Pizza.com sold recently for $2.6M, and vodka.com for $3M. Domain names are now a global business. The explosive growth in online advertising has seen Internet entrepreneurs earn millions of dollars by buying, selling, developing and monetizing web addresses, or domain names. There are now over 1,000 so-called 'domainers' (as domain owners refer to themselves), as many as 100 million registered domains, and a thriving aftermarket for domain names, with reported sales exceeding US$700M in 2007.]]></description></item><item><title>DreamFace Interactive Announced &quot;Outsider&quot; A New Version Of Their DreamFace Web 2.0 Open Source Framework</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/542955.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/542955.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/542955_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[At the AJAXWorld 2008 East Conference, DreamFace Interactive announced the availability of 'Outsider', a major new version of their DreamFace Web 2.0 Framework, for creating Enterprise 2.0 Composite Applications and Mashups. DreamFace builds on the concepts of Web 2.0: Do IT Yourself, Personalization and Sharing and extends them to provide the next generation Web 2.0 experience, targeting the enterprise with a solution to the data integration problem through secure client side integration.]]></description></item><item><title>The Invisible Hand of BI</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/540343.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/540343.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/540343_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[While software developers consider their business intelligence (BI) applications to be successful if they fulfill the core requirements, a much more meaningful gauge of success is how extensively the information derived from those applications is used. The more consumers of information you have, the greater the value you will obtain from your BI efforts.]]></description></item><item><title>New IBM Web 2.0 Portal Software Breaks Down Barrier Between Enterprise and Web</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/539309.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/539309.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/539309_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced that its new portal software with Web 2.0 support will ship this quarter. Called IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1, it is designed to securely combine information from both the enterprise and the Web. A portal is a technology for providing external and internal Web sites which can deliver information, applications, and processes to provide a personalized experience to individuals. Web 2.0 technologies are increasingly being used for business by empowering people with content, social connections and other tools to solve problems.]]></description></item><item><title>GX Launches Release Candidate for Developing Web 2.0 Apps</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/537188.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/537188.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/537188_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Artech has launched the Release Candidate (RC) of the tenth version of GeneXus, which facilitates the expansion of business knowledge to Web 2.0 due to an intuitive development environment, greater collaboration among developers and extended ability to integrate various technologies. GeneXus is an intelligent tool for the automatic creation, development and maintenance of mission critical, multi-platform applications that can adapt to business changes or to technological advances.]]></description></item><item><title>New York Times and Burnout in the Blogosphere</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/536718.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/536718.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/536718_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The NY Times had a story yesterday, much-written-about in the blogosphere, that said that bloggers were working themselves to death. This was one article about blogging I was glad to be left out of, even so, it could have been about me, a number of years ago, when my lifestyle almost did kill me.]]></description></item><item><title>RIA, SOA &amp; Web 2.0 Mashups - Mash What?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/532018.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/532018.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/532018_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It's what you don't see about the emerging Web that has everyone excited these days. Namely, it's the powerful application programming interfaces, or APIs. APIs are nothing new and have been traditionally cryptic and difficult to use. However, the advent of Web services along with the notion of mashups has changed the way we consider and leverage APIs going forward.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Explores Virtual World Creation and Collaboration with Linden Lab</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/534717.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/534717.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/534717_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Combining IBM and Linden Labs solutions together has the potential to make custom-created environments a viable option for enterprises, said IBM's VP of Digital Convergence, Colin Parris,today as IBM and Linden Lab announced the two companies are exploring the development of enterprise solutions for security-rich, custom virtual world creation and collaboration on the Second Life Grid platform.]]></description></item><item><title>Web 2.0 Is Fundamentally About Empowering People</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/518647.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/518647.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/518647_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, says Rod Smith, IBM VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan on the occasion of IBM's release of a new technology created by IBM researchers, codenamed 'SMash' - short for Secure Mashup.]]></description></item><item><title>Europe Gets Its Own Blog Search: Social Blog Search Engine Launched by Twingly</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/534075.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/534075.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/534075_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We will have worldwide coverage but are concentrating on being number one in European blog search, both by controlling spam and working with all different languages,' said Martin Källström, CEO at Twingly, the European Internet start-up, as Twingly announced today that it is launching a spam-free blog search engine.]]></description></item><item><title>AOL Snags Bebo for $850M in Cash</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/519408.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/519408.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/519408_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['What drew us to Bebo was its substantial and fast-growing worldwide user-base, its vision of a truly social web and the monetization opportunities,' said AOL chairman and CEO Randy Falco yesterday as he announced the acquisition by AOL of the social networking site Bebo.com for $850M in cash. 'This positions us to offer advertisers even greater reach and marketers significant insights into the desires and needs of consumers,' he continued.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Claims SMash Made Mashups Secure, Donates Code</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/519284.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/519284.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/519284_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM says it's found a way to make mashups secure enough for business. Because of inherent browser insecurity, mashups aren't really viable for widespread business adoption. But what's a little thing like viability compared to the pressure of keeping up with the Joneses - in this case the consumer mashup rage. So to keep the enterprise from hurting itself - and being held hostage by some cyber crook - IBM has come up with SMash, which basically lets information from different sources talk to each other - and create the one unified view mashups are famous for - but keeps them isolated so it's harder for malicious code to inject itself into the company system.]]></description></item><item><title>YeahReader 2.3 Released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/518983.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/518983.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/518983_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[YeahReader is a free tool for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and podcasts. YeahReader provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support and pop-up update notification. Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built-in blog client that will allow you to write messages to your LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress or Delicious blog, OPML support, ability to export data into HTML, CSV or JS format, multi-language support and others.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Cracks Web 2.0 Security Concerns with &quot;SMash&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/518524.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/518524.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/518524_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced new technology to secure 'mashups,' web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or emails, to create one unified view. Mashups are attractive for business use, as they allow non-technical users to gain insight on complex situations in minutes, but as with all Web-based initiatives, security has been a concern.]]></description></item><item><title>Baseball Web Service API Provides Quality Data for Integration into Web 2.0 Applications and Web Sites</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/516841.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/516841.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/516841_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[StrikeIron announced it has extended its sports offering with the addition of Major League Baseball (MLB) data from The Sports Network (TSN). The TSN Major League Baseball Web Service enables users to acquire up-to-date information on America's favorite pastime including league, team and individual player coverage via an easy-to-integrate Web Services/XML API. The Sports Network is the nation's foremost international real-time sports wire service and the leader in providing complete sports data.]]></description></item><item><title>NeboWeb Launches New ReGen Biologics Site With Web 2.0 Content Management System</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/516792.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/516792.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/516792_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[NeboWeb announced the launch of the new ReGen Biologics corporate website powered by NeboWeb's AJAX-based Content Management System. The CMS includes intuitive content management features for page creation. With integrated editing tools, file history views with rollback functionality, a newsroom/pressroom manager, multiple levels of users and permissions, and more, ReGen now has the ability to optimize content for search engines from within the CMS.]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Invests in Future Web 2.0 Developers on Campus</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/515609.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/515609.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/515609_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced the launch of the first software Innovation and Collaboration Lab on the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) campus in Rochester, N.Y., where future software developers will work on 21st century enterprise technologies -- including open collaboration products -- that harness Web 2.0 and social networking features.]]></description></item><item><title>Iron Speed Designer Version 5.1 Released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/513907.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/513907.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/513907_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Software development tools-maker Iron Speed has released Iron Speed Designer Version 5.1, the latest version of its popular Web 2.0 application generator. Iron Speed Designer generates rich interactive data entry and reporting applications for .NET. The addition of multi-level menus and enhanced application security helps IT departments generate productivity-enhancing applications in just a few hours.]]></description></item><item><title>Nexaweb Advance Offers Customers Comprehensive Solution for Legacy Modernization and Enterprise Web 2.0 Adoption</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/510235.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/510235.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/510235_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Nexaweb Technologies announced Nexaweb Advancesm  - a technology-enabled modernization solution that allows enterprises to transform legacy business applications from 3GL/4GL technologies to rich, composite web applications with less risk, in less time, and at less cost.]]></description></item><item><title>TopQuadrant Delivers Visual Scripting Language for the Semantic Web</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/509872.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/509872.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/509872_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[TopQuadrant announced SPARQLMotion,a visual scripting language that allows people without programming skills to create semantic web applications. With SPARQLMotion, end users can integrate data sources, run queries on the combined data, and create information mash-ups and reports on an as-needed basis - all without assistance from the IT department. Additionally, SPARQLMotion is compliant with and utilizes the W3C standard SPARQL.]]></description></item><item><title>Kaazing Launches New Enterprise Real-Time Solution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/509410.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/509410.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/509410_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Kaazing Corporation unveiled its new enterprise real-time solution . Kaazing Enterprise Edition enhances scalability of real-time Web solutions and can power the largest marketplaces in the world. With Kaazing's solution, customers can create and deploy mission-critical real-time Web solutions, such as trading systems, online betting applications, performance monitoring, RFID/GPS tracking systems, sports and news broadcasting applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Joffrey&apos;s Java Beta Test Perks Up the Blogosphere</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/507405.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/507405.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/507405_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Blogging and coffee go hand-in-hand.  There are more than 51 million instances of the word 'coffee' in the blogosphere, according to a Google blog search, and many top bloggers are known to write from coffee shops or brew a cup of java at home to fuel their inspiration for new posts.  Bloggers are also participating in a significant number of beta tests posted on the Internet.]]></description></item><item><title>Building Web 2.0 Rich Internet Applications with Project Zero</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/490288.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/490288.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/490288_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Project Zero is an agile development and execution environment which leverages REST and scripting runtimes to speed and simplify development of dynamic Web applications. Project Zero includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP with application programming interfaces optimized for producing REST-style services, integration mash-ups and rich Web interfaces. Project Zero is being developed openly using a Community-Driven Commercial Development process at http://www.projectzero.org. In this session, the audience will get an overview of the Project Zero Platform and learn how to develop, assemble, and run Project Zero applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Nexaweb Announces Enterprise Web 2.0 Winter eConference Series</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/505096.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/505096.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/505096_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Nexaweb announced its Winter 2008 eConference Series aimed at helping software developers, enterprise architects and executives learn best practices and strategies for building and deploying enterprise-class composite, ?mashup? and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).]]></description></item><item><title>Ulitzer to Give Drupal 6.0 Its Biggest Scalability Challenge Yet</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/495964.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/495964.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/495964_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Ulitzer, Inc., which initially made the headlines with its 'job descriptions from the future,' announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer 'beta' site on July 4, 2008, with 5,500 authors and 600,000 original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals. Each journal offers up to 14 content-specific sections, written by the world's most respected authors, who are experts in their particular fields. All Ulitzer authors will get paid for their contributions.]]></description></item><item><title>Trolltech&apos;s Qt WebKit Integration Brings Web 2.0 Services to Mobile Phones</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/499550.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/499550.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/499550_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Trolltech has integrated its Qt cross-platform development framework with WebKit, the web browser technology used in Apple's iPhone and millions of Nokia smartphones. The integration of Qt and WebKit will enable mobile operators and handset manufacturers to create a customer experience that enriches mobile phone applications with live web content. Google Earth and iTunes are examples of such services currently available on the desktop. With Trolltec's Qt WebKit Integration, these type of applications - along with services such as social networking, instant messaging and real-time financial updates - can also be delivered to mobile phones.]]></description></item><item><title>Netconcepts Introduces GravityStream 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/499551.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/499551.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/499551_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Netconcepts announced the launch of GravityStream 2.0 - a powerful enterprise level automated natural search advertising platform for online retailers. GravityStream 2.0 automatically converts a retailer's millions of website pages into optimized landing pages to match its branded products with a consumer's generic queries. Since consumers conduct approximately 40 times more niche searches than branded ones, this capability gives retailers a major competitive advantage in answering generic searches with their own website landing page results.]]></description></item><item><title>Vitria Brings the Power of Web 2.0 to BPM</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/499361.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/499361.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/499361_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Vitria announced a Web 2.0 BPM suite that empowers business users to directly model, manage, monitor and optimize their business processes -- Vitria's M3O. Business analysts can now model and execute business processes in a rich web-based environment in direct collaboration with their IT counterparts, significantly reducing the development cycle, saving companies millions of dollars and enabling a truly agile enterprise.]]></description></item><item><title>Ulitzer to Launch with OpenID</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/498449.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/498449.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/498449_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and Verisign have all become the OpenID Foundation's first corporate board members, giving a push to the seven-month-old group's ideas about portable web identities or OpenIDs and how personal information is shared online, something that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have all caught flak for.  OpenID is a free decentralized sign-on technology that eliminates the need for multiple user names across Internet sites and is supposed to give people more control over their digital identities and what exactly is shared. There are so far 350 million OpenID-enabled URLs in existence. Microsoft has donated legal resources to the cause.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft-Yahoo! - Three Reactions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/498574.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/498574.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/498574_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[My first reaction to the news that Microsoft wants to absorb Yahoo! was 'of course.' After all, Microsoft has not managed to stop Google from becoming the only technology player that matters. Microsoft has not stopped Google from becoming the only player whose strategy is the center of the universe. Microsoft held the coveted position as the company around which everyone planned his strategy for two decades. Now it's Google.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft-Yahoo! - Around the Bid in Eighty Blogs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/498564.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/498564.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/498564_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Live by the Web, die by the Web - we look at what the blogosphere is saying about Microsoft's $44.6BN offer. Among blogs mentioned are those by David Kirkpatrick, Patty Seybold, Mark Anderson, Jon Fortt, and Marc Andreesen.]]></description></item><item><title>Web 2.0 Solution Speeds Assistance to Low- and Middle-Income Citizens Most in Need</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/497142.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/497142.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/497142_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[OpSource announced that Nets to Ladders (N2L) has selected OpSource On-Demand to deliver its groundbreaking Benefits Enrollment Network (BENtm). By delivering this innovative Web application with OpSource, N2L has gained the critical reliability and security it needs to help social services organizations transform the lives of America's working poor through easily accessible and cost-effective benefits enrollment and savings-assistance processes.]]></description></item><item><title>Vitria Brings Web 2.0 to Business Process Management</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/496317.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/496317.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/496317_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Vitria Technology has announced a Web 2.0 BPM suite that enables business users to model, manage, monitor, and optimize their business processes - Vitria's M3O. Business analysts can model and execute business processes in a Web-based environment in direct collaboration with their IT counterparts.]]></description></item><item><title>MySpace Developer Platform Site Launches</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/496143.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/496143.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/496143_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We are committed to lowering the barrier to entry for developers around the world to build a more collaborative and dynamic Internet,' said Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-founder of MySpace, 'while empowering our members to take control of their online presence in new and exciting ways.'  DeWolfe was speaking as MySpace today announced the launch of the MySpace Developer Platform Site, which he described as 'a place for developers to connect and learn about, build, test, and deploy MySpace applications.']]></description></item><item><title>Adopting Web 2.0 into the Enterprise</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/494578.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/494578.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/494578_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Within the past few years, Web 2.0 has become a major technology trend, dramatically impacting the way consumers interact with information and applications. This consumer trend is now extending into the enterprise; however, businesses have been more reluctant than consumers to adopt these new technologies.]]></description></item><item><title>eZ Publish Resolves MIT Challenge</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/495039.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/495039.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/495039_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After a process of careful evaluation, eZ Publish from eZ Systems was selected to help the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Controller's Office meet its primary objectives - to provide easy-to-find, relevant information for the MIT user community, and to offer a secure, efficient, user-friendly tool for content maintainers to control the website's contents and design.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Bids $44.6BN for Yahoo!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/494428.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/494428.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/494428_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['The combination of these two great teams would enable us to jointly deliver a broad range of new experiences to our customers that neither of us would have achieved on our own,' said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, as the Redmond giant announced today that it has proposed to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion.]]></description></item><item><title>Is This the Birth Of Web 3.0?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/464335.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/464335.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/464335_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Is Web 3.0 yet another buzzword, or is it a real turnaround in our industry? Web 1.0 was the good old web of the 1990s. In those times, all client-side changes were the result of a server round-trip. The Internet was ramping up in popularity. Web 2.0 has been a little more than just a technological evolution.]]></description></item><item><title>John Evdemon&apos;s Top Ten Predictions for 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/493338.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/493338.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/493338_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Many so-called 'architecture astronauts' have been writing about multi-tenancy as if it's something shiny and new. Multi-tenancy has been around in one form or another for decades. As hardware costs continue to fall expect to see more organizations opt for a virtualization approach to enable multi-tenancy capabilities, thereby avoiding the complexities , costs and risks associated with a ?multi-tenant aware? solution.]]></description></item></channel></rss>