http://ajax.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Web 2.0 News Desk Copyright 2008 AJAX & RIA JOURNAL Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:14:00 GMT AJAX & RIA JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/600205.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/600205.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:30:00 GMT AccuRev announced a new AJAX-based Web Interface and a native integration with Microsoft Windows Explorer for its process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution. These new capabilities make it easy to integrate every knowledge worker into the development process and offer new ways to share information. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/600128.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/600128.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:45:00 GMT The number of subscribers using mobile Internet services will rise from 577 million currently, to top 1.7bn by 2013, spurred by demand for collaborative applications known collectively as 'Web 2.0', and greater 2.5/3G penetration. Established mobile players face increasing competition from web-based brands and will have to adapt their commercial strategies to accommodate greater collaboration with other members of the value chain, if future revenue growth in the mobile Web 2.0 space is to be achieved. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/585189.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/585189.htm Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:45:00 GMT According to a recent survey of 500 social networkers across Europe, 32% of social networkers believe mobiles will be used to alert users to friends or family in the vicinity. 17% believe they will be used to take lessons and lectures. Dating is the least popular, with only 5% saying mobiles will be used for pre-date screening. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/583760.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/583760.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:45:00 GMT IBM announced IBM Mashup Center will be hosted as a free trial on the Web with which non-technical business people can use to experiment and build customized mashups following the success of early corporate adopters Boeing Corporation and Carrefour Group. On schedule for mid-year delivery, the IBM Mashup Center allows business people to create situational applications, or mashups, by remixing information from anywhere to gain business insight and do their jobs smarter and more effectively. Using IBM's mashup technology, even non-technical users will be able to exploit standards and Web-based technology to gain access to myriad information, such as Web sites and feeds, spreadsheets, databases, applications, unstructured text from an email, video, audio and other information on the Web, and make sense of it all in minutes. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/575763.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/575763.htm Sat, 24 May 2008 15:30:00 GMT BigSpeed Computing announced the release of BigSpeed Secure Socket Library 3.0. BigSpeed Secure Socket Library is an ActiveX control that simplifies and accelerates the development of proprietary communication solutions over the Internet. It implements a flexible message-oriented protocol on top of a single TCP connection with on-the-fly data scrambling. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564289.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/564289.htm Wed, 21 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT Research and Markets has announced the addition of 'Web 2.0 Server and Push Technology Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014' to their offering. Advertising budgets have not been directly connected to the computer and technology before the Web 2.0 companies started attracting advertising dollars. The massive reach of Google has attracted to advertising dollars into the computer industry. Even thought the proportion of total advertising spending on Internet advertising is relatively low, the impact on the computer industry is large. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/572953.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/572953.htm Wed, 21 May 2008 07:45:00 GMT Force10 Networks announced that Etsy has deployed the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and the S-Series family of access switches to increase the performance and reliability of its online marketplace for handmade arts and crafts. The scalability and resiliency of the Force10 solution enables Etsy to support millions of customer page views and transactions while providing the capability to seamlessly expand as more than 50,000 new buyers join the marketplace each month. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/495964.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/495964.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 06:15:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559557.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/559557.htm Mon, 05 May 2008 14:30:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/551155.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/551155.htm Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:00:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547848.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547848.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547237.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/547237.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:45:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/545462.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/545462.htm Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:30:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/542955.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/542955.htm Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:15:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/539309.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/539309.htm Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:45:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/537188.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/537188.htm Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:15:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/534717.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/534717.htm Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:45:00 GMT “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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/534075.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/534075.htm Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:45:00 GMT '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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/525351.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/525351.htm Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:45:00 GMT Web 3.0 is a different way of building applications and interacting on the web. The core model of web 3.0 states that entire World Wide Web will be seen as a single database. Many tools are being developed through which interactivity between different websites with different data can be enhanced. Prediction is that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as web applications which are pieced together. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/519408.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/519408.htm Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:15:00 GMT '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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/518983.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/518983.htm Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:30:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/518524.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/518524.htm Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:00:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/516792.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/516792.htm Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/516841.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/516841.htm Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/515609.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/515609.htm Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:30:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/513907.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/513907.htm Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:45:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/510235.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/510235.htm Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:30:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/509872.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/509872.htm Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:45:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/509410.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/509410.htm Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:30:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/507405.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/507405.htm Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:15:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490190.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490190.htm Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:15:00 GMT As more traditional sites adopt Web 2.0 technologies including AJAX, Web Services, SOA and PHP to perform online transactions one thing is certain--- these new technologies bring security issues and ignoring them could lead to serious breaches. Watchfire will demonstrate and discuss the most common Web 2.0 attack vectors, analyze the specific security issues of AJAX, especially cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and cross-site scripting (CSS), and explain techniques for exploiting and protecting web services including secure coding practices and how to properly secure web applications. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490288.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/490288.htm Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:45:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/505096.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/505096.htm Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:15:00 GMT 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). http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499550.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499550.htm Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499551.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499551.htm Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499361.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/499361.htm Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:15:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/498449.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/498449.htm Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:30:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/498564.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/498564.htm Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/497142.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/497142.htm Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:45:00 GMT 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. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/496317.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/496317.htm Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:45:00 GMT 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.