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Companies that operate massive scale-out data centers spend 10 to 30 times more on energy]]></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 Eth]]></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,]]></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. 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DreamFace builds on the concepts of Web 2.0: Do IT Yourself,]]></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]]></description></item><item><title>Engelbart&apos;s Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/536976.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/536976.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/536976_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li]]></description></item><item><title>Early Notes on GoogleApps</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/538210.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/538210.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/538210_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 because that's what you had to do to]]></description></item><item><title>Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/538269.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/538269.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/538269_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of th]]></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]]></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. G]]></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 d]]></description></item><item><title>Mobyko Launches Next Generation Mobile AJAX Gallery</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/534410.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/534410.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/534410_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mobyko has announced the launch of its web 2.0 online photo, video and text galleries, providing a way for mobile users to manage their social media. The galleries provide a desktop application experience on the web. The implementation and depth of functionality provides a seamless use]]></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, code]]></description></item><item><title>Will &quot;Rich Internet&quot; Become Rich Man&apos;s Internet?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/532194.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/532194.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/532194_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Web is one of the most important technological as well as social/cultural developments in our life. 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When I brought up this idea to Microsoft executives a year ago during a discussion, appare]]></description></item><item><title>New IBM Software Brings Web 2.0 to Mobile Phones</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/525207.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/525207.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/525207_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM announced that the Lotus Expeditor software platform is extending desktop computing and Web 2.0 capabilities to mobile phones. Mobile phone users will be able to run several desktop-style applications like social networking, mashups and other consumer or business applications simul]]></description></item><item><title>Evolution of Web 3.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/525351.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/525351.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/525351_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 b]]></description></item><item><title>iPhone Developer Summit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/519876.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/519876.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/519876_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This session will provide attendees with an overview of the iPhone SDK, including discussion of the App Store, Apple's planned distribution channel for SDK applications. Keep in mind that the contents of the SDK and experiences while using it are covered under NDA, so be prepared for m]]></description></item><item><title>The DreamFace Developer Challenge Is Launched @ AJAX World</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/523053.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/523053.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/523053_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DreamFace Interactive launched their DreamFace Developer Challenge. DreamFace is inviting developers to download the new version of their DreamFace Web 2.0 Framework for creating Enterprise 2.0 Mashups, also announced at AJAXWorld, and to build their own DreamFace DataWidgets for submi]]></description></item><item><title>DreamFace Interactive Launches &apos;Outsider&apos; at AJAX World</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/522905.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/522905.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/522905_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DreamFace Interactive announced the immediate availability of 'Outsider,' a new version of their DreamFace Web 2.0 Framework for creating Enterprise 2.0 Composite Applications and Mashups. DreamFace builds on the major concepts of Web 2.0: Do IT Yourself, Personalization, and Sharing a]]></description></item><item><title>Best User Experience and How to Build Application UI with AJAX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/490502.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/490502.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/490502_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Designing a state of the art user interface (UI) in a very visual application that is managing a lot of elements posed significant challenge due to the nature of the application: virtualizing and running entire data centers through a browser.]]></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. 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Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built]]></description></item><item><title>Possible Solutions to Web Security Issues</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.web2journal.com/read/518794.htm</guid><link>http://www.web2journal.com/read/518794.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://www.web2journal.com/read/518794_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The 'Same Origin Policy' is at the core of browser's security model. Under the 'Same Origin Policy', a web resource can only interact with another web resource if and only if both resources are from the same origin. However, 'Cross site scripting' and 'cookie' both brings security chal]]></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. 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