After writing a recent post about thinking outside the (browser) box, I started thinking about the rapid rate by which things are changing. A year ago, most web developers had to think about Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, and perhaps WAP for mobile devices and widget develo

Facebook recently acquired Parakey. Congrats to Joe and Blake, two of the original co-conspirators behind the skunkworks project now known as Firefox. Joe is also known for Firebug, and for his recent work on iUI, a lightweight tool for building simple iPhone apps. While the Facebook p

Zoho, one of those off-brand online office applications wannabes that dreams of putting Microsoft out of business and heading off Google, has put some of its free widgetry on Facebook, the social networking site, via a Facebook-embedded widget, a move that might prove to be quite cleve

The Q2 profits that Yahoo reported Tuesday were shaky, down year-over-year from $164 million to $161 million, and its second-half forecasts were limp, which might explain why CEO Terry Semel bailed. Semel's replacement Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang promised a new strategic plan in a hund

'It takes a village,' said Cynergy vice president Dave Wolf (pictured) most recently at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, 'to build an engineering team capable of writing world-class Rich Internet Applications.' You cannot create the right atmosphere in a 'cubicle farm,' he conten

Ever since the term was first coined in 2004, Web 2.0 has generated an incredible amount of interest and momentum around Internet services. Web 2.0 services empower users to combine all relevant information into a single location so they can be more productive in their work environment

The single-day, multi-track Real-World Java Seminar will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 13. Produced by SYS-CON Events, this is the largest Java developer event on the East Coast, and features a business track as well as two technical tracks. All attendees will ha

ICEsoft Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise AJAX solutions, announced the availability of ICEfaces 1.6.0, the newest release of ICEsoft's flagship AJAX development environment. Among its other improvements, ICEfaces 1.6.0 offers complete integration with JBoss Seam 1.2.1 GA,

Vertex Logic delivers Rich Internet Web 2.0 solutions that are especially targeted towards community-collaboration and rich user interfaces with images. The company has successfully delivered solutions such as 1) An online Design Tool for PsPrint.com. It is an example of our media ric

With the next major release of Eclipse, codenamed Europa, available on eclipse.org, Innoopract, an Eclipse specialist and provider of the Yoxos Eclipse Distribution, announced a new portal that simplifies the process for creating and downloading custom Eclipse downloads.

Can afford to take just one day off, get out of your cubicle and see what other people up to these days? Is J2EE still in favor? What's this ESB is about? Have you even heard of using Flex as a Web front end of your Java applications? Do not miss an event in NYC this Monday, that is cr

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., a provider of a standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, has announced that the SBE Group, a global electronics service and logistics management provider headquartered in France, has successfully deployed i

Compuware Corporation was recognized as a leader by Forrester Research in its June 21, 2007, Forrester Wave report titled: 'The Forrester Wave: Appliance-Based End User Experience Monitoring, Q2 2007.' Compuware Vantage received the highest current offering score and was described by F

Nexaweb Technologies, a provider of a standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, has unveiled Web2SOA ? a newly formed Enterprise Web 2.0 & SOA Ecosystem Program designed to help customers capitalize on their SOA initiatives and deliver

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., a provider of a standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, has announced a number of strong supporters from its System Integrator, OEM, and ISV partner network for Nexaweb's new Web2SOA Program.

I-Pond, Web 2.0 initiative to be launched by BigPond, is a new way to access your world on the Web - quickly, easily and all from one page. I-Pond provides a new way to access your world on the Web quickly, easily and all from one page. Get your own personal page with quick access to t

'Apps on a Plane delivers what others are promising and then some,' Etelos President and CEO Danny Kolke said. 'This isn't just one Application that is built to synchronize. The true power of Apps on a Plane is that it enables any Web-based Application to perform without a live Interne

StrikeIron Inc., a provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), facilitating the consumption and distribution of live data over the Web, is co-sponsoring a Business Mashup Challenge for developers attending Mashup Camp 4. IBM is the main sponsor of the Challenge alongside secondary sponsors S

Last week I had a meeting with a serial entrepreneur who's working on a new company whose product is a calendar for social networks, or a social network of calendars, depending on which thread you pick up. It's basically a good idea, a no-brainer, because time and networking relate to

Yahoo has dumped its CEO Terry Semel--regarded lately as a main barrier to progress and thereby preventing the company from cutting Google-addressing partnerships and acquisition bids. Goodness knows Microsoft might be on the phone right now. The surprise news hit right after the marke

In the early days of the Web, we were thrilled when we could find addresses and phone numbers of commercial establishments. As more sophisticated Web sites started using databases behind the scenes, we came to expect a page that included all the addresses for each branch of a chain in

Adobe has delivered itself of a public beta of Flex 3, a free open source cross-platform framework for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) except they don't necessarily have to run on the Internet. The Flex 3 drop includes a companion beta of the widgetry code named Apollo, now

ITerating, a free Wiki-based software guide covering open source, commercial, and hosted software, has added a Feature Matrix that allows users to dynamically create customized, side-by-side feature comparisons of software solutions within seconds. Users can use the feature matrices to

SYS-CON Events has created a hands-on, immersive learning experience for all Web developers who want to know the how, what, and why of the tools and concepts behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), the popular user-interface approach to creating Rich Internet Applications. AJAXW

OpenAjax Alliance has been growing well with over 70 members. The initial OpenAjaxHub received immediate community response - most are positive and a few responses were negative but turned out to be very helpful. Over ten Ajax offerings demonstrated support for OpenAjaxHub already (suc

Now that collaborative, decentralized development is the norm, how do you harness the ability to 'mashup' data sources? What's happening in the industry? What's the motivation for a business to start serving mashups from the 'long tail' of the Web?

SYS-CON.TV has invited me to participate in the live TV broadcast 'RIA Shootout.' This panel will discuss variety of tools and techniques available for developing rich Internet applications. If you are not sure if RIA is for you or what software platform is the best fit for your needs,

Nexaweb unveiled a new ISV and OEM partner program. Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) are under intense pressure from customers and competitors to give their applications a more 'user-friendly, Web-like' interface and to find new, less-expens

Here we go again. While the paint is still wet on this new Web 2.0 stuff, many SOA vendors and large analysts firms are calling their market SOA 2.0. It's one of the silliest things I've heard in a long while, and both the analysts and vendors who use this term should be ashamed of the

Today is the fourth annual MIT CIO Symposium. The weather could have been better and parking could have been much better (my house is within 25 minutes walking distance from MIT. I drove instead and spent 30 minutes looking for parking) - but the conference is fairly well attended. My

The reason for much of the chatter about mashups and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs) arises from the fact that mashups, and Web 2.0 in general, are primarily social phenomena, while SOBAs, and SOA generally, are primarily business phenomena: the 'B' in 'SOBA' indicates t

We are at an inflection point in the SOA roll out: with enterprises developing infrastructure and deploying services, the attention is now turning to how to deliver the services to the end user, increase service reuse, and deal with governance. The last mile of SOA needs to be bridged

'It's clear that many of the services we consume and manage going forward will be services that exist outside of the enterprise, such as subscription services from guys like Salesforce.com, or perhaps emerging Web services marketplaces,' says David S. Linthicum, who will be giving a se

The reason for much of the chatter about mashups and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBAs) arises from the fact that mashups, and Web 2.0 in general, are primarily social phenomena, while SOBAs, and SOA generally, are primarily business phenomena: the 'B' in 'SOBA' indicates t

The advent of Web 2.0 has upset the Internet in some interesting ways, particularly with regard to user experience and participation, the creation, derivation, and relevance of metadata, and the ability to deliver new functionality by leveraging existing sites, thereby accelerating tim

Anyway, I think this is a pretty slick idea. A company new to the whole 'Web 2.0' thing can simply go to Intel, get their shiny 'Web 2.0' box, and get off the ground. At least that's the partyline. The key to Web 2.0 isn't the technology enabling it, its the people using it. If your or

IBM has announced its next generation WebSphere Portal, which includes comprehensive Web 2.0 tools and targeted customizations, known as business accelerators, that speed the deployment of common portal solutions while maintaining the flexibility desired by customers. Also available la

I am not as familiar with west coast VCs and have not run into Peter Rip, a general partner at Crosslink Capital. In general, looking at his blog EarlyStageVC, Peter is quite well informed and intelligent which is why I was highly surprised to see a post from him on March 21 2007 sayin

DRM is sometimes called an enabling technology, in that it is supposed to enable new business models. But it is really a disabling technology. As DRM fails, there have been suggestions that the name be changed to something that includes the word enabling; give it a better image; someth

The Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow you to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects you're working on now and can serve as a roadmap for your furth