The Web 2.0 Journal News Desk keeps you up to speed with all that's happening in the world of the read/write Web and all its mushrooming new facets - from social applications, tagging, wikis, mash-ups, and image-sharing to "Advertising 2.0," podcasting, and The Writeable Web.
'We have eliminated the
current barrier to
semantic application
development,' said Ralph
Hodgson, co-founder of
TopQuadrant. 'Until now
organizations wanting to
experience the benefits
of semantic technology
had to first build their
own infrastructure for
semantic applications.
This is
Nexaweb Technologies,
provider of the leading
standards-based platform
for building and
deploying Enterprise Web
2.0 (EW2.0) applications,
today announced it has
been selected for the
fifth annual SD TIMES 100
-- a list of the
companies and
organizations that
demonstrated the greatest
Today I'm speaking with
Ben Forta, the technical
evangelist for Adobe. The
first thing I have to ask
you is - the acquisition
has happened, Adobe is
now controlling
ColdFusion and has taken
over everything that
Macromedia was doing, and
this is my first chance
to really speak with you
The editors and writers
at Shiny Media, a
UK-based blogging
network, announced the
award at their annual
Shiny Awards 2007 in
London. Together with
editors of the UK's
leading gadget websites,
techdigest.tv and
shinyshiny.tv, and with
input from a guest panel
made up of The Guardian,
T
Room 2.0 features a
landing page and portal a
hotel guest automatically
accesses when hooking up
to the hotel network.
From there, he can easily
navigate a range of
customized services,
which are available on
top of unlimited data
downloads and priority
bandwidth. The ?Stay in
touch? s
Newfangled Web Factory's
Web Smart Newsletter
titled Advertising 2.0,
delves into the ways in
which new web
technologies are
disrupting the
traditional adverting
process. Picking up on
the 'Long Tail' concept
made popular by Chris
Anderson's book
(www.thelongtail.com)
Advertising 2.0 d
Nexaweb Technologies,
Inc., provider of the
leading standards-based
platform for building and
deploying Enterprise Web
2.0 (EW2.0) applications,
and BlueNote Networks,
the leading provider of
Business Communications
Platforms for delivering
real-time interactive
communications as servi
Nexaweb Technologies,
Inc., provider of
theleading
standards-based platform
for building and
deploying Enterprise
Web2.0 (EW2.0)
applications, today
announced its support for
the OpenAjax Hub,a set of
criteria that will ensure
the development of an
industry standardof Ajax
technologies
Nexaweb® Technologies,
Inc., provider ofthe
leading standards-based
platform for building and
deploying EnterpriseWeb
2.0 applications, today
announced its
participation at the
'PracticalSOA for
Government' event, April
26 in Washington, DC. In
addition tosponsoring
this one-day inten
Unlike application wikis
which require
technology-savvy users
and do not address
workflow or data storage
in a database, the IBM
Developer Engagement
Service is designed to
appeal to the average
business user. It
requires no elaborate
instructions, cumbersome
download or installation
o
I've been busy working on
our Web 2.0 release so
didn't have time to
update my laptop until
now. I was generally
happy with my Ubuntu
breezy 64bit install, I
had the JDK on there,
Java worked in firefox
32bit, I could remotely
display my screen to a
projector and my broadcom
wireless c
Nexaweb Technologies,
provider of
standards-based platform
for building and
deploying Enterprise Web
2.0 (EW2.0) applications,
announced at JavaOne a
new set of product
features designed to help
Java, J2EE, Flash, Swing,
Struts, JSF, and SWT
software developers
quickly and easily build
Yes, you read the title
correctly: 'Scorpio,' the
highly anticipated eighth
major release of
ColdFusion is coming soon
to a town near you. Even
before the release of the
highly successful
ColdFusion MX 7 two years
ago, the ColdFusion team
was already hard at work
scheming, experimentin
'If you are building
mashups, the need for not
only the right data is
important, but having the
highest quality data
available is necessary to
delivery on the promise
of Web2.0,' said Bob
Brauer, CEO and President
of StrikeIron.
'StrikeIron's focus is on
delivering the highest
quality
Powered by the same world
class platform that
drives Fiorano?s other
middleware solutions, the
SMB package offers a
generous palette of
standards based service
components and data
adapters required to
build powerful business
workflows. Relying on
over a decade of
experience serving as
One of my favorite
bloggers, Paul Graham,
has published an essay
called 'Microsoft is dead
'. He starts, 'A few days
ago I suddenly realized
Microsoft was dead', and
then explains why he
thinks so. I do not think
Microsoft is dead, but...
EMC Corporation , the
world leader in
information
infrastructure solutions,
today announced the
newest versions of its
e-mail and file system
archiving software to
further simplify
management of crucial
electronically stored
information (ESI) to meet
internal and external
governance re
A couple of weeks ago I
stopped by at our
publisher's offices
(SYS-CON Media) and they
showed me our Flex book
with the correct cover,
but all pages were blank.
Yesterday, I've got an
email from them with the
words, 'Yakov your book
is ready, stop by and
pick it up'. The guys
from prod
CRMforGoogle gives a
business, large or small,
the ability to
communicate with clients,
prospects and partners
effectively and easily.
The Application is
feature rich, giving
users the ability to
automate client follow
up, manage tasks, share
schedules and manage
projects all in Google
AJAX is flying high and
AJAX toolkits are
certainly of big help.
However, I do hear from
people in the community
complain about the size
of various Ajax toolkits.
A lot of AJAX toolkits
requires hundreds of
kilobytes of download,
sometime even over
megabytes. Dylan
Schiemann from Dojo
Since our last issue,
several events have
transpired that have
significant impact for
ColdFusion developers. I
have been keeping my eye
on several trends and
have been evaluating
whether or not they
deserve focus in
ColdFusion Developer's
Journal. I've begun
blogging about these
trends
Since Web 2.0 kicked off
scarcely a day goes by
without a headline
targeting mashups and
their enablers, AJAX and
Web Services, as the next
hot Web technologies.
Mashups are Web sites
that integrate a variety
of services (e.g., news
feeds, weather reports,
maps, and traffic
conditions)
The new Dynamic Toolbar
DTX is the first toolbar
technology based on AJAX
that takes advantage of
the endless possibilities
of the Rich Internet
Application and Web 2.0.
'The new Dynamic Toolbar
DTX improves the user
experience by providing a
higher level of
interaction with users.
The
MB Technologies, the
creators of AJAX-based
Bindows software,
announced the release of
InfiView, the first
development platform for
creating interactive and
dynamic graphical AJAX
applications during
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2007 East, in New
York City. InfiView
advances the move to
Farata Systems, a leading
provider of Flex and Java
services and components
has announced
availability of the Alpha
version of the first
community site
www.myflex.org that will
become a repository for
commercial Flex
components and Eclipse
plugins developed by
independent vendors.
Andi Gutmans, who leads
the PHP Collaboration
Project and Zend product
strategy and has been a
leading contributor to
PHP since 1997 and
spearheaded the
object-oriented
improvements for PHP 5,
explained at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
East how PHP is a
cornerstone technology in
dev
AJAXWorld is a great
conference that hundrends
of people gathered here
at RooseVelt Hotel in
NYC. You can see and hear
the excitement around
this new paradigm of
computing. But once in
while, there are things
that are quite amusing.
Java vs. Microsoft WPF:
It was great to catch up
with
Designed to support the
delivery of integrated
suites of OpenLaszlo
RIAs, Laszlo Webtop
offers a consistent user
experience that is
accessible from any
web-enabled computer. The
wide-ranging appeal of
Laszlo Webtop makes it
ideal for internal or
consumer-facing corporate
deployments, v
AJAXWorld Conference --
Kapow Technologies and
Proto Software have
announced that they are
partnering to deliver
'Mashups that Matter' to
the financial services
community. Kapow
Technologies adds an API
to services ranging from
legacy apps to web-based
social media. Using Proto
to proc
In my previous article,
'Enterprise Mashup
Services: Real-World SOA
or Web 2.0 Novelties?'
(JDJ Vol. 11, Issue 12),
I discussed how a
Java-to-AJAX library such
as Direct Web Remoting
(DWR) can bridge the gap
between mashup services
implemented with
JavaScript and business
services writ
Kevin Hakman of TIBCO GI,
Charles Fiesel of
Roundarch, Jouk Pleiter
of Backbase, and Danny
Kolke of Etelos joined
Conference Chair and
Moderator Jeremy Geelan
in a lunchtime discussion
panel here at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
East devoted to the
current state of the
AJAX, Rich In
Attendees at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
East will be able to
experience a live demo of
Laszlo Webtop, a new
framework from Laszlo
Systems for delivering
multiple applications
inside an advanced
framework and window
management system. The
demo will be given next
week (March 20) by
NexawebTechnologies,
Inc., provider of the
leading standards-based
platform forbuilding and
deploying Enterprise Web
2.0 (EW2.0) applications,
todayannounced its
participation at the
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo, March19-21, 2007 at
the Roosevelt Hotel in
NYC. For the second
straight ye
Rumor has it that Google
is interested in
ThinkFree, the
HaanSoft-owned,
ad-supported, Java-based,
very Microsoft-like,
Microsoft-compatible
online office suite. It
sent its YouTube
acquisition folks in to
talk to the Korean
concern lately. At least
that's what HaanSoft's
CEO has been
In order to describe
itself as an 'open
source' company, need a
company merely be 'a
company that will help
you make the switch to
open source in your
company' - or does it
have to be one that lets
users feely download,
compile, and use the
software in question?
Where is the dividing l
Years before 'mashup' was
used as a Web term, Kapow
Technologies had been
providing Global 2000
companies with
enterprise-class
technology that uses a
unique and flexible
Web-based approach to
building composite
services and
applications. Any
application component
with a web interface
At the Gartner
Application Integration
and Web Services
Conference today, Kapow
Technologies (http://www.
kapowtech.com/), the
leading provider of
mashup solutions for the
enterprise, today
unveiled openkapow, the
industry's first software
service and developer
community designed to acc
Kapow Technologies today
announced the general
availability of version
6.2 of the Kapow Mashup
Server, a set of
patent-pending
technologies that enable
companies to collect,
connect and mashup
everything on corporate
intranets as well as the
World Wide Web.
ThinkFree, Inc.,
developer of the first
online office
productivity suite, today
announced that it has
surpassed 250,000
registered users within
its ThinkFree Online
community (http://www.thi
nkfree.com/).
Fast Search & Transfer
(OSEAX: FAST.OL) (FAST),
a leading developer of
search technologies, and
InfoSpace, Inc.
(NASDAQ:INSP), a leading
developer of mobile
platform services, today
announced a partnership
to deliver a
next-generation white
label ASP mobile search
service that will ena
About Newsfeeds / Video Feeds
Today I'm speaking with
Ben Forta, the technical
evangelist for Adobe. The
first thing I have to ask
you is - the acquisition
has happened, Adobe is
now controlling
ColdFusion and has taken
over everything that
Macromedia was doing, and
this is my first chance
to really speak with you 
Yes, you read the title
correctly: 'Scorpio,' the
highly anticipated eighth
major release of
ColdFusion is coming soon
to a town near you. Even
before the release of the
highly successful
ColdFusion MX 7 two years
ago, the ColdFusion team
was already hard at work
scheming, experimentin
A couple of weeks ago I
stopped by at our
publisher's offices
(SYS-CON Media) and they
showed me our Flex book
with the correct cover,
but all pages were blank.
Yesterday, I've got an
email from them with the
words, 'Yakov your book
is ready, stop by and
pick it up'. The guys
from prod
Since our last issue,
several events have
transpired that have
significant impact for
ColdFusion developers. I
have been keeping my eye
on several trends and
have been evaluating
whether or not they
deserve focus in
ColdFusion Developer's
Journal. I've begun
blogging about these
trends 
Since Web 2.0 kicked off
scarcely a day goes by
without a headline
targeting mashups and
their enablers, AJAX and
Web Services, as the next
hot Web technologies.
Mashups are Web sites
that integrate a variety
of services (e.g., news
feeds, weather reports,
maps, and traffic
conditions) 
The new Dynamic Toolbar
DTX is the first toolbar
technology based on AJAX
that takes advantage of
the endless possibilities
of the Rich Internet
Application and Web 2.0.
'The new Dynamic Toolbar
DTX improves the user
experience by providing a
higher level of
interaction with users.
The 
MB Technologies, the
creators of AJAX-based
Bindows software,
announced the release of
InfiView, the first
development platform for
creating interactive and
dynamic graphical AJAX
applications during
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2007 East, in New
York City. InfiView
advances the move to
Farata Systems, a leading
provider of Flex and Java
services and components
has announced
availability of the Alpha
version of the first
community site
www.myflex.org that will
become a repository for
commercial Flex
components and Eclipse
plugins developed by
independent vendors.
In my previous article,
'Enterprise Mashup
Services: Real-World SOA
or Web 2.0 Novelties?'
(JDJ Vol. 11, Issue 12),
I discussed how a
Java-to-AJAX library such
as Direct Web Remoting
(DWR) can bridge the gap
between mashup services
implemented with
JavaScript and business
services writ
