Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Category: Business
The value of a college education in software engineering fields has always been up for debate. While the early days of our profession nearly required some form of academic exposure to so much as interact with a computer, the microcomputer revolution of course changed all that, and people have been debating how to gauge the Read the rest…
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Category: Advertising, Business
Not for the first time, alternative models to page views are in the news. This time, comScore has announced a new “visits” metric. “AJAX” is cited as one of the motivations. comScore Media Metrix today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at top online properties and categories for February 2007 and introduced a Read the rest…
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Category: Business, Calendar
, Email
, Google
, Office
, Showcase
From the You-Know-When-Ajax-Has-Gone-Mainstream-Dept, Google announced today it will be offering businesses a premium service for its key productivity applications, at $50/user/year. The package includes: Access to office-style applications – Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Page Creator. No presentation package yet – perhaps Google should acquire S5 :-). Access to communication applications – GMail (@your-own-domain), Google Read the rest…
Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Category: Business, Microsoft
, Usability
If you’ve read any tech news in the past 24 hours, you’ll now be familiar with the meeting Bill Gates held among influential bloggers, ahead of next year’s Mix conference. Aside from learning what’s on Bill’s Zune, we get to hear his views on the future of web apps, thanks to a question from Liz Read the rest…
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
Category: Business
Steve Rubel says page view metrics have four years to live. The page view does not offer a suitable way to measure the next generation of web sites. These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page – like Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
In CNN Money, Om Malik talks about the shift to online apps. The browser is the new OS. Yes, we’ve heard this before, and if you’re quietly groaning right about now, I can understand why. It’s been 10 years since a barefoot Marc Andreessen graced the cover of Time magazine and trumpeted how the browser Read the rest…
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Category: Business
This survey by IT JobsWatch shows that things are looking up for Javascript programmers. Over the last year, the average salary for Brit Ajax slingers has gone up 33% from £29,375 ($55,853) to £39,228 ($74,588). I’m sure these numbers are representative of trends in many other countries. Based on my own project experience over the Read the rest…
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Category: Business
Ajax is so hot that a company that doesn’t even do Ajax but instead gives away an open source Flash-based application platform for free, can raise additional venture capital funding as an Ajax application tool vendor. Laszlo Systems, the original developer of OpenLaszlo, the leading open source platform for building and deploying advanced Ajax applications, Read the rest…
Sunday, June 4th, 2006
Ajax homepage/portal Fold.com has folded (via TechCrunch). Late last year, we were receiving at least a couple of releases a week about new Ajax homepages, so it seemed inevitable there would be some casualties in this crowded space. In some cases, it’s difficult to see how each of these products differentiate itself from the competition, Read the rest…
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
According to this post over on TechCrunch, a company called Benchmark Capital has taken a genuine interest in the Ajax desktop site Pageflakes and has even conducted a round of financing for the company. They make mention of the Netvibes seed round that took place before and how both they and Pageflakes are competing with Read the rest…
Friday, March 24th, 2006
The much-publicised AjaxWrite is only the beginning for Michael Robertson’s push into Ajax. Further to the release a couple of days ago, here’s some info on their plans: But ajaxWrite is just the start. We have a library of applications we have been working on to replace most of the standard PC software titles. Every Read the rest…
Monday, March 20th, 2006
Category: Business
The recent Audible Ajax podcast pointed out how the term “Ajax” has made its way into the upper echelons of the business world, with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others having used the term. A recent “Business 2.0” executive roundtable also covered AjaxAJAX. One particular quote that resonated well with everyone and has already started Read the rest…
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Category: Business, Games
, Mobile
Opera will be producing an official web browser for the handheld Nintendo DS platform (via Anne’s Weblog): In Opera’s agreement with Nintendo, Nintendo DS users will now be able to surf the full Internet from their systems using the Opera browser. The Opera browser for Nintendo DS will be sold as a DS card. Users Read the rest…
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
According to this new article on the Ajax Developer’s Journal today, IBM is spearheading a new effort to promote Ajax to developers all around the world – the “Open Ajax” Coalition. The Open AJAX initiative does not have a centralized structure or website, but is rather an idea that is being formally backed by BEA, Read the rest…
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
Dion Hinchcliffe makes some good points in Why Ajax Is So Disruptive. What he’s saying here is that Ajax is more than a suite of technologies, but a new way of doing things. It’s an important point, because there’s a lot of people who assume Ajax just means a fancier UI, and is not central Read the rest…
Friday, November 25th, 2005
Category: Business
A new Forbes article introduces Ajax’s benefits to business in a novel way: what’s offered by the A, the J, and the X. … It’s Asynchronous! Writely‘s Sam Schillace: “In terms of using asynchronous processing, the most significant is to send small updates back to the server from the editor as the user is working Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
