Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
BusinessWeek 2.0 recently awarded Jonathan Schwartz one of the "Ten People Who Don't Matter" (http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/10dontmatter.biz2/index.htm). Schwartz wrote a response in his blog (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20060625), expressing his gratitude for being honored together with Steve Balmer and Linus Torvalds. The blog's title is "60 days into the Job", referring to the fact that he has ...
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
XAP is up and running at Apache (under Apache Incubator)...
It's initial website is at: http://incubator.apache.org/xap. For those who are really brave, feel free to participate xap-dev@incubator.apache.org for discussions/suggestions/comments, or dig into source repositary.
Why XAP and What Is The Value of Declarative Ajax?
XAP represents a new way of developing, deploying ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
A friend of mine mentioned a list of companies after reading my previous post (Web 2.0 Movers and Shakers):1. 1-800-FREE-411 (http://www.jinglenetworks.com/): raised $400K A round + $26M B Round, located in CA. Interesting concept yet quite simple - My qestions are: can anybody explain why not TellMe Networks, 1-800-411-Metro, etc ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
At the "heyday" of the Internet gold rush, new companies bubbled up on a daily basis trying to revolutionize pet market, toy store, furniture, gay/lesbian commmunity, grocercy, CD distribution... To the point that everyone was scratching their head - Is there anything left to do at all?
Yes, we have tried a ...
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Wah, Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft to focus on giving away his money...Though the transition will take two years to happen, this signals the ending of an era. What would microsoft be without Gates? MSFT is officially becoming a different kind of company. Over the last 30 years, Microsoft's capability ...
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Sunday, June 11th, 2006
The conventional wisdom is that Sun is the only company who doesn't know how to make money from Java. Depsite being the inventor of Java and the host of JavaOne annually, the companies who make money from Java are IBM, Oracle and BEA, etc. Though Jonathan Schwarts claims that "I ...
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Anil Sharma wrote a fairly good comment about some aspects of web 2.0, in particular, related to collaboration. I think this is a key area that web 2.0 can help make a big difference in a business context.
Google launched spreadsheet (http://www.google.com/googlespreadsheets/try_out.html) - do you honestly think google plan go compete ...
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Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Tim Oreilly wrote one of the first articles trying to define "web 2.0" (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html). This article is influential in helping establishing the concept of web 2.0, but it is very consumer focused and does not get into what web 2.0 is for business.
Dion Hinchcliffe maintains a fairly good blog about ...
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
The website is at http://www.openajaxalliance.org/
It will be coming soon.
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