Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
On October 31 2006, while we are all enjoying trick and treat on this Halloween day (a beautifully sunny day in Boston), there are some very nice treats in the web 2.0 space too:
JotSpot, a wiki-based collaboration software and service company, was acquired by Google on October 31 2006. The ...
Posted in google, software business model | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Back four years ago (2002), a good friend who works at Microsoft told me confidentially that Microsoft is working on something called "XAML". "Very similar to Nexaweb - watch out", he said. To the contrary, I was actually thrilled. Regardless of what it means from a competitive perspective, XAML validates ...
Posted in Main Page, google | 9 Comments »
Friday, October 13th, 2006
What is Internet Messaging Bus? Internet Messaging Bus is an enhanced web communication layer built on top of HTTP that supports two-way, bi-directional communications as well as reliable messaging.
We all know HTTP, the communication layer of Web 1.0. Recently, we also started to realize some of the limitations of HTTP. ...
Posted in WebDev, web 2.0 | 16 Comments »
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
OpenAjax Alliance had its 2nd face to face meeting on Oct 5th and 6th at Sun Microsystem’s office in Santa Clara, CA after the AjaxWorld Conference. While paying close attention to confidentiality concerns, I feel comfortable sharing some of my thoughts and reactions. In particular, I am sharing some of my thoughts on the ...
Posted in WebDev | 5 Comments »
Saturday, October 7th, 2006
At AjaxWorld Conference and OpenAjax Alliance back to back meetings in Santa Clara, CA this week, it has been hard not to think about the developer community and how Web 2.0 is impacting it today.
Web development can be roughly divided into two camps:
Web site development;
Web application development;
"Web site development" is ...
Posted in WebDev | 3 Comments »
