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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Recent Articles and Publications
C. Wei: "The Business Value of Web 2.0 for Enterprises", Web 2.0 Journal, 23 Feb 2007 (this article also appeared on Enterprise Open Source Magazine and Java Developer Journal);
C. Wei, R. Gonda: "Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Some Classic Examples", Web 2.0 Journal, 23 Feb 2007 (this article ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
The “Same Origin Policy” is at the core of browser’s security model. Under the “Same Origin Policy”, a web resource can only interact with another web resource if and only if both resources are from the same origin. However, “Cross site scripting” and “cookie” both brings security challenges in ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
I have been involved with W3C's Web Application Format (WAF) Working Group(WG). WAF has been working on "widget" for about one year. Marcos Caceres, a smart recent PhD graduate from Australia, has been doing some good work here.
A year ago, I was neutral about WAF's widget effort, even supportive primarily ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Enterprise 2.0 Conference (http://enterprise2conf.com/) is going on here at Boston Westin Waterfront this week. Nexaweb is showing its Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform here.
Enterprise 2.0 is a term initially coined by Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee just about one year ago. His definition was much more around things like wikis, ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Introduction
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 (such as Apache XAP, Dojo, Nexaweb AjaxClient, ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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 ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
In my previous post, “Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value “, I described a “Web 2.0 Technology Stack ” that contains three building blocks: Application Client Container, Internet Messaging Bus and Enterprise Mashup Server. In this post, I’ll explain more in detail of what an ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
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 ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Web 2.0 Re-examined:
The Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
Summary
Web 2.0 is the next evolution of the web that has a new usage paradigm as well as a new technology paradigm. The former is characterized by “architecture of participation” and the latter is characterized by “architecture of partition”.
Web 2.0 is ...
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
The Business Value of Web 2.0 for Enterprises
A Better Way for Enterprise IT
Corporate IT has always been centered on application development and maintenance. Each evolution of computing, from mainframe to client/server to web 1.0, brings dramatically improved efficiency, significantly ...
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
The Rise of a Web 2.0 Technology Stack
The Fundamental Flaws of Web 1.0
Web 1.0 was designed for sharing and browsing hyper-linked documents. Its technology stack serves this purpose well. However, it was never meant for applications and has following ...
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
What Is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the next evolution of the web that has a new usage paradigm as well as a new technology paradigm. The former is characterized by “architecture of participation” and the latter is characterized by “architecture ...
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined:
The Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
Abstract
This essay re-examines web 2.0 by looking at its technology stack and impact on enterprise computing, in contrast to the common consumer-centric point of view. Categorizing the landscape into Consumer Web 2.0 and Enterprise Web 2.0, the essay establishes a web ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
I am excited that OpenAjax Alliance is officially open now. Over the last months, we have worked very hard and have made some incredible progress, depsite the heterogeneous nature of many different members representing different viewpoints. One person that definitely deserves credit for getting us to where we are today ...
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