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AJAX Photo Sharing Site Zoto Goes Open Source
ReadWriteWeb, CA - Zoto is a highly regarded photo sharing site with lots of AJAX, social features and blogging plug-ins. It's been getting good write ups since Om Malik … |
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Roberts clinches Ajax deal
Kickoff, South Africa - BidVest Wits reserve goalkeeper Sean Roberts has clinched a career boosting move to Ajax Cape Town, securing a four-year contract which comes into effect … |
Microsoft touts Dynamic IT for boosting developer productivity
InfoWorld, CA - Net AJAX technology, for AJAX development, and collaboration via Visual Studio and the Microsoft Expression Studio tool. Silverlight, Zander said, "makes it … |
Being able to have your documents stored up in the cloud, but also saved away for the time where you don’t have connectivity is important, and today the Google Docs team supports local service via Google Gears.
I have been using this ability for awhile, and I have personally seen a couple of side effects:
Having things continue to just work as you go in and out of service is a great feeling. You trust the system more.
If you are still new to Gears, Ben Lisbakken has published a tutorial that he has as a screencast. Take a peak and get up to speed.
Scotiabank launches Web 2.0 pilot project
Financial Post, Canada - … world's largest companies in a drive to attract innovative talent and encourage employees to collaborate through the adoption of a new Web 2.0 platform. … |
Ten years ago today, the code dropped from Netscape to the Mozilla project. Mitchell Baker has written up her thoughts as she looks back the last 10 years, and tries to look at the future.
People are celebrating too. Air Mozilla will have a live show with host Asa Dotzler, and guests Mitchell Baker, Brendan Eich, Mike Shaver, and Chris Hofmann.
And then we have jwz. Now the original Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online, and he has fun stories of what he had to do to get it working with the old browsers.
Do you remember why home1.mcom.com through home32.mcom.com exist?
home1.mcom.com through home32.mcom.com exist because the early browsers did client-side load-balancing: the browser itself had a special case where if it was loading “home.mcom.com” it would actually pick a random number from 1 to 32 and instead load “homeN.mcom.com”! Those were physically different servers in the Netscape data center.
Do you remember the behavioral difference the browsers exhibited when they were talking to a Netscape web server?
When loading pages from a Netscape server, the caption next to the URL field in the browser would change from “Location” to “Netsite”.
Congrats to all of the open source hackers who have made “Mozilla” successful.
Adobe Joins Linux Foundation With Focus on Linux for Web 2.0 …
FOXBusiness - Adobe is joining the LF to collaborate on the advancement of Linux as a leading platform for rich Internet applications (RIA) and Web 2.0 technologies. … |
Hearing held for accused in Ajax killing
Northumberland News, Canada - Troy Johnson-Lee, 23, is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 19-year-old Orin Felix of Ajax and attempted murder in an attack on … |