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Rich Internet to Soon Replace Static Pages

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Articles, Web20 — Chris Cornutt at 8:43 am on Tuesday, August 1, 2006

According to the new article on the Tekrati.com site today, ZapThink is suggesting that rich internet applications based around the technologies of Ajax, Flash and Java will be replacing any and all static web sites/applications and portals.

Demand for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and more sophisticated user interaction is increasing dramatically, and enterprise spending on RIA applications will surpass $500 million by 2011, according to ZapThink. The analysts say enhancements to six types of business applications are helping drive RIA spending: high-transaction and event-driven Internet applications, next-generation portals, enhanced business intelligence solutions, application modernization, and Service composition or "mashup" solutions.

They talk about a report ZapThink has put out, showing that an end user experience with Ajax-enabled functionality, a nice interface, and good performance won out over a more traditional page structure. The RIA market is divided up into three submarkets looking at delivering components, environments, and extensions to help make the creation of these interfaces easier. They also mention four "primary means" of implementing these applications:

  • Adobe Flash virtual machine-based approaches
  • browser-based approaches that use JavaScript, XML, and other technologies (Ajax)
  • approaches that use Java applets or ActiveX controls
  • custom-developed Java or .NET clients

What is Mobile Web 2.0?

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Web20, Mobile — Chris Cornutt at 8:35 am on Monday, July 31, 2006

On the Web 2.0 Journal today, there’s a new article from Ajit Jaokar asking for a real definition of what “mobile web 2.0″ really means.

I see Web 2.0 as the Intelligent web or ‘Harnessing Collective Intelligence.’ Mobile Web 2.0 extends the principle of ‘Harnessing Collective Intelligence’ to restricted devices. The seemingly simple idea of extending Web 2.0 to mobile Web 2.0 has many facets.

He lists out these facets - restricted devices, building for these devices, and what characteristics can be learned from them. He defines restricted devices in several ways including having one or more of these characteristics - easily carried, battery driven, limited input means, but not wearable.

He gives the iPod as a reference to show a good web/local PC model for mobile devices, a PC-powered interface to provide mobile content to a portable, easy to use device. This is more of a static idea than most think of when they think “mobile web 2.0″. More often, they think of methods to use things such as Ajax in a cellphone’s web browser. He suggests, though, that this is not “mobile web 2.0″ - it lacks the user generated compontent.

DealsPl.us Combines Web 2.0 and Community Shopping

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Showcase, Web20 — Chris Cornutt at 8:16 am on Thursday, July 20, 2006

What do you get when you combine one part Digg, some of the best, cheapest products out there and a little splash of Web 2.0? You get DealsPlu.us, a new social shopping site with a user-controlled rating system similar to Digg’s pioneering format.

Our mission is simple, to save you time and money. We offer a distinctive place where people can share hot-deals from anywhere within the Internet world. Our feature allows people to know what the most hot-deals are and what people think about the deals.

The concept is simple (as some of the best ones are) - users are presented with deals on a wide range of merchandise, from audio/video options to home and garden offerings. Each has a plus button (”+”) that can be used to vote if you think the deal is good or not. This then allows for users to come along and discover the best deals as voted on by the rest of the site’s community. Clicking on this button also stores the deal (as a bookmark) to the users profile page for later review.

There’s even RSS feeds that you can subscribe to to get the latest deals as they come in as well as the latest coupons and offers the site recieves. Users can also submit deals that they might come across - espeically useful for those “one day only” deals lots of stores offer.



A Web 2.0 WTF from TheDailyWTF

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Editorial, Web20 — Chris Cornutt at 7:54 am on Thursday, July 20, 2006

Just a quick one to add a little humor into your Ajax coding experience from The Daily WTF:

The story tells the tale of an effort to get a new CMS at a company, one that was a bit more Web 2.0. Of course, the maker of the CMS didn’t quite think of the implications of those with less than stellar connections and, well, you’ll just need to read to understand the complete “makes me want to slap someone stupid” moment that comes later.

Enjoy!

Ajaxians invade RailsConf 2006

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Conference, Ruby, Web20 — Rob Sanheim at 12:01 am on Friday, June 23, 2006

Well, at least I'll be heading to RailsConf tomorrow morning, and attempting to live blog as much ajax related content as possible. Ajaxian-in-training and coworker Jim Halberg will be there, as well. If Dion can recover from his twenty hours of flying, he might also make a celebrity appearance. If any readers are heading down and would like to hit up a bar or club, just holler at us.

As for Ajax sessions, I'll be attending Rails, Ajax and Universal Design, Lazlo on Rails, and possibly Justin's Ajax on Rails. Are there other sessions you would like to see coverage of from Ajaxian? If we cover non-Ajax specific sessions here, will you be pissed off? Will we ever fix the comment system?

We put these pressing questions to you, the Ajax community.