Well before the advent of AJAX, I build javascript to monitor a user's mouse trail and keypresses over a website. It would take this information from event handlers, and serialize it into a cookie, which would be read by the next page they visited on the site, stored, and could then be played back easily through an admin interface.

If you've been assuming this isn't possible, or in use (the company I built it for still uses it, I believe), you're missing a point here.

Marina Fisher, enterprise architect for Sun Microsystems, and Laurence Moroney, director of technology evangelism for Mainsoft, co-authors (with Ray Lai and Sonu Sharma) of the new book, Java EE and .Net Interoperability (Prentice Hall PTR, 2006).

Marina Fisher, enterprise architect for Sun Microsystems, and Laurence Moroney, director of technology evangelism for Mainsoft, co-authors (with Ray Lai and Sonu Sharma) of the new book, Java EE and .Net Interoperability (Prentice Hall PTR, 2006).

I am sittig in Santa Clara listening to Dion Hinchcliffe here in the Convention Center. Great quote (he just this momrnt said this): "The neat stuff about AJAX is that it makes Web services do something for you while you're still looking at the page..."

It seems clearer these days that highly general purpose software like simple e-mail, blogs, wikis, and other social software can enable and form the foundation of almost uncounted open ended and adaptable collaboration scenarios.

I often get asked for example of this happening in the enterprise, and while negative examples often come to mind first (pyramid schemes via e-mail, creative phishing attempts, and so on), some of the real emergent Enterprise 2.0-like scenarios I can cite are really back out on the Web.