'There is a misconception that social networking is the exclusive domain of teenagers, but this analysis confirms that the appeal of social networking sites is far broader,' says a report this week by the Internet research firm comScore Media Metrix. For example, 40% of MySpace visitor...

At the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 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.

Some commentators have taken Microsoft's entry in to the Web 2.0 world as a reason for spreading doom and gloom and predicting the annihilation of small, innovative developers. I disputed this prediction and agreed with entrepreneurs Jason Fried of 37 Signals and Sridhar Vembu of Zoho....

How about if we spelt AJAX differently, asked Håkon Wium Lie, at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, so that the fundamental role played by CSS was incorporated and immortalized?

'Our new platform goes beyond current enterprise Web 2.0 technologies to help optimize and streamline the actual business activities, increasing the speed and accuracy of decision-making by business professionals,' said JackBe CEO and co-founder Luis Derechin, as JackBe used the occasi...

The first 'Power Panel' of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2006 just kicked off, with 4 industry experts led by AJAXWorld Magazine Editor-in-Chief Dion Hinchcliffe, discussing 'Web-Oriented Architecture: SOA + The Web + REST.'

The thing that delivers that rich AJAX experience is the decoupling of the technical back end from the user experience. As Bruce Sterling expressed it, AJAX is the equaivalent of 'Roller skates for the Web.' But when are roller skates dangerous? When people are still learning how to mo...

The lightweight AJAX programming model has taken the PC browser market by storm. This panel, moderated by AJAXWorld 2006 Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and with panelists including both the Father of DHTML and the Creator of the Term 'AJAX,' will look at the totality of its impact and ...

Building modern SOAs and Web 2.0 sites requires an design style that goes with the 'grain' of the Web. REST, a natural extension of HTTP created by the co-inventor of HTTP, is getting a lot of attention these days because it's easy to work with, aligns well with the Web, and is very hi...

Before starting them in on 4-5 hours developing code, Dion Hinchcliffe gave attendees at the first-ever AJAX University Bootcamp a rapid-fire overview of the fast-paced training course ahead of them. 'We're going to try everything from mashups to the depths of Dojo pub-sub,' said Hinch...

The latest person to highlight the precariousness of public understanding of Web 2.0 is one of the absolute pioneers of a richer web, Nexaweb's founder and CTO, Coach Wei. Wei's concern centers on the common misapprehension that Web 2.0 is solely a consumer phenomenon - MySpace, Flickr...

Imbibing AJAX cheek-by-jowl with Yahoo!, Sun, Intel, Nortel Networks, McAfee, and a host of other major headquarters buildings is a salutary experience. It is as if the AJAX approach, which got itself a name in San Francisco but is based on technologies spawned in the Valley and elsewh...

The AJAX wildfire is about to break out at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley, as the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo - the biggest ever tradeshow devoted to AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web 2.0 - opens its doors October 2-4. The three-day event kicks...

Mark Knopfler once said, 'I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.' Anyone with that kind of gif...

Japan knows web 2.0 - probably better than us in US. But very few people in Japan have heard of or paid attention to MySpace. Their attention is on Mixi, the biggest social networking site in Japan.

With all the noise the Web 2.0 revolutionaries are making, it's easy to ignore another &emdash; this time velvet &emdash; revolution: 'E-commerce 2.0' is coming into maturity and getting ready to relieve its now ten-plus year old predecessor. It's about time.

To make the concept of attention compelling and to prove to the consumers that their attention information is important, we need to build applications that provide useful services. And to build these applications we need a platform for the attention players to plug into. In short, we n...

In considering the 'Internet Singularity,' Mark Scrimshire has been postulating a series of guidelines or rules. He has already written about the first; here he looks at the second and third rules.

Web 2.0 is putting me back in touch with all that was good about those pre-Web days: putting me back in control, if you like. Instead of webmasters, let alone media moguls. That is why it is so fascinating to watch the players act out their parts. For example that of 'The Money-Mad Med...

All the buzz these days seems to be about websites that let users generate the content (while the site collects most or all of the revenue). From Wikis to MySpace, and Digg (and their millions of clones), all the cool kids are letting the users dictate most if not all of the content on...

The current storm of change in Web development and online business models, coming as it does together with a simultaneous revolution in the way that users are choosing to use the Web, is an opportunity for us all.

What comes after Google? Where will the Web, the Internet, the whole nexus of telecommunications, i-Technology, and the quest for a better world, take us? My strong sense is as follows: if Web 2.0, as the joke goes, is about how we can make money out of Web 1.0, then Web 3.0 is going t...

The idea of Web services was to create a standard interface, programming model, description language, and a directory which would allow this to happen in and between very different systems. This is becoming a very important component to Web 2.0, or the ability to mix and match 'outside...