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  • Ajax, More Than A Buzz Word

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    Ajax the development technique, not to be confused with Ajax the cleaning solution, is taking the web by storm. What is it? Ajax stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. Its an architectural methodology on the interactions between a number of different technologies in a way that provides a more seamless user experience between user-to-server communication.…

  • Google Widgets

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    In my recent post on Windows Live Gadgets I shot down Google because they hadn’t already created their own widget/gadget engine for creating hosted…well…widgets. It seems they were waiting because they could do it better. Today I found out through Slashdot that Google released their version. Their widget API is available here. At first glance…

  • MSN Start & Windows Live Gadgets

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    MSN Start and Windows Live, which are competitors for Google/ig have jumped ahead of google and are now offering a repository for developers to create XML/javascript based ‘gadgets’! There are two types of gadgets. A remotely hosted gadget, where a site like MasterWish would create a gadget and make the URL to the gadget’s XML…