Tag: web 2.0

  • Yahoo Acquires Zimbra

    Today, Zimbra announced today that they have been acquired by Yahoo! for $350 million. Zimbra was bound to be acquired by someone and the acquisition by Yahoo! wasn’t an overly surprising move as it has had a tendency to pick up Web 2.0 and Ajax Web Apps over the past few years. It will be…

  • Ultimate Web 2.0 Collaborative Game: Eat Poop U Cat

    Via Ajaxian a few days ago, I was re-introduced to a great party game that I have played with pen and paper a couple times in my life. The game results in off the wall drawing and serious laughs and it has found it’s way to the web in a collaborative game of sweet humorous…

  • Flock

    Flock is awesome. For now I’ve made the switch from Firefox to Flock’s Beta v0.7. What is Flock? Well, Flock is the expert on themselves so here’s their description: The web, and the way people engage online, has evolved dramatically over the past decade. We still see a lot of room for the browser to…

  • MasterWish – Practicing What I Preach

    MasterWish, my labor of love (created with my friends Zach Tirrell and Jon Emmons) is my playground for Ajax and Web 2.0 experiments. If you haven’t been acquainted with the site, its a wishlist site with a schlew of features. The high point is the ability to secure down lists and grant access to specific…

  • Thumbstack – A Web-Based Presentation Application

    A while back, my pal Zach posted about S5, “A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System.” Now, its important to note that S5 is trying to set up a standard and not develop a full blown application. S5 seems to be a solid foundation…all it really needs is a slick editor and I’m sold. Well, as…

  • Google Acquires Writely

    Back in October I was extremely excited about Writely. It has been a few months and my love for the word processing application grows each time I use it. I wrote: The gist of this application is that its a Word Processor online! You can type documents (much like you can with MS Word or…

  • Multimedia – Images, Color & Web 2.0

    We are covering a lot of topics today and thus our slides may bleed over into next week. We’ll begin with Images & Color. Then move on in to Web 2.0, which we’ve talked about in the past.

  • Google Calendar Coming Down the Pipe

    I knew it was coming, but when will it get here? I’m talking about Google’s Calendar a.k.a. Google CL2. It seems as if the calendar may come sooner than later, as google is leaving bread crumbs hanging around that point in the direction of a calendar app. Here’s a blurb from PaulStone.net (where I first…

  • Multimedia – Web 2.0

    O’Reilly has a document on “What is Web 2.0?“. For class on Tuesday, please read the article as it really encapsulates the movement in web application design/architecture. The important topics discussed are: Web as a Platform Harnessing Collective Intelligence Data is the Next Intel Inside End of the Software Release Cycle Lightweight Programming Models Software…

  • Prototype Makes Javascript Painless

    Prototype is an excellent tool but lacking in documentation, causing me to fumble around and *gasp* look at the source code. As any developer knows, when reviewing code there is a chance that you may miss something or ignore what doesn’t seem interesting. In doing so, you may miss some sweet features that you would…

  • Look Ma, Cross-Domain Scripting!

    Ajax, as I’ve stated time and time again, is sweet. So what is problem? XMLHTTPRequest requires that the called scripts that execute server side and return information to the client must reside on the same domain. This has irked me time and time again during my exploration and experimentation of the Web 2.0 world. Enter…

  • Script.aculo.us Is My New Best Friend

    Ajax is great. DOM manipulation is sexy. I’m fairly new to the Ajax world having only developed with with it since July. MasterWish was my guinea pig and continues to be my playground for all things Web 2.0. Luckily, my manager Ken is pumped up about this whole Web 2.0/Ajax thing which has allowed me…

  • Ajax, More Than A Buzz Word

    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.…

  • Amazon Tags!

    About Time! According to CNet, Amazon is heading down the road of tagging. This is great news in my book. I’m a follower of the Web 2.0 movement and have really been turned onto the idea of folksonomy (tagging) by products like Flickr and thus have recently brought MasterWish on board with tagging. While many…

  • MasterWish Enters the Web 2.0 World

    MasterWish has been my labor of love for the past 6 months. The site – create by Zachary Tirrell, Jon Emmons, and myself – was opened to the public (in beta mode) in the middle of September. Over the past month, we’ve been pretty excited about the whole Web 2.0 craze. The initial release was…