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Spotplex

Posted on May 17, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Podcasting, analytics |

Spotplex provides Internet users with real-time ranking of blog articles based on actual impression count. In other words, you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex. This is not a list of articles people recommended or voted for, but a list of articles [...]

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meebo rooms

Posted on May 15, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0, widgets |

Meebo just released a cool new feature called meebo rooms. Sandy from Meebo calls it “chat rooms on steroids”. Meebo rooms have a built in feature that enables you to create a room, add it to you buddylist (to receive notifications even when you’re not in the room), you can even embed the room on [...]

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Using Ajax to Declutter Pages

Posted on May 10, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, UI Design, Web 2.0 |

With Web 2.0 there’s so many ‘ Long Tail’ possibilities for content that you can result in too many visual elements on the screen. Print, email, bookmarks, comments, trackbacks, tags and metadata. Applying Ajax creatively can allow for a much more focused experience.

Social bookmarking sites are popular these days, allowing alternative (to email) ways [...]

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Google AJAX feed API

Posted on April 23, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0, widgets |

Today Google launched the Google AJAX Feed API, an API that allows users to develop mashups using only a few lines of JavaScript rather than dealing with complex server-side proxies.
The sample below uses the AJAX Feed API to display a rotating collection of iTunes RSS Feeds.
@import url(“http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/tunebar/gftunebar.css”);
#tunebar {
[...]

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Pageflakes Widgets

Posted on April 23, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0, widgets |

Pageflakes is an Ajax-based start page similar to My Yahoo!, Google Personalized Homepage, and Microsoft Live. The site is organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes containing information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, flickr photos and user-created modules.
Got Widgets?
Now you can make any Flake a widget. [...]

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Hijax – The solution for ajax accessibility

Posted on April 16, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0 |

One of the prevalent buzz-words in Web 2.0 is “Ajax”. A term originally coined by interactive design guru and Adaptive Path founder Jessie James Garrett; Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The idea that without Flash we can achieve “desktop application like” behavior – users can interact without refreshing the page - has become a key design [...]

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Digitas is Hiring!

Posted on April 10, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, MITX, UI Design, Web 2.0 |

If you are looking for a great online marketing job, if you are a stellar Flash designer or developer, a copy writer looking for some kick, you’ve got talent for digital communications and you want a great job – well my company is hiring.
Digitas designs, builds, and runs the large-scale marketing engines that [...]

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Scribd – Better than Adobe Acrobat for posting documents on your website

Posted on March 2, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0 |

Techcrunch calls Scribd the “YouTube for documents”. What’s nice is that this free service allows you to upload documents and provide multiple download link formats. Additionally, an added benefit, is if you are publishing whitepapers and other documents to your website it will provide another channel by which your audience may find you. Scribd is [...]

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Everything Web 2.0

Posted on February 12, 2007. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0 |

Check out this list of lists – Web 2.0 Trends – A comprehensive list of Web 2.0 Sites, Trends, Companies, Services and more.

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Pageflakes redesign allows you to create private spaces

Posted on November 16, 2006. Filed under: AJAX, Web 2.0 |

Pageflakes, an Ajax home page service that is headquartered in Germany, has redesigned their site and added some nice functionality. Pageflake’s recently added “publish” feature, where users can create pages with contact information, to-do lists, family pictures, etc. and either publish the content publicly, or share with a few friends.

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    An early pioneer in interactive media, Dean Whitney is a Web 2.0 and Social media technology evangelist.

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