"Front-end engineering rocks right now," says upcoming AJAXWorld speaker Christian Heilmann from Yahoo! "The era of boring web sites is over and we’re all into pushing the envelope, erasing boundaries and getting beyond whatever prevents us from building the next killer web application," he continues. "New companies building quick-turnaround web products spring up like mushrooms and many an old convention of web design is cast aside to make way for quick prototyping and agile development."
Heilman's session is but one of many dozens of high-energy, insightful technical sessions from the world-class line-up of speakers on the Faculty next week at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East, the 5th International AJAXWorld.
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The 5th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo is being held in New York City, at The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Douglas Crockford, Architect at Yahoo! and Creator of the JSON data interchange format
DOUGLAS CROCKFORD Can We Fix The Web?
The
Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define it were
last revised in 1999, since when it has grown from a document retrieval
system into an application delivery system.The
current Web is overly complex, visually underpowered, and hopelessly
insecure. It is now under competitive assault by new proprietary
platforms that hope to capture the next generation of applications. Can
a system as large and as open as the Web heal and adapt itself to the
challenges of the 21st Century.
Anthony Franco, UX & UI Expert, President of Effective User Interface (EffectiveUI)
ANTHONY FRANCO RIA Adoption in 2008 – Risks, Rewards, Challenges and Opportunities
Last
year, the overall demand for RIAs outpaced the qualified supply chain.
Industry analysts expect the explosive growth to continue in 2008. This
unprecedented increase in RIA adoption – especially by the Fortune 500
– will enable companies to hone their competitive edge and improve core
business practices with fast, reliable, productivity-enhancing tools. RIAs can provide your customers with user experiences that leave your competition in the dust. While the flip side of the coin is that the world of RIAs can be fraught with costly risk, if you keep the risks and rewards front of mind, you can turn the 2008 RIA challenge into successful opportunities.
About RIA News Desk Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.
Gomez wrote: Steve
Souders is now at Google,
and the Google Code team
has taken some of the
advice from High
Performance Web Sites and
applied it to reduce
user-perceived latenc
Corporate raider Carl
Icahn started his proxy
fight for control of
Yahoo this morning,
beginning with the
classic Icahn opening,
the letter of reproach to
the Yahoo board telling
them they have acted
'irrationally and lost
the faith of shareholders
and Microsoft.'
Zoho announced that it is
welcoming Google and
Yahoo users with a
unified login designed to
encourage those users to
try Zoho applications.
Now, Google and Yahoo
users who visit Zoho can
simply log into Zoho
using the usernames and
passwords associated with
their Google and Yahoo
accou
Google has taken its
Postini investment and
turned out Google Web
Security for the
Enterprise, which is
supposed to protect
against spyware, viruses
and zero-hour threats in
real-time whether the
user is on the corporate
network or working
remotely like at a hotel
or in an airport. If
'Wikipedia is a great way
for us to showcase
Powerset's functionality
while giving people a
faster time to
satisfaction,' said
Barney Pell, co-founder
and CTO of Powerset, as
his company today
unveiled a publicly
available beta product
that according to Pell
reinvents how users
search
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google collect for
targeted adv
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means of support.
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