The three-year-old Dojo Foundation has put out version 1.0 of Dojo, an open source JavaScript toolkit for AJAX development meant for building rich Web 2.0 applications without proprietary plug-ins or single-vendor solutions. The widgetry makes use of Google Gears, Google's solution for

Microsoft has pulled the search widgetry out of SharePoint Server 2007 and turned it into a standalone Search Server 2008 Express that it will make available as a free download. It says information workers waste as much as 9.5 hours a week on searches that don't turn up the right infor

Watching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envyWatching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envy - so green in fact that it's gonna try taking VMware on b

My own personal install of Leopard seems to be having periodic trouble completing a shutdown on the 17' MBP. Annoying? Yes. Worthy of posting something inflammatory such as 'wrong with Leopard's spots'? Doubtful. So, in looking at eWeek's Microsoft Watch's latest article, I leave you w

Google made its first public move today to put its brand on the mobile sector, announcing an Open Handset Alliance of 33 partner companies committed to advancing an open source platform called Android. Google's partners, gathered apparently over the last year, include T-Mobile, Motorol

Do I care just because I am a Google fanboy? Not exactly, although that does amp up my excitement. With an open platform for development for mobiles, plus Google's conquest of Jaiku for its mobile/presence capabilities - I am a big fan of Jyri Engestrom, the founder of Jaiku, a smart a

Have you played with Google's Desktop tool? This is basically a strip on the side of your screen that lets you house small applications, called Gadgets. The tool is available for Windows, Linux and Mac so no matter your vice there is a flavour for you. There is a wide variety of Gadget

Imho, Google has a long way to go to build the base of users and developers connected using the new protocol that is the subject of all this chest-thumping. Do they exist in any tangible form? How much of a moving target are they? It's like proclaiming the new owners of A-Rod's contrac

Now that Leopard is out and everyone is, I suspect, feverishly reformatting their laptops and desktops to install the retail copy of Leopard, developers can finally start sharing their Leopard code samples. Rather than me sitting around making up stupid reasons why such-and-such code s

As Microsoft's recent $240M investment in Facebook gives FB all the capital it needs to further its grand ambitions, some are concerned that one corporation should control so much information about the detailed personal activities and connections among individuals. Even before OpenSoci

Let's consider the pages of a traditional corporate Website. They include an 'about me' page, a contact page, a careers section, and probably a page with news and press releases. The words look good on paper, and, more than likely, a committee gave the final sign-off on the site's cont

What I am going to do in this regular column is feed my habit by highlighting some of the books I am reading, and (mostly) enjoying. (I will only rarely write negative reviews; it's a rare book that I 'do not put down gently but throw across the room with great force' after all.) Geeks

Standards devised by one tech company whose main purpose is to undermine another tech company, usually don't work. In this case it's Google trying to undermine Facebook. And I don't think it's going to work. What would be exciting and uplifting, a real game-changer -- Internet companie

There's a really interesting (free) article by Amol Sharma in the Wall Street Journal about Google's expected cellphone software, and whether Google will be able to do the necessary deals with the mobile carriers. In addition to providing core Google apps (search, maps, YouTube, etc.),

Gee whillikers. After hours on Monday Apple, the PC company people love to love, started behaving like Google. While its Q4 conference call was in progress its stock price went up almost $13 to over $187, a personal best, a position it then failed to hold. Even if it pulled in its Dece

The European Commission said Monday that it's going to take another two weeks and change to weigh the widely criticized Google-DoubleClick deal and either rubberstamp it or plow into a deeper, months-long investigation. It was supposed to say something by Friday October 26; now it's g

Google is perhaps today's best example of a company built on calculative thinking. Like a grand master in chess, Google uses strategic feints to obtain its objective - winning the game. Google Version 2.0 shares the search and ad capabilities of Google Version 1.0, but it is much, muc

That anti-Microsoft pair, IBM and Google, are kicking in $20 million-$25 million apiece for hardware, software and services to spread the gospel of 'cloud computing' in the academe. They want budding computer scientists to learn how to write Internet-scale programs that process trillio

Joshua Cyr at Macromedia blogs writes: 'I got some spam from sys-con again today. I have tried for months now to get off their damn lists. At any rate the subject caught my eye. 'ColdFusion 8 is Here'. Thats odd... so I decide to read the email. Turns out their mail server probably jus

'The biggest problem here is that it looks bad for ColdFusion. The first print magazine dedicated to it has left the building,' says Michael Dinowitz in his blog about the Adobe decision to kill CFDJ. 'The very fact that they're moving the magazine from ColdFusion, an Adobe product, to

The data protection commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein Thilo Weichert has written to EC antitrust chief Neelie Kroes saying the proposed Google-DoubleClick merger would mean the violation of fundamental provisions of the European Data Protection Directive and 'lead to massive violation

Google said Wednesday that it's added Postini's e-mail security and compliance service to its Google Apps Premier Edition just as it was expected to when it said in July that it was buying the company for $625 million cash. The Postini widgetry is supposed to be a come-on for the enter

Told ya so. Told ya so. Told ya Adobe was gonna buy that free Buzzword online word processing widgetry so it can finally get into the Office business. Adobe, which invented desktop publishing and saved one of Apple's nine lives, denies it's going up against Microsoft - and, if we're de

Telefonica and Yahoo have announced a global agreement providing a framework for making oneSearch, Yahoo!'s mobile search product, the main search service on Telefonica's mobile portals in 15 countries in Europe and Latin America, potentially reaching more than 100 million consumers wo

A pre-release of the new book, SEO Notebook by SEOpartner.com, promises to give business Website owners and Webmasters leverage in real-world SEO techniques and strategies. According to the authors, SEO Notebook is a journal full of the tips and techniques used to make SEOpartner.com n

Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the google.com domain in 1997, and Google was officially launched one year later, making Google 9 this year. Google's birthday has alweays been celebrated on September 27th with a doodle displayed on the homepage, and today is no exception.

Well, now we'll get to see just how powerful Microsoft really is. The test is whether it can stop Google from taking over DoubleClick and becoming, in Microsoft's words, the 'dominant pipeline for all forms of online advertising' as well as 'the largest database of online user data in

I will be attending the Ajax World Conference next week in Santa Clara. I will also be at the opening reception on Monday and the conference party on Tuesday. Over the weekend Jesse Liberty blogged about this as well 'If you are going to be at AJAXWorld, look for me on Twitter, and let

While trying out the Yahoo Mail Beta (in combination with the new Yahoo Mash Beta), I imported my address book from GMail into Yahoo Mail today - and was HORRIFIED when Yahoo proclaimed that it was now going to spam all my contacts and tell them about my 'new' Yahoo e-mail address. Wha

What I need is a rich desktop application that can save files to my hard drive and if I need to make a shared copy, I can save to a shared location. If Google gave me a good 'Save As...' location from inside my MS Word or Pages '08 application, I might use it. Until then, I see these n

In the first, possibly serious, quasi-defection to the online software-as-a-service Google Apps Premier Edition, Capgemini SA, the $10 billion French consultant, said Monday that it will recommend the stuff to its clients which include major outfits like Eli Lilly and PricewaterhouseCo

CFDynamics, a ColdFusion Web hosting company, has announced their hosting of Jumpstart?s Read for the Record Event Finder/Builder that will allow participants to find reading events being held in their communities on the record-breaking day, September 20.

He is the second executive in the past month to say he would leave Google's 44-strong executive team -- three years after the company's initial public offering. Chief Financial Officer George Reyes said he would retire by the end of 2007. Bosworth, who joined Google three years ago, ha

September 13 being Roald Dahl's birthday (he was born September 13, 1916), Google is celebrating today with a special celebration logo on the Google search page featuring items and characters from Dahl's world famous children's books.

The Google Calendar API - one of many powerful APIs Google provides to AJAX Web developers - offers the little-known capability to embed a custom Web page directly into Google's Calendar. This hands-on tutorial instructs on the use of AJAX to build feature-rich applets within Google Ca

Many companies, including IBM, are beginning to find enterprise uses for Web-based Google Gadgets, including intranets, extranets and Internet applications. This talk gives an update on this fast-moving world, and the surprising ways people are taking advantage of this technology. Adam

JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval in the lab when it could be tried out and polished. JavaScript has some extraordinarily good parts. In JavaScrip

With the recent rise in popularity of web technologies such as Ajax and Flash, it has become possible to create richer user experiences on the web. Even though these technologies are not actually new, we are now seeing their widespread adoption. One of the hallmarks of this experience

SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new spons

I will be teaching a one day Bootcamp course on Ajax at the AJAXWorld Conference in Santa Clara, California on September 23, 2007. Details are at http://aja xbootcamp.sys-con.com I will be expanding the Ajax construction tools section from the Ajax Bootcamp I taught in New York at the S