The Ajax Myth

Mis-​​​​Information Week per­petu­ates the myth that Web 2.0 is all about AJAX. The stand­first to the article lays the ground­work, sug­gesting that this is purely about tech­no­lo­gies, when surely approaches would be a better way to begin:

To bring your site into the Web 2.0 world, you need to know about Ajax, ActiveX, RSS, and other

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The Gospel According to AJAX

Just to note that we now have a Web 2.0 bible. Lots of dynam­ic­ally refreshing goodness, social net­working and tags. Seriously, you can tag the bible.

Also a good excuse for some serious punnage: second coming, blessed be the tooltips, in the begin­ning was the CSS. (insert favourites below)

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Good News for Homepage 2.0

It’s not important for you to know my name — Nor I to know yours If we com­mu­nicate for two minutes only It will be enough For knowing that someone in this world Feels as des­perate as me — And what you give is what you get.

It doesn’t matter if we never meet again, What

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Getting to know you

Personally, I can’t abide text chat. Not enough time for me to think (email) and no real-​​​​life presence (phone). However, my new series, This-​​​​Guy-​​​​Emailed-​​​​Me-​​​​About-​​​​His-​​​​New-​​​​Product (as in this and this), con­tinues apace.

Charles Landemaine con­tacted me about Interaction, a text chat applic­a­tion that can be inserted into any web page. This AJAX product comes in three

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Back to school

So it’s Number Two in what appears to be my impromptu new series, “I don’t really do product stuff, but this guy emailed me…”. Alex Weidmann was kind enough to get in touch about his new Web 2.0 service, mynoteIT, and then to answer my rude ques­tions about the business behind it.

Again, this

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Ajax washes slower

I thought a slightly more high-​​​​tech look would be better for this site, given its theme. If it causes problems, drop me a line.