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Latest Articles from Jeremy Geelan
By Jeremy Geelan The first 'Power Panel' of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2006 just kicked off, with 4 industry experts led by AJAXWorld Magazine Editor-in-Chief Dion Hinchcliffe, discussing 'Web-Oriented Architecture: SOA + The Web + REST.' Oct. 3, 2006 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,764 | By Jeremy Geelan The thing that delivers that rich AJAX experience is the decoupling of the technical back end from the user experience. As Bruce Sterling expressed it, AJAX is the equaivalent of 'Roller skates for the Web.' But when are roller skates dangerous? When people are still learning how to mo... Oct. 3, 2006 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,750 | By Jeremy Geelan The lightweight AJAX programming model has taken the PC browser market by storm. This panel, moderated by AJAXWorld 2006 Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and with panelists including both the Father of DHTML and the Creator of the Term 'AJAX,' will look at the totality of its impact and ... Oct. 3, 2006 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,525 | By Jeremy Geelan The latest person to highlight the precariousness of public understanding of Web 2.0 is one of the absolute pioneers of a richer web, Nexaweb's founder and CTO, Coach Wei. Wei's concern centers on the common misapprehension that Web 2.0 is solely a consumer phenomenon - MySpace, Flickr... Oct. 2, 2006 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 24,613 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan Imbibing AJAX cheek-by-jowl with Yahoo!, Sun, Intel, Nortel Networks, McAfee, and a host of other major headquarters buildings is a salutary experience. It is as if the AJAX approach, which got itself a name in San Francisco but is based on technologies spawned in the Valley and elsewh... Oct. 1, 2006 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,753 | By Jeremy Geelan  The AJAX wildfire is about to break out at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley, as the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo - the biggest ever tradeshow devoted to AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web 2.0 - opens its doors October 2-4. The three-day event kicks... Oct. 1, 2006 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,022 Replies: 6 | By Jeremy Geelan The AjaxWorld(TM) Conference & Expo series is a world-beating Conference program aimed at providing developers and IT managers alike with comprehensive information and insight into the biggest paradigm shift in website design, development, and deployment since the invention of the Worl... Sep. 28, 2006 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 23,050 Replies: 11 | By Jeremy Geelan On Friday, Wired's Listening Post blog reported that Apple has hit Houston-based Podcast Ready with a cease-and-desist letter claiming that the terms 'Podcast Ready' and 'myPodder' infringe Apple's trademarks. Podcast Ready produces software that makes it easy to find and download podc... Sep. 27, 2006 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,882 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  Once upon a time - in a world before MashupCamps and online widget platforms like live.com, before Google's personalized homepage and pageflakes, and before JSON, Comet, Dojo, and Apache Derby - there was a term 'DHTML' (for dynamic HTML). It was used, as Wikipedia reminds us, for 'a ... Sep. 25, 2006 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 14,482 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Mark Knopfler once said, 'I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.' Anyone with that kind of gif... Sep. 25, 2006 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 16,039 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  According to our worldwide network of software development activists, evangelists, and executives, 2006 promises to be a vintage year for software development...with IE7, Atlas, and AJAX featuring prominently. Sep. 24, 2006 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 38,478 Replies: 5 | By Jeremy Geelan  SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced that Dion Hinchcliffe has been named the tech chair of the First International 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo' (www.ajaxworldexpo.com). Hinchcliffe is the founding editor of SYS-CON's AJAXWorld Magazine and Web 2.0 Journal. Sep. 23, 2006 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,644 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan Steve Ballmer, who after all is a 'mere' executive, not a founder like the rest of them, comes in at number fifteen in the newly-released Forbes 400 Richest Americans list. The list confirms the hugely dominant role played by technology in creating billionaires in the USA: no fewer tha... Sep. 23, 2006 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,390 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan Just fifteen years after Tim (now Sir Tim) Berners-Lee made public a little project he called the World Wide Web, something new is happening. And it involves, if not AJAX, then some kind of similar approach: this four-letter word, and the approach it crystallizes, has catalyzed a profo... Sep. 22, 2006 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 12,869 | By Jeremy Geelan  Since most any two words can and will be put together in this world, what with us being Homo Loquens and all, it's easy just to shrug when you hear new colloquies like 'social software,' 'social networking,' or 'social computing' and dismiss them as just three more inevitable permutati... Sep. 19, 2006 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 17,029 | By Jeremy Geelan In October the first ever AJAXWorld will burst into life as the most energetic event yet anywhere in the world devoted exclusively to AJAX, RIAs, Web 2.0 and beyond...but how about the grassroots stuff? It's time to nail down the topics and BOF leaders for this year's evening BOFs at t... Sep. 19, 2006 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 14,010 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan In a series of whipsaw revelations over the last 10 days - on which more ink seems to have been spent than Enron got - it has come to light that HP's non-executive chairman Patricia Dunn, who is supposed to be one of the most powerful women in America and was instrumental in removing H... Sep. 16, 2006 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 19,085 | By Jeremy Geelan  Web 2.0 is putting me back in touch with all that was good about those pre-Web days: putting me back in control, if you like. Instead of webmasters, let alone media moguls. That is why it is so fascinating to watch the players act out their parts. For example that of 'The Money-Mad Med... Sep. 14, 2006 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 21,092 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan With IBM joining the event as a Gold Sponsor, the lineup of charter sponsors and exhibitors of the conference now comprises some of the leading AJAX technology providers in the world, including Adobe, IBM, TIBCO, Backbase, ComponentArt, Helmi Technologies, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, tele... Sep. 13, 2006 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,820 Replies: 5 | By Jeremy Geelan When AJAXWorld Magazine's editor-in-chief Dion Hinchcliffe asked recently 'Is 'Web 2.0' Really About the Web, or Us?' he touched a vein. Sep. 11, 2006 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 16,702 Replies: 6 | By Jeremy Geelan The current storm of change in Web development and online business models, coming as it does together with a simultaneous revolution in the way that users are choosing to use the Web, is an opportunity for us all. Sep. 7, 2006 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 34,547 Replies: 10 | By Jeremy Geelan 'The love is in the letting go,' they say. But the creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, may be having difficulty relinquishing custody of his brainchild, 'Web 1.0,' and allowing it to evolve and grow...into Web 2.0. Sep. 5, 2006 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,790 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan Here, with apologies for those where I suppose, as Conference Chair, I ought properly to recuse myself, is my personal set of recommendations for the Top Five Events To Attend in what's left of 2006. Aug. 31, 2006 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,857 | By Jeremy Geelan  Does the arrival of 'Google Apps for your Domain' sound the death-knell for Redmond's world domination? That is the question sweeping the industry this week as the owner of the world's most-used search engine released a set of hosted applications 'for organizations that want to provide... Aug. 30, 2006 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 29,957 Replies: 6 | By Jeremy Geelan 'What AJAX has brought to the world,' says Mitchell Kertzman, longtime venture capitalist with Hummer Winblad but still inevitably known as the founder of PowerSoft and subsequent chairman and CEO of Sybase, 'is a hint that we can have both a browser client AND a rich UI.' Aug. 29, 2006 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 13,060 | By Jeremy Geelan A wise man once quipped that 'There's nothing more difficult to make a prediction about than the future.' Matt Hartley, a contributing writer to OSWeekly.com, discovered the truth of this first-hand - and painfully - this week when an item that he'd written got picked up (and mauled) b... Aug. 29, 2006 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 20,828 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan  'One of the challenges for anyone who, like Jesse James Garrett ('Ajax') or Tim O'Reilly ('Web 2.0'), has devised a new word or phrase that catches on and spreads like wildfire is what to do for an encore. O'Reilly's technique is ... Aug. 27, 2006 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 24,095 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan  Since most any two words can and will be put together in this world, what with us being Homo Loquens and all, it is easy just to shrug when you hear new colloquies like 'social software,' 'social networking' or 'social computing' and dismiss them as just three more inevitable permutati... Aug. 23, 2006 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,334 Replies: 7 | By Jeremy Geelan 'Web 1.0 was all about connecting people,' Sir Tim Berners-Lee says, in a podcast currently available on the IBM developerworks site. 'It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis... Aug. 23, 2006 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 25,944 Replies: 4 | By Jeremy Geelan SYS-CON Media announced today that Carmen Gonzalez has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of the company effective immediately. Gonzalez, as the first employee of SYS-CON Media, started the company's marketing and sales organization in 1994, and has managed the sales depa... Aug. 21, 2006 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 19,207 | By Jeremy Geelan This week's remarkable deletion, from Wikipedia, of the useful colloquy 'Enterprise 2.0' coined by a Harvard Business School professor and popularized by Web 2.0 Journal editor-in-chief Dion Hinchcliffe - has set the cat among the pigeons. Aug. 19, 2006 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,776 Replies: 9 | By Jeremy Geelan  'Seems like a lot going on here,' wrote John Dowdell; 'The place is pretty packed. Geeks mingled with suits; some of the geeks IN suits,' wrote Flash guru Jesse Randall Warden. 'Loooots of demos. And that's exactly what I came for,' wrote arpit. The blogosphere has been giving its earl... Aug. 16, 2006 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 45,964 Replies: 12 | By Jeremy Geelan  The historic Grand Ballroom of The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan again looks fantastic and Adobe's Dave Mendels (pictured) is keynoting which is certain to be a huge hit with the audience because he'll incorporate live demos etc. Aug. 14, 2006 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 41,694 Replies: 6 | By Jeremy Geelan Courtesy of August 10's terrorist twist of fate, this blog has been handwritten. I am typing it now only because what is important, wherever terrorism or threat of terrorism is concerned, is to maintain Business As Usual, so as to minimize disruption. Aug. 12, 2006 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 33,407 Replies: 2 | By Jeremy Geelan AMD Tuesday cracked Lenovo's previously Intel-only enterprise-directed ThinkCenter PCs, but the sacred ThinkPad notebook that Lenovo inherited from IBM, responsible for 52% of Lenovo's sales in Q2, is still off-limits to the interloper - at least for the time being. Lenovo is putting A... Aug. 11, 2006 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 17,575 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan There are a number of different frameworks that will do much of the heavy lifting for AJAX developers, from the well-known such as Dojo and ThinWire to the perhaps less well-known Taconite framework. Which is best suited to doing what job - and why? This fundamental question will be th... Aug. 2, 2006 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,216 | By Jeremy Geelan  For those who think that one weakness of the Newsweek piece is its title, MSNBC has come to the rescue by repurposing it under the - in my view, far sharper- title 'The New Wisdom of the Web.' This is a much more powerful rallying cry and I, for one, should have much preferred to see i... Jul. 29, 2006 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 27,256 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan 'The Web 2.0 world is fast changing. It requires continuous learning. It requires good books.' With that contention the CEO-cum-technology author Alex Iskold has launched a campaign to compile the best booklist for anyone wanting to get up to speed Web 2.0 technologies like CSS, AJAX, ... Jul. 28, 2006 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 17,183 Replies: 3 | By Jeremy Geelan  In one of my (several) former professional lives, I used to publish books about the future, including, for example, the world's first full-length book about groupware. Unless we can first capture and thereafter harvest - asynchronously, as and when it is most needed and most relevant -... Jul. 24, 2006 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 25,067 Replies: 1 | By Jeremy Geelan  At SYS-CON Media's SOA Web Services Edge Conference in New York City, we had a chance to sit down with David Mendels, general manager of Adobe, to discuss Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, Flex, RIA, and more. Jul. 18, 2006 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 28,914 Replies: 4 |
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new 
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