Posts Tagged with ‘ajax’

The Black Hat USA 2007 conference took place in Las Vegas over the four days of July 28 through August 2. Lots of topics and issues were covered, and lots of holes were exploited (for demonstration purposes only, of course), between all the briefings and training sessions.
One item that received a fair amount of attention was AJAX, the magical asynchronous duo that is Java and XML, employed by a great number of developers today at small startups and Internet [...]

I seem to be developing a specialty here writing about online polling sites. The latest entrant into the space is SubmitYourVote, a new social polling site with a very pretty interface.
SubmitYourVote has all the hallmarks of a Web 2.0 site: logo with beta status, minimalist site design, and, of course, the social aspect of creating your own polls, voting on other polls, commenting and tagging of polls, and a nifty Ajax feature that takes your polling results and places them [...]

Nielsen/NetRatings announced this week that they were going to change the way they rank web sites, moving from prioritizing page views in determining sites' popularity to "total minutes" and "total sessions."
What was immediately clear from the announcement and the initial coverage is that the Powers That Be in the web popularity game are still not getting it, and neither are the media outlets, many of whom are probably buying ads based on this antiquated system.
Forbes references "increasingly using a software [...]

It is always a pleasure to review really innovative new Web 2.0 services so I am rather pleased to introduce our readers to newly launched SynthaSite, an AJAX based Web Publishing Platform that was launched yesterday in what they call Technology Review stage. Basically this South Africa startup is intended to provide you with tools to create a professionally looking website focusing specifically on widgets and mashups. SynthaSite is completely browser-based (in my experience it works with Firefox slightly better [...]

Google's made many headlines lately, but today one particular announcement by the company shadowing almost all others. We say almost, because the biggest elephant in the room remains the Google-DoubleClick deal. $3.1bn is one card that’s really very difficult to trump.
On to the latest news. It turns out Google’s been hard at work trying to construct a bridge between online and offline use of applications that as of now can only be accessed with Internet connections, and come out from [...]

Review Basics is a new feedback gathering platform that allows professionals throughout industry to share ideas and provide reviews to a wide variety of content. Besides providing a universal set of review tools RB offers customized solutions targeted at specific markets and industry sectors.
The backbone of the RB is the utilization of Flash and AJAX interactive tools that allows users great flexibility in communication, collaboration and creativity. The service can be utilized over a broad spectrum of solution oriented [...]

If I'd seen the information on Scriptless Day on the first of April, I'd have been convinced I was being taken by another April Fool's Day joke, but apparently, this is no joke. Some crazies (and I'm using that term with the utmost affection, I assure you) have decided that the best way to highlight the way in which we should give thanks to what JavaScript has brought us in the form of Ajax and Web 2.0 applications is to [...]

In the comments section of my review of Clipperz, CEO of Clipperz Marco Barulli disagreed with my concerns about using third-party libraries for Clipperz, as well as an open-source JavaScript cryptographic library. Fortify Software would seem to agree with me, releasing an advisory this week on a known vulnerability in Web 2.0 sites that rely on Ajax.
Fortify examined 12 popular Ajax frameworks, including the biggies - Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! - as well as open-source releases. Their [...]

Say you want to manage your daily routine. Your work life, your private life, whatever. And you just want an all-in-one solution that happens to be everywhere you are even if your computer isn’t always right by your side. If that profile fits you well, HiTask may end up being something you simply can’t live without. If you’re already set with your favorite utility, or want nothing to do with task management, read on anyway. You might change your mind.
There [...]