Posts Tagged with ‘ajax’

TV guides. Not the most exciting things in the world, we’ll admit. But they’re necessary. Few guides offered by satellite providers are genuinely good, and I can’t think of any content delivery services, apart from the bridge made between Yahoo! and TiVO (neither of which actually provide any content in and of themselves), that give you the programming forecast both on your television and inside the web browser – or desktop widget or whathaveyou.
Couchville, an Ajax-based TV guide, doesn’t tie in [...]

So you like a good white washed mountain slope, eh? Ride the rails in winter? Practice those rotations on weekends a story or two into the sky? Then you’ll probably like what Diversion Media has come up with.
Diversion Media first delivered Travelistic to the masses, a video site of documented travels by people, amateurs and professionals – and some in-betweeners. Travelistic is lovely. It’s got a Google Map (shows the number of videos posted from each country). It’s [...]

Trying desperately not to mind the disarray on Web 2.0 Journal’s website, created by an immense number of windows and ads (the visual antithesis of Web 2.0), I read up on some news you might be interested in. It concerns security in the age of Ajax, and it has much to do with what will be covered by a myriad of industry heavyweights at the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, running March 19-21 in New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel.
Who’ll be shining [...]

Several of Shakespeare’s works are said to be timeless, but on the whole, most of us couldn’t be bothered with the scenes he presented to the world. They’re from a bygone era where wigs were a guy thing, a mustache was something one took pride in, and people seemed to carry around poetic licenses like we do passports today. But though at its core Shakespeare’s fan base is as resilient as ever, the rings of casual readers, listeners, and watchers [...]

Simple ideas can be the foundation to some really great products. Such is the case with search. But search can only go so far, and no matter how precise the algorithm, if you don’t know what it is you’re looking for, you’re going to be in a rut until you discover what that something is. The founders of GO2WEB20 have proven this point well, by helping searchers search via directory. Better still, GO2WEB20 is all Web 2.0, all of the time. [...]

ZCubes, probably one of the net’s first good browser in a browser websites. Why would you need one? Well, aside from being a great portal/homepage (much more useful and customizable than the Google Homepage). Needing no complicated plugins whatsoever, ZCubes is a great portal application that lets you do anything and everything you ever dreamed you could do on a PC, all within the comfort of a single, online page.
There’s in-built social networking (darn good too!), website development tools, in-built [...]

Yahoo! TV has been around for quite some time, but when I heard that an all-new, Yahoo! TV had been released, I simply had to go and check it out. Yahoo! TV 2 has some rather interesting new additions to the already content-rich service it provides. Yahoo’s TV service is truly great. Best of all, unlike many other services, this thing really works! It allows you to surf the comprehensive listings with ease and quickly pick out interesting programs you [...]

A mini tempest in a teacup blowing up at meme-land, over socialism versus social networks, hype, snake oil and window-dressing versus the ‘solidity’ of standards and ‘truly distributed’ networks. Bill Thompson’s article does have some element of truth in respect to the temptation of appearance over architecture, as Nicholas Carr remarks; yet, in many ways, his article and the myriad responses seem to be devolving into an argument of the “how many angels on a pinhead” kind.
Despite all the hyperbole [...]

Are you a book worm? You don’t have to admit, but if you’re one, then you should visit Google’s Book Search the next time you’re planning to get or read an ebook. Dion Almaer recently shared some interesting reviews about the recent Ajax upgrade of Google book search on Ajaxian.com.
Being someone who’s been reading ebooks in PDF format for quite a while, I am really impressed with the Ajax feature that Google implemented on their book search. Besides the usual [...]