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Jive jumps into Web collaboration
Jive Software plans to ride Web 2.0 technologies into the world of corporate collaboration software. Read more »
Mozilla Thunderbird 2 takes flight
Mozilla on Thursday launched Thunderbird 2, the latest version of its free, open-source e-mail client featuring message tagging and customisation. Read more »
Microsoft blogging software available in beta
Microsoft has released a beta version of Windows Live Writer, a new blogging software designed for users with no HTML skills. Read more »
Microsoft SharePoint goes wild for wikis
Microsoft has jumped on the Web 2.0 express with the launch of an add-on for SharePoint server that enables businesses to make use of popular "community" collaboration features such as wikis and blogs. Read more »
Corporate America wakes up to Web 2.0
Big companies have for years installed industrial-strength content management systems in the hope of sparking collaboration among workers. There was just one problem: People didn't use them. Read more »
Microsoft readies VoIP software beta
After months of anticipation, corporate customers will soon get their hands on a beta version of Microsoft's VoIP software, an event that marks an important step in the evolution of corporate communications. Read more »
Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in
Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »
Netscape co-founder eyes video blogs
Do bloggers really work in their underwear? Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen is behind a company that may answer that question. Read more »
Date set for Firefox 3.1 beta
Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to release a beta or test version to the public in August. Read more »
Google privacy blunder opens up share lists
Google has followed in the footsteps of Facebook by changing its Google Reader to make shared items automatically available to Google Talk contacts. Read more »
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HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more
In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »
Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?
The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »
Location-based publishing and services
Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »
Add meaning to Web pages with microformats
A technology that has gathered steam the past couple years is microformats. Microformats allow you to add context to existing information contained within a Web page. Read more »
Befriend APML -- the new markup for social profiles
What began as a discussion two years ago during a power blackout has led to Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML), which is an attempt to create a standardised and open format for consumers to store information about their interests and preferences. Read more »
Ask the MX expert: Create a login in ColdFusion
Robin Hilliard, our resident Macromedia MX expert shows one Builder AU reader how to create a session login screen in ColdFusion MX. Read more »
Dreamweaver MX: Getting used to the changes
Dreamweaver MX boasts tons of new features and functionality, but it can frustrate the veteran ColdFusion developer making the move from Studio. See what problem areas to avoid and what surprises you can expect. Read more »
Developing an HTML-formatted mail message
The task of including HTML in e-mail is not so simple as it seems, Tony Patton runs through some tips. Read more »
Web 2.0 meets the enterprise
Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »
Flexing some muscle
Macromedia's Flex allows developers to create rich presentation layers for Internet applications using Flash. We'll show you how to get your first Flex application up and running. Read more »
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Tools for the Semantic Web
-- This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »
Startup Camp Sydney: The review
-- Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney". Read more »
Mapping mashups weave a personal story
-- Google Maps has been given a new application. This time it’s a space for users to pin their personal stories on a map, but its applications are far wider, and might perhaps not all be entirely well-intentioned. Read more »
The audience is the application
-- In a near-perfect feedback loop, the audience for software developers is now becoming part of the process, a primary development tool able to feed back its wishes and bend the outcome of developers’ efforts to better suit to its needs. Read more »
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