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Mozilla offers do-it-yourself mashups for all
Mozilla released an experimental browser plug-in on Tuesday that aims to connect the Web with language to help users perform common Web tasks more quickly and easily. Read more »
Ubuntu cuddles Zimbra
Zimbra, the open source email software that Yahoo acquired for US$350m last year, is officially coming to Ubuntu Linux. Read more »
Coder links Yahoo search, Google App Engine
The goliaths of the Internet are dangling an ever-larger supply of bootstraps for folks who want to try new ideas for the Web. Read more »
Google follows Yahoo lead into geo-search
Google has added a new element to its search interface that will let others' websites use geographically linked information. Read more »
Can social networking cure health system?
Healthcare may not be the first thing one associates with social networking, but Sun Microsystems and Singapore's National Healthcare Group hope their latest effort will bridge the two. Read more »
Microsoft and News Corp to bid for Yahoo
A month after Rupert Murdoch said News Corp is too small to compete for Yahoo, the media giant is teaming up with Microsoft in a joint take over bid for Yahoo, which would see MySpace brought into the mix. Read more »
Facebook app takes glory in Sensis code-off
A location-based service designed to track the physical location of friends on Facebook has taken honours in Sensis's WhereIs mapping competition. Read more »
Hasta la vista, Vista: The social OS is on the way
A recent study has asserted that the next generation of operating systems will link users to each other on an unprecedented scale as developers incorporate social networking into their platforms. Read more »
Accenture: Embrace Web 2.0 cautiously
IT consultancy Accenture has advised businesses to accept Web 2.0 working practices but to beware of possible impacts on the IT department. Read more »
Mashups conquer charts at Lotusphere
At its annual Lotusphere conference, IBM showed off an early version of Lotus Mashups, a tool designed to let businesspeople, rather than professional programmers, quickly assemble Web applications. Read more »
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Security in the Web 2.0 Era
At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Sydney this week, Andrew Walls, the research director and security analyst at Gartner presented "Security in the Age of E-Commerce and Web 2.0". Read more »
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »
Is Java Windows for Unix?
Java is an incredibly successful toolset -- but what is it really and how did it get to be so popular? 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 »
Powerful Web Services with PHP and SOAP
We show you how to take your Web applications to the next level with SOAP, the "powerhouse of Web services", building high-end Web services with pure PHP. Read more »
One virtual machine to rule them all
The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language -- it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby, Python with PHP to follow shortly. Read more »
Yahoo! Pipes brings mashups to the masses
The Yahoo! Pipes project facilitates mashup creation via an easy-to-use interface. Read more »
What is Popfly?
Microsoft evangelist and professional geek Nick Hodge gives us the low down on the Silverlight based mashup engine Popfly, and gives us a quick demonstration of it's application building abilities. Read more »
The future of mashups
While at Web Directions South we took the opportunity to talk to Adrian Holovaty, creator of the Django framework and founder of EveryBlock, and asked him where he saw the mashup trend heading. Read more »
Check out these Web development tools from Microsoft
Many are often overwhelmed by the number of development tools and options streaming out of Redmond. Here's a rundown of the current Microsoft products that are available for building Web-based applications. Read more »
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AJAX applications and security
-- Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON, gave a talk entitled "AJAX Security" at the recent Web Directions South conference. In this talk, Crockford discussed some of the security concerns with AJAX applications and what can be done to address them. Read more »
The Portal of the Future
-- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »
Yahoo open search: Good for users, but great for Yahoo
-- Yahoo is making a big deal of its new open search initiative. This program, not yet live, will allow site publishers to influence the way the Yahoo search engine displays results for their sites. Read more »
XSS fun with Howard: Liberal Party says no
-- Political parties have no sense of humour. Far from being a revelation, it was merely reinforced yet again as both the major parties in this country had their sites fall victim to XSS. Read more »
Blogger declares shenanigans on advertisers -- piracy or plagiarism?
-- MIT academic calls notices some suspicious similiarities between a lecture he wrote and an Australian made printer ad. Could this be piracy, or merely plagiarism. I call in the lawyers to find out. Read more »
iPhone Web development guide released
-- Apple has released it's Web development guide for iPhone. Is your Web application Safari compatible? Read more »
Google Developer Day comes to Sydney
-- Lock in May 31st for learning about everything that is Google. Read more »
Mercantile Mashups
-- Making mashups for a living is a web developers dream - it may be closer than you think. Read more »
Has Google Crippled Gmail for Safari?
-- One of the true failings of Ajax is that it's a mashup of a number of technologies that relies on various versions of code to support various browsers - that it's not complimented by a single cross-platform runtime like the Flash Player. Google's popular Gmail is likely to be the most used Ajax application today, and it like other Ajax applications it suffers from the inability to offer true cross browser support, especially for Safari. Read more »
Mapping the path to developer peace of mind
-- Mapping is one thing... as long as the owners of its contributing APIs do not change the terms in their licence Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.