Google has added new dimension to blog search: “Search your blog world”. The new blogger search, which is in the draft stage, uses Google Ajax Search powered by Linked Custom Search Engine. It searches your own blogs content as well as anything you have linked to in your blog posts, including link lists and blogrolls. The …
May
28
JAX India 2007: Day 1: Web2.0? But I am Barely keeping up with Web 1.0 Right Now !
Its been an exciting day on the inaugural day of JAX India 2007. The day was meant for workshops and I attended half a day workshop on “Web 2.0? But I am Barely keeping up with Web 1.0 Right Now !” by Craig R McClanahan. Here is extract from the session: The session covered from history of web …
May
17
Is Ajax making sites less reachable?
We have been talking about Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies for sometime now. At one end Ajax becoming an asset from usability point of view but on the other hand it is making sites less search engine friendly. Search engines for now are not intelligent enough to make a server side request and retrieve the …
Apr
13
Web Applications to be available offline
Off late there has been lot of web sites that I came across which are trying to provide offline access for their Web applications. The basic idea is that the application can be worked with in a browser offline and automatically sync up whenever you get online. Scrybe is one such online/offline calender and organizer …
Mar
22
Catchup with Open Ajax Project
Open Ajax Project or better known as Open Ajax Alliance has added many more members to their alliance. The biggest name to add to the list is Microsoft. This makes a total count of 73 members working towards Ajax Globalization. Alliance has come up with the term called “OpenAjax Conformance” which defines a set of …
May
12
Open Ajax Project
Some days back I wrote an Article “Are we ready to adopt Ajax to improve usability? ” highlighting the various questions that need to be answered before we can really adopt it. Here is one initiative called “Open Ajax Project” that aims to create a single framework that standardizes development and debugging on a common …
Feb
19
Ajax – Looking back at year’s old journey
Ajax has come a long way in a year’s time. Last year around this time, we first heard about it. Ajax had brought about the a big difference in web applications which largely changed usability arena. Web Applications started looking like rich desktop applications. Let’s look at its journey from rebirth.
Jan
19
Ajax Implementation – An Example
In my earlier post, “Are we ready to adopt Ajax to improve usability?“, I highlighted that best bet for the existing sites is to start small may be including an ajax based components or use ajax to validate form fields etc. Here is one of the example.
Jan
15
Are we ready to adopt Ajax to improve usability?
There has been lot of talks about Ajax and usability with Ajax all set to change the user experience all over the Web. Nothing comes for free, if it has various advantages there are several disadvantages along with it. Advantages are pretty well known but lets look at the various disadvantages in terms of usability: …
Jan
05
Welcome 2006
Year 2005 had been a happening year in Portals and Content Management domain. Google emerging and standing out from rest of the world growing many folds and exploring in different domains. We saw products like Google Talk, Google Desktop and side bar, Google earth etc. It has really picked up itself from now just being …
