Dave Johnson, an experienced software developer and expert in blog technologies, shows the technologies behind the building blocks of rss feeds and publishing protocals and how to use make use of technology in building a web 2.0 compliant blog applications. This book is a valuable resource for Java & C# developers as it contains numerous examples, demonstrate how to parse and generate valid news feeds. RSS & Atom in Action aimed at programmers that want to build blog applications that handle RSS/Atom feeds. In addition, the samples and software that comes with the book are available online.
Amazon Rating – 4/5
Visit David M. Johnson’s blog
Microsoft is releasing a technology preview of an extension to Visual Studio that’s supposed to simplify a key aspect of web development: figuring out which pieces should run on the client, versus that which should execute back on the server. The new tool, code-named Volta, was developed to simplify web programming with a declarative interface, and it provides Microsoft’s response to the Googl.
Read full story at
ComputerWire via Yahoo!7 News
General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal said on Wednesday it will allow personal Web sites to link to video snippets of NBC programs such as “Access Hollywood,” underscoring the Internet as a growing destination for video entertainment.
Read full story at
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Caspio Bridge v5.0 empowers users with no-programming way to create then deploy database-driven web applications, forms, and reports to any website. Along with flexible options to customize layout and design of application interfaces, program includes wizards for adapting applications to any region and country. Relational DataPages, also included, offer features for managing information and …
Read full story at
ThomasNet
IBM is undoubtedly one of the oldest computer technology companies, but it may be on the cutting edge when it comes to deploying newfangled agile programming methodologies.
Read full story at
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News
TopCoder(R), Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development, today announced the finalists for the first ever TopCoder High School global programming tournament hosted by Purdue University. Forty-seven elite competitors from the U.S., China, Russian Federation, Australia, Poland, Romania, Kazakhstan, Canada, Bulgaria, Croatia and the …
Read full story at
SYS-CON Media
NaviSite, Inc., a leading provider of application solutions, hosting and content delivery services, today announced that CrushedPlanet has selected NaviSite’s Content Delivery Network to bring innovative Internet programming to audiences worldwide. Developed by the Emmy-winning, cutting-edge producers Joe and Harry Gantz, CrushedPlanet is an Internet network of exclusive programming presented …
Read full story at
Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance
An ABI Research study estimates that by the end of 2007 mobile marketing and advertising will be worth about $3 billion, and up to $19 billion by 2011. But few studies say how effective mobile marketing is and what works.
Mobile marketing definitely seems to be more promising and compelling for marketers as there’s a greater flexibility to reach the consumer – instantly. Yahoo and several other websites are slowly coming up with innovative ways to introduce mobile marketing. Today websites offer free sms facilities, sms yellow pages and even sms classifieds are on the rise. Many blogging systems also provides an option to publish on Mobile platform.
Microsoft Experts present a series of LIVE webcasts on the newest technologies: AJAX, Silverlight and Orcas. Be the first to know about them and get behind the driving wheel of developing next generation applications.
Notes:
- Each Webcast / Live Meeting Session has a Maximum Capacity of 200 participants. You are advised to join in the Live Meeting Session 15 minutes prior to the scheduled time to ensure your participation
- You need to register for each Webcast that you intend to attend. Registering for one Webcast does not register you for all webcasts in the series.
Webcasts on Next Generation Web
There are two primary complaints about the long-term viability of social media sites. The first is how to monetize them. The second is how to keep your best content producers from heading off to another site. After all, as goes the content, so go the users. It seems that YouTube has decided to address this issue by not only monetizing popular content with ads, but also by finally putting a revenue share option in place to help keep popular video producers at the site.
Recent Comments