More and more people are turning toward web applications and what this means naturally is more people vulnerable to cyber criminals. Large applications with many users have to be particularly careful with security in the web applications. I’m not saying every web application shouldn?t take careful consideration to security but those dealing with a lot of personal information have to be particularly careful. Yahoo News had an article on this particular subject.
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The Undersigned.net had an article on why business blogs are important. Most businesses believe that blogs aren’t for business. It becomes to personal and many try to hide behind the corporate face. The article lists 10 reasons on why it is important to business blogs. I agree with a lot of them and do think its good for businesses to blog. I’ll review his reasons and give my opinion on each.
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Builder.com has an article about JBoss’s recent project typing AJAX and Java together. Their open source framework is called Seam. Google has a similar AJAX toolkit for Java programmers as well.
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PC World had an article last week about the number on finance websites. The most popular is Yahoo by far and MSN at a distant second. Google just recently launched its finance site and ranks 42nd on a list tabulated by Hitwise.
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The New York Times had an article about AJAX web applications on the web to use in place of desktop applications. The article says computer hardware has reached a point where its very inexpensive to pick up a pretty good system. The software however ends up costing even more than the hardware. Google has bought Writely a web based word processor and also released a preview of its spreadsheet software.
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Last week, there was an article on Computerworld stating that Microsoft is still working on its Atlas framework for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). The Atlas framework is said to not displace the JavaScript technology with its own Microsoft technology.
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Technology review posted an article on the evolution of the web browser. There are many extensions and plug ins for web browsers as well as entire programs using the browsers application engine. These changes mange it easier for social activities, blogging, RSS feeds and other things of that nature. New browsers such as IE 7 and Firefox 2 will be out in the near future offering customers better technology than those available to us today.
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Google released Google Browser Sync an extension for Firefox users to sync bookmarks, history, cookies, and saved passwords. I had been looking for something that could make it easy to sync different things on my computer. I had found a program called Syncopation to sync my iTunes library. MySync allows syncing of Mail, Address Book, iCal and Safari. I’m a Firefox user and these products only work on Mac OS X however and Google Browser Sync works on all platforms and syncs through my Google account as opposed to broadcasting like a server in my network.
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Last week Computerworld released numbers about search engine market share. The leader Google grabbed 59.3% followed by Yahoo at 22% with MSN at 12.1% in third. Google has held the lead for a long time now, but search engine competitors are always attempting to improve their engines in order to regain market share from the giant.
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Google has released a test version of their Google Spreadsheet software. You can sign up to be on the list to try out the new software. Like GMail it’s a web baased application using AJAX as its key method for transportation. This is another Web 2.0 example and another transition from desktop applications to web applications. Now I don’t think all desktop applications will be replaced by web applications anytime soon, there is definitely a strong push to develop the ones that are possible at this time.
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