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Posts tagged 'xtech'


The Right Way to do Ajax is Declaratively July 13, 2006 14:33 Don't write your interactive Web application in custom Javascript! The Web's Declarative nature needn't be broken just because you want two-way dynamic data instead of one-way documents on your site. Instead, write Declaratively to generic Javascripts, plugins and browser features such as Hijax, hInclude, XForms, SVG, XBL, etc. ... Read "The Right Way to do Ajax is Declaratively" architecture ■ ■ xtech ■ ■ declarative ■ ■ web2.0 ■ ■ microformats ■ ■ microsummaries ■ ■ ajax ■ ■ event-driven ■ ■ rest ■ ■ Web 2.0 and our Digital Rights June 23, 2006 17:58 Open Data .. has .. recently .. been.. all .. over .. the .. blog .. o .. sphere! Openness is a classic Us-and-Them issue. Big, nasty Apple/MySpace/Flickr is trying to control what little me/SingleStatus/Zoomr can do with my/our own stuff. Open Data vs. Closed; Open Source vs. Proprietary; P2P vs. DRM; privacy vs. surveillance. The battles between the freedom of the pioneer, the individual and the minority against the rules and stability of the establishment and the majority form the endless shape of human history. Us beating Them is Hollywood's favourite subject on-screen - and ironically Them fighting Us Hollywood's favourite battle off-screen. As an Us-and-Them issue, with Us less powerful than Them, it's also tempting to give up and to follow the crowd - to do what we're told, to not ask for or sieze the privacy and open data we feel entitled to. However, at XTech 2006 recently, there was a set of talks on the subject with a more positive approach. ... Read "Web 2.0 and our Digital Rights" copyright ■ ■ xtech ■ ■ declarative ■ ■ web2.0 ■ ■ socialsoftware ■ ■ digital-rights ■ ■ rest ■ ■ Microformats Challenge Web Feeds and Web APIs! June 7, 2006 19:10 Microformats are subversive: they not only challenge the approach of full-blown Semantic Web approaches, but even question fundamental Web 2.0 building blocks such as Web Feeds and Web APIs. I recently attended XTech 2006, where there were a few talks related to Microformats. After summarising these talks, I'll finish with my shocking revelations about the subversive nature of Microformats! ... Read "Microformats Challenge Web Feeds and Web APIs!" semanticweb ■ ■ xtech ■ ■ declarative ■ ■ web2.0 ■ ■ publishsubscribe ■ ■ app ■ ■ microformats ■ ■ microsummaries ■ ■ rest ■ ■ atom ■ ■