Results tagged “web 2.0” from O'Reilly News

Audio: Lawrence Lessig on Congressional Reform and Internet for Everyone
Lawrence Lessig discusses Change-Congress.org, a online tool for users to tag congressional candidates as supporting or opposing reforms such as public financing, earmark reform, and congressional transparency. Lessig also responds to a few questions about InternetForEveryone.org, a coalition of public interest and industry groups working for open, universal, and affordable access to broadband.
The old client-server application versus client-only application debate is back on the Web, thanks to Ajax and RIA technologies. It's missing a long-forgotten third contender, however -- one which had significant drawbacks and very significant advantages.
10 Helpings of Dojo Goodness
In an effort to promote my recent book, Dojo: The Definitive Guide, I've been writing an ongoing column for the ONLAMP blog entitled "Dojo Goodness". The idea behind the column is to provide bite-sized chunks of useful information that are...

New O'Reilly Radar Report

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July 24, 2008 | Comments: 0
New O'Reilly Radar Report
Open Source in the Enterprise — Using open source in the enterprise — the question is no longer "if," but "how?" The low cost, easy access, and expansive license terms of open source are certainly attractive — especially since IT budgets have decreased 3-5% every year, while software costs have increased, and IT staffs have been tasked to create web services and pursue Web 2.0 initiatives.
Tim O'Reilly Reflects on 10 Years of OSCON
It's been 10 years since O'Reilly held the first OSCON. At the latest edition of O'Reilly's open source convention, Tim O'Reilly sat down with O'Reilly News to talk about the anniversary. He also reflected on how open source has changed in that period, whether Web 2.0 (a term he helped coin) has met his expectations, and how the nature of technical book publishing has changed.
Investing and the Social Networking Life Cycle
Social Networks have been around since the inception of bulleting board systems in the mid 1980s, and each one of them seems, for a time at least, to be the radical new paradigm that establishes how people will interact with one another over the web. Certainly, this seems to be the case to those investors (whether individual or corporate) who pay surprisingly stiff premiums in order to be a part of the next big wave, yet in truth social networking sites have a surprisingly consistent "life-cycle" that seems to play out regardless of the "angle" that the sites have.

Live Webcast Today at 17:00 GMT

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July 10, 2008 | Comments: 2
Live Webcast Today at 17:00 GMT
Success Factors: What traditional business really needs to know about Web 2.0 — Based on direct experience consulting in the field, and backed by O'Reilly's thought leadership on Web 2.0, this webcast is for the rest of us: executives and professionals working in "traditional" (non-Internet native) business trying to take advantage of new trends. We'll explore the underlying organizing principles and success factors in building and executing a Social Web strategy.

The webcast is live, free, and approximately 45 minutes. Join us Thursday, July 10 at 10am PDT (17:00 GMT).

New O'Reilly Radar Report

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June 24, 2008 | Comments: 0
New O'Reilly Radar Report
Velocity: Transforming Web Operations from Cost Center to Competitive Advantage — In the Web 2.0 world, web operations has moved from IT support function to mission-critical competency. In an online business, the web site is inextricably bound to the product. This report lays out the three crucial high-level principles for succeeding with web operations and performance, identifies the eight business principles that should drive web operations strategy, and describes best practices for implementing that strategy. Learn more.
Web 2.0 Meets Car 5.0
As anyone who's shopping for a car recently knows, the Web has changed car buying as drastically as it changed DVD rentals or book buying. The two forces that it brings together to empower consumers should be familiar to students of internet commerce. Firstly, it increases the amount of data available with which to negotiate, and it allows geographically distant businesses to compete for my trade.

Powering Up Ajax Development Techniques

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June 20, 2008 | Comments: 0
Powering Up Ajax Development Techniques
Dojo: The Definitive Guide — This comprehensive guide to Dojo includes a hard-hitting reference to help you build rich and responsive web applications with complex layouts and form controls closely resembling those found in the most advanced desktop applications. If you're a DHTML-toting web developer, you need to read this book.
Powering Up Ajax Apps with Dojo
The book I've been working on for the past year, Dojo: The Definitive Guide, has finally materialized and is now available on Safari. Printed copies should be available no later than this Tuesday, June 17th -- the same day Firefox...
Web 2.0 for Government 1.0
Governments should focus on making public data accessible in web-friendly formats. Here are links to an article about a study from the Princeton's Information Technology Policy Center as well as a presentation I gave at a Digital Government Summit last December.

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