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SonicSwap Puts Your iTunes Library On The Web For Streaming And Sharing 
Jason Kincaid via Ajax Blog on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
Since the launch of YouTube’s API and the release of Seeqpod, we’ve seen many sites emerge that allow users to create playlists of their favorite songs that can be streamed free of charge. Unfortunately, this can be
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Do it yourself first
David via Ajax Blog on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
You should never hire anyone for something you haven’t first struggled to do on your own. It’ll teach you most of what you need to know to actually interview candidates, it’ll allow you to understand the nature of the work better (do I even need to hire or can we outsource?), and you’ll know exactly what a job well done will look like. It’ll also give you a sense of whether the job is
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JanRain Promotes OpenID Adoption Through The Long Tail
Mark Hendrickson via Ajax Blog on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
JanRain, creator of some of the most popular OpenID software libraries and a forum-like communications tool called Pibb, has released a new SaaS offering for websites that want to become relying parties for OpenID.
We’re told that the
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Sazell Gets A Much Needed Facelift, Overhauls Its Widgets
Jason Kincaid via Ajax Blog on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
Sazell, the startup that launched last July with widgets that let you “snap the web”, has launched a new version of its site that includes a badly needed
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Poptent Lets Brands Crowdsource Advertising On The Cheap
Jason Kincaid via Ajax Blog on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
Poptent, a startup that crowdsources advertising to the public, has just launched in public beta. The site allows advertisers and brands to post requests for an ad, which are then produced and submitted by the pool of small studios an
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Reframe It Retreads Web Annotation As A Browser Add-On
Erick Schonfeld via Ajax Blog on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
The idea of annotating the Web has been around for a long time. It goes back to a failed Web 1.0 startup called Third Voice. Today there are a handful of Web startups (Diigo, Fleck, Stickis, ShiftSpace, TrailFire) that let yo
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Mufin: An Automated Music Recommendation Engine That Actually Works
Jason Kincaid via Ajax Blog on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
Whenever we get introduced to a site that features some kind of “digital fingerprinting technology” to power a music recommendation engine, it’s hard not to be skeptical. Fingerprinting works well for identifying the same song in multiple places - for example, duplicat
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Aptana Jaxer 1.0 RC
Dion Almaer via Ajax Blog on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
The Jaxer team has released a release candidate for Jaxer 1.0.
Here a synopsis of all the new features and improvements that have gone into this latest release candidate:
Jaxer.Sandbox: HTTP-level control; support readySta
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Extreme JavaScript Performance; John Resig on Ars
Dion Almaer via Ajax Blog on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
Ars Technica has a new columnist, John Resig. His first piece is on Extreme JavaScript Performance which has started to come to us in abundance recently!
His article focuses on the latest updates to the fish, SquirrelFish Extreme:
A popular technique that is gaining tract
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LP33.tv’s Innovative Music Site Launches To The Public
Jason Kincaid via Ajax Blog on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
LP33.tv, the experimental music site that was once called myAWOL (but changed its name to avoid confusion with MyAOL), has launched to the pub
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MySpace And HP Team Up To Help You Print Out Those Drunken Photos
Jason Kincaid via Ajax Blog on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
MySpace has partnered with computer giant Hewlett-Packard to introduce a number of new print options to the popular social networking site. Beginning in November, users will be able to click an HP-branded “Print” box embedded on t
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Mozilla Geode Released With Support From Pownce and Fire Eagle
Mark Hendrickson via Ajax Blog on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
Mozilla has posted more information about Geode, the Labs plugin we foreshadowed yesterday that helps websites detect your current location. G
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Kampyle Helps You Understand Why Nobody Is Installing Your Software
Roi Carthy via Ajax Blog on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
Instead of dwelling on whether an economic apocalypse is about to loom upon us, some startups are plugging away at improving their products. Israeli
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Fight Spam With A Direct Message To Twitter
Mark Hendrickson via Ajax Blog on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
There doesn’t appear to have been an official announcement, but Twitter has begun soliciting spam reports to a “spam” user account via direct messages.
Are you a victim of Twitter spam? Just begin following @spam and send it a direct message with the usernam
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SimplyBox: Drag-And-Drop Clips Of The Web For Research, Sharing
Jason Kincaid via Ajax Blog on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Web bookmarks are badly in need of an overhaul. Sure, they’re fine for jumping to the dozen or so sites you visit on a daily basis, but they quickly become unwieldy whenever they’re used for research purposes. Folders of bookmarked job listings or apartment open
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SearchMe Calls Out Yahoo On BOSS Screenshot
Michael Arrington via Ajax Blog on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
SearchMe, a new Sequoia-backed search engine that launched in March, isn’t happy with some of the screen shots that have been
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SMIL 3.0 Reaches Proposed Recommendation
Dion Almaer via Ajax Blog on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (or SMIL) 3.0 has now become a proposed recommendation at the W3C. SMIL hasn’t been widely used, but some of it is widely supported thanks to ACID tests that had the browser vendors put it in.
3.0 has the following goals:
Define an XML-based language that allows authors
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Ajaxified Body; When to refresh the page
Dion Almaer via Ajax Blog on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Matt Raible has posted on the Ajaxified Body pattern, that loads content into the main area instead of reloading an entire page.
The surrounding template stays put, and the red area changes when you have an action:
This is an old question:
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