Digg: Technologies Used & Challenges Faced
This is a very interesting presentation (see below) on the technologies used to make Digg, the challenges faced along the way and how they overcame it. I would recommend it to any Web 2.0 startup architects.In short Digg uses multiple MySQL slaves with a single master, multiple load balanced PHP servers which connects to random [...]
The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor
This book is written to address the questions most people ask – From “What were you thinking when you invented it?” through “So what do you think of it now?” to “Where is this all going to take us?”, this is the story. It is not a technical book. (If you want the technical details, [...]
The future of the Web as seen by its creator – Tim Berners-Lee
According to Webster’s Online Dictionary semantic means “the relationships between symbols and what they represent.” Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, has used the term to christen the Internet of the future.The Semantic Web is a set of technologies he’s [...]
Web 2.0 is built on Open Source
Amazon uses Linux. eBay uses Windows. But what OSs and webservers run Web 2.0? We tested 17 of our favorites and found out. The script is included below to check for yourself. Read more Site Webserver Operating System Apache httpd Linux Apache httpd Linux Apache httpd 1.3.33 Linux lighttpd 1.4.13 Linux lighttpd 1.4.11 Linux Unknown [...]
Do You Know Your Web 2.0?
Do you know your Web 2.0? Take the eWEEK Emerging Technology Web 2.0 quiz. WEB 2.0 Quiz
Report Reveals AJAX on the Rise
There are now 3.5 million AJAX developers worldwide, a 50 percent increase over the past year, based on results of a survey that will be released next week. The survey, conducted by Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data Corp., will also reveal that nearly four out of five, or 78 percent, of AJAX applications are developed [...]
Andreessen wants to social network
Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen helped bring the Internet to the masses during the 1990s. Now the Netscape Communications co-founder is trying to help Web surfers build online communities outside the walls of social networking leaders MySpace.com and Facebook.com. Andreessen’s vehicle this time around is Ning Inc., a Palo Alto-based startup that he began in [...]
Office 2.0 Conference Showcases the Future of Office Productivity
What is Office 2.0?Imagine a computer that never crashes, or gets infected by a virus. Imagine a computer onto which you never have to install any application. Imagine a computer that follows you wherever you go, be it at school, at work, abroad, or back home. This computer does not exist today, but it will [...]
zoho : online office suite
There is so many online office suites available in the market.This week zoho integrated its produtcts into singl-sign-on(SSO). It looks better than google’s products writely,google spreadsheets,etc. I am trying zoho sheets, its lot better than google’s spread sheets. Will this application get the attention of google guys? what will be their reaction? Also they have [...]
AJAX – a puzzword from Web 2.0
Hello Friends, I am here to talk about a new puzzword from internet, its called AJAX. AJAX stands for Asychronous Javascript and XML.I did few samples on AJAX to know how it works. Realy its amazing, the way its reloading the part of a page. I can say it will make a major change in [...]
