Kapow Technologies today announced the general availability of version 6.2 of the Kapow Mashup Server, a set of patent-pending technologies that enable companies to collect, connect and mashup everything on corporate intranets as well as the World Wide Web.

ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, today announced that it has surpassed 250,000 registered users within its ThinkFree Online community (http://www.thi nkfree.com/).

Fast Search & Transfer (OSEAX: FAST.OL) (FAST), a leading developer of search technologies, and InfoSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ:INSP), a leading developer of mobile platform services, today announced a partnership to deliver a next-generation white label ASP mobile search service that will enable carriers to take more control over their content business models, and provide a richer mobile search experience to customers. The two companies, with more than 20 years combined experience in the search industry, have deployed more white label mobile search solutions worldwide than any other provider.

Pop quiz: what company both doubled its annual revenue in 2006 and closed a $26.25 million round of funding? Clue: it also tracked 290,000 downloads of its RIA platform and lined up IBM, Walmart.com, H&R Block, Monster, Barclays Global and Pandora as customers. Extra clue: it also announced project 'Orbit' which will allow developers using its platform to compile into Java Mobile and run it on devices.

SOA World 2007 East Conference & Expo and Enterprise Open Source 2007 East Conference & Expo, both to be held June 25-26, 2007, in New York City, announced that the conference 'Call for Papers' is now open. Topics include all development and management aspects of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture plus all development and management aspects of Open Source technology.

Interest in Enterprise Web 2.0 has until now been focused primarily on blogs and wikis. These tools enhance the collaborative experience of knowledge workers and consumers by fostering improved sharing of unstructured data such as procedures, instructions and e-mail text. In contrast, there has been very little discussion about how Web 2.0 tools can enhance access to the structured data that drive the business. Now, for the first time, there is a new generation of tools and technologies that can significantly improve business productivity, by helping information workers find and use the data they need to do their jobs.

The number of mobile workers globally will soon be more than double the total U.S. population, according to predictions by another analyst firm, IDC Corp. IDC has predicted that in two years there will be 878 million mobile workers linked to their corporate headquarters by notebook PCs, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the already ubiquitous cell phone.

Stowe Boyd, internationally recognized authority on social tools and their impact on business and society and editor of /Message, the blog on 'what is happening at the edge, and its impact on the center,' will be speaking at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, being held 19-21 March at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East speaker John Eckman has been summarizing on his blog a recent digital fracas between Lawrence Lessig and Nick Carr on what it means to be a Web 2.0 company.

Dean Allemang will present a session entitled 'How to Use RDFa to Build Semantic Mash-ups' at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, March 19-21, 2007, in New York City. Semantic Mash-ups ('SMash-ups') are combinations of information from multiple sources using the W3C Semantic Web languages (RDF and OWL) to control merging and filtering of the mashed-up data. We present a system for building Smash-ups from many different kinds of Web sources, including RDF source, databases, and Web pages (via RDFa, the RDF in HTML proposal). The SW standards allow you to define filters on the SMash-up display from simple to complex: e.g., 'all the places I need to be on Saturday,' 'the times of all my appointments, but the descriptions for only the professional ones.'

Sun Microsystems has announced Sun Startup Essentials, a new program designed to enable early-stage companies to run their businesses on Sun's enterprise-class technologies at a cost that fits their budgets. The program will offer eligible startups a range of Sun products and services at significant discounts, including its award-winning Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) and CoolThreads servers powered by the most advanced operating system on the planet, the Solaris Operating System (OS).

Corporate IT has always been centered on application development and maintenance. Each evolution of computing, from mainframe to client/server to web 1.0, brings dramatically improved efficiency, significantly lowered costs and new business opportunities. Web 2.0 is not different either. The web 2.0 technology stack offers real, tangible, and measurable benefits to enterprises as a better way to build, deploy and maintain enterprise IT solutions, resulting in better user productivity, lower operations costs and reduced development and maintenance costs:

There is more to Web 2.0 content than just Web 2.0 widgets. While some may not know, XML is the fabric of Web 2.0 applications. Web 2.0 or Rich Internet Applications are popular due to the interactive content on the browser. Developers building these applications will benefit from increasing XML usage beyond the browser widget - bringing this XML content into the data server. By making XML more integral to the Web 2.0 applications, developers have a new means for building high-performance Web 2.0 applications more quickly while maintaining the flexibility in the design for future data management requirements. IBM's Chris gruber will help you learn how this can be achieved. This session is suitable for audiences with basic knowledge of XML.

In this presentation, the speaker will separate the Web 2.0 buzz from reality. He will show how application developers are using PHP, AJAX and Flex to create rich Internet applications that are transforming user experiences. He will present what developers are doing 'right now' to design RIAs that combine the best of traditional graphical user interface applications with the wide reach of Web-based access, leading to better user experiences and happier customers.

Etelos provides on-demand, customizable Web applications on the hosting environment that you choose. The Etelos Ecosystem for developing and deploying on-demand applications is revolutionizing the world of software distribution; you can install an application today and then get the source code to customize and mold that application to fit your unique business needs. On the Etelos Store, developers can sell applications, businesses can try applications and Internet service providers can offer hosting services; in one Ecosystem with all the features of software as a service (SaaS) and all the flexibility of custom development.

'It's clear that many of the services we consume and manage going forward will be services that exist outside of the enterprise, such as subscription services from guys like Salesforce.com, or perhaps emerging Web services marketplaces,' says David S. Linthicum, who will be giving a session at SOA Web Services Edge 2007 in New York City in June.

SameDesk is a first realization of OpenSpot's effort. In its core, SameDesk may be described as a virtual desktop environment where applications serving directly from different web sites and domains are allowed to work together seamlessly and securely for the users. The interoperability is enabled by a technology refered as XDDE, or Cross Domain Data Exchange. SameDesk is also enhanced with various advanced graphical and interactive features which make the web experience truly refreshing and intuitive. Third party applications can take full advantage of these front-end features with minimal effort. The team is developing a number of e-commerce service applications based on this environment. And they encourage developers of any interests to try out the environment.

According to Evans Data Corp's latest Web Services Development Survey, Web Services with Web 2.0 interfaces are surging. Evans Data finds this in the rising use of AJAX, a key component of the Web 2.0 architecture. Close to half of developers surveyed say they are already working with AJAX or plan to do so in the coming year. REST (Representational State Transfer) use is rising as well. The Evans Data survey found a 37% increase in respondents implementing or considering REST, with one out of four surveyed saying that they are considering REST-Based Web Services as a simpler alternative to SOAP-based services.

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) describe what the software development community aims to do; break out of primitive Web delivery to deliver robust functionality, exciting data visualization and 'thicker,' role-based and process-oriented user interfaces. These types of RIAs are now possible.

Analyst firm explains Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Application leadership through flexible, open product platform and deep expertise with over 5,000 successful deployments at large, highly dispersed enterprises Burlington, MA 3/4 February 20, 2006 3/4 Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced that a new, independent research report by The Clipper Group discusses Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform and its ability to integrate disparate business applications and processes into a 'smooth composite, single user interface' for end users anytime, anywhere.

Pop quiz: what company both doubled its annual revenue in 2006 and closed a $26.25 million round of funding? Clue: it also tracked 290,000 downloads of its RIA platform and lined up IBM, Walmart.com, H&R Block, Monster, Barclays Global and Pandora as customers. Extra clue: it also announced project 'Orbit' which will allow developers using its platform to compile into Java Mobile and run it on devices.

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of theleading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web2.0 (EW2.0) applications, and Inkriti, a technology consulting company thatis a leading provider of Web 2.0 Solutions for customer-centric e-business,today announced a new 'One-Page-Reservation' application designed to makeonline hotel and motel reservations quicker and easier.

SYS-CON Events (www.sys-con.com) announced today that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West (www.ajaxworld.com) willtake place on September 24-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Centerin Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to attract over 2,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of everystripe who will be converging in Silicon Valley to attend the most comprehensive meeting on the West Coast, covering the most significant technology subjects of recent times: AJAX, Rich Internet Apps & Web 2.0.

telepark, the developers of Personal Web Applications, present a new type of Wiki software, telepark.wiki ['telepark-dot-wiki', which features an AJAX-powered interactive navigation system and caters to non-geek users. telepark.wiki enables companies and freelancers to quickly and easily publish their own Wiki application. telepark.wiki is available as a free Standard Edition and as a Professional Edition for Euro 99 excl. VAT. A wiki is a Web site that allows the visitors themselves to easily add or edit content. The authoring is done in the Web browser itself without the need for any additional software or download. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring.

SYS-CON Events (www.sys-c on.com)announced today that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East(www.ajaxworld.com), which will take place on March 19-21, 2007, will attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be converging in New York City toattend the most comprehensive meeting on the most significant technology subjects of recent times: AJAX, Rich Internet Apps & Web 2.0.

TapeTrader.com is a ColdFusion-powered, live music sharing community with over 50,000 members and a vast database cataloging hundreds of thousands of hours of live music recordings. The TapeTrader.com community connects fans together so that they can catalog, share and trade their recordings.

MB Technologies added generic SVG support to Bindows and implemented the charts, graphs, gauges and more in both VML and SVG. Bindows now presents a unified, object oriented API for creating rich Business Graphics in all supported browsers. Now developers can create complex graphics without having to deal with all the quirks of different formats and browsers. Bindows BiGauge2 class library is a comprehensive, object oriented class library for creating dynamic and advanced gauges that can contain several ranges, scales, dynamically updatable needles and more.

JackBe, provider of Enterprise Web 2.0 infrastructure solutions that integrate SOA and AJAX, announced that it has suspended all additional entrants into the recently unveiled beta program for its Presto Rich Enterprise Application (REA) platform. Announced in October 2006, the program received overwhelming interest driven by the market demand for a comprehensive solution for delivering enterprise Ajax applications based on SOA and Web services.

Ruby on Rails is what we call a full stack. A full stack meaning that it has all the components built in for doing most Web applications. Unlike a lot of other open source software, you don't have to cherry pick a lot of different packages. We try to deliver one solution in the sense of Apple delivering one solution that spans across multiple layers. We like to think of ourselves as the Apple of open source Web application development, in the sense of dealing with the database, wrapping data objects, dealing with the controller and the control flow, and getting requests coming in and dealing with template languages, and of late also dealing with AJAX on the client side, and tying all of these things together seamlessly with knowledge of each other.

What we need is a Web browser that doesn't just serve up documents, but serves up applications.' Early in 2006 I was given a design brief: a UK-based shipping company wanted to replace its shipment tracking system with a Web-based solution.

Serendipity Technologies has announced the debut of the world's first secure RSS reader. The reader, for the first time ever, will allow information workers to receive updates of protected data currently lost within their information systems.

Early in 2006, before the general Internet-using public was aware of what I began referring to ­in editorials, blog entries, and SYS-CON's Internet TV Webcasts ­as 'The AJAX Moment,' there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches, if not actually AJAX itself, were a shoo-in as the new paradigm for the development of Web 2.0 and the fulfillment of the software development community's long-held dream of complete freedom from operating system or runtime environment ­dependent technologies.

Microsoft today announced the official release to Web of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. This tool provides Web developers with the essential tools to simplify building next-generation, AJAX-style Web applications through what it calls 'seamless integration with the .NET Framework and Microsoft platform.'

At Lotusphere today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announcedthe planned availability of the IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8 publicBeta starting this February. This is the final beta phase before theproduct's target ship date of mid-2007, concluding the most collaborativesoftware review program in Lotus' history.

ActiveGrid, which bills itself as a Web 2.0 company and offers open source software to the Global 2000 in place of .NET and Java widgetry in developing rich interactive web applications, has switched CEOs. Founder Peter Yared is now CTO replaced by Christopher Keene, the founder of Persistence Software. Persistence, which specialized in managing data in high-transaction banking and communications systems, went public in 1999 and was sold to Progress Software in 2004. Keene, a McKinsey graduate, left Persistence in 2005 to work and teach in France.

Early in 2006 there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches were a shoo-in as the new paradigm for fulfilling the software development community's dream of freedom from OS or runtime environment dependent technologies. Was the early optimism borne out by subsequent events? I'll say!

In this comprehensive article Wei re-examines Web 2.0, in contrast to the common consumer-centric point of view, by looking at its technology stack and impact on enterprise computing. Wei establishes a Web 2.0 technology stack that forms the foundation of a paradigm shift he calls the 'architecture of partition.'

Gomez Inc., the leader in web application experience management, today announced a reseller partnership with Limelight Networks, the high performance content delivery network for digital media.

Even though I write for SYS-CON, I've never publicly complimented them. But this time they really deserve a credit. SYS-CON will present the AJAXWorld 2007 Conference & Expo 2007 East in March. Usually, attendees have very limited access to speakers during conferences, and SYS-CON Events came out with a simple but smart idea - yesterday they have created an Ask The Faculty Forum, where anyone can post questions to the conference speakers and faculty. And you do not even have to attend the conference to participate in this forum. It's a very nice idea, or rather 'Idea 2.0' Speakers should visit the forum and answer the questions to promote their sessions, and software developers will have a chance to correspond with well known people in the industry. Yours truly will run Adobe Flex Hands-on Workshop during this event, so feel free to post relevant questions - it does not matter if you are planning to be there or not. I'm sure, other event organizers will start copycatting SYS-CON, which is a win-win situation for everyone.

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of theleading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web2.0 (EW2.0) applications, today announced availability of the latestversion of Nexaweb Studio. Nexaweb Studio 3.0 is an Eclipse-basedIntegrated Development Environment (IDE) that offers enterprise Webdevelopers, AJAX, J2EE(TM)/Java(TM) developers and software engineers astandards-based, visual design environment for creating EW2.0 applications.