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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

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YourVersion and LazyFeed are two real-time discovery services that unearth blog posts, web pages and other resources about topics of interest to users. uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor.

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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry. So it's what's on my mind. XPATH promises a way out. Still seems pretty complicated? And the file is very easy for a human to read.

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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Blogging Problogger , a service trying to make some money helping people blog, has Darren Rowse's blogging advice this week in Business Blogging 101. Although oriented toward business blogs, the issues he tackles come up in non-profit blogging as well. Do they all say the same thing?

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming. Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.)

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Buzzword Buzz

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

One key development - to me perhaps the most exciting - is an approach to web development called AJAX. This is just what Ajax means to change. To make a long story really short, an Ajax application uses JavaScript to get data from the server whenever it is needed, without requiring the browser to redraw the entire page.

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Another view of this 2.0 thing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

For example, I enjoy following the discussion in EDS's Next Big Thing blog. Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies.

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Keeping up with the news

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

His most recent post describes an Ajax-based chatroom service you can add to your blog or website with just a few includes. Recently, for example, Emily interviewed gOffice , developers of a browser-based office suite. The site profiles new applications that Brian has reviewed and deemed worthy to pass on to this readers.