Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Well, actually, no: -- it's not just hype, but it's equally true that there is really no earthshaking new technology involved. 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. That's Ajax as well. A further look.

AJAX 40

AJAX Application Hype Test 40

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. appear to be incremental improvements and not the radical changes that will be coming from more of a context computing approach, based on location, role, time, function. So why all this hype if the technology is not really all that brand new?

AJAX 40

AJAX Technique Mashup Hype 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. What’s to lose?

Open 100

Open Platform Kintera API 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before. But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0,

Web 100

Web Folksonomy AJAX Hype 100