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We gave a presentation at Web2Open, part of Web 2.0 Expo Berlin. An abstract from the presentation is available here:

All available presentations are published on http://www.slideshare.net/tag/web2expoberlin

Second Life Herald is running an advertising campaign for us, promoting HybridLife.net. This is the post appeared on the site, in addition to a banner pointing to the social network.

HybridLife.net is a social network to connect Second Life residents. It is also a platform for social experiments

HybridLife.net social network is free and not affiliated with Linden Lab; it is localized in English, Danish, German, Italian and Russian, with new languages coming soon and automatic translations in other 30 languages. In addition to its Web 2.0 tools, HybridLife.net is also a platform for social experiments open to Second Life residents. The developers of the site are currently refining its variables and point system, and you are welcome to contact them to provide your feedback on the project. To summarize these social experiments: Second Life avatars can join a “tribe” (each tribe is made by ten citizens) by paying an entry fee or for free as a sponsored entrant. The entry/sponsorship fees are pooled together and awarded to winners, after an administrative fee has been deducted. Also, a share of general sponsorships revenues are offered to winners, to make the prize more attractive.

As a social experiments, and loyal to the philosopy on which Second Life has been built, this is not a one dimension game with one unique final goal. Similar to our first life, there are different categories of “winners”: top individuals, top gild, top tribe, etc. Point are awarded based on decision taken by players (as tribes and individuals) and experiment-specific objects owned by partecipants. Decision are expressed by votes.

For example, if a tribe is an open society, all its members gets a percentage increase in their points. So, that does not change how they rank against eachother, but it changes how they rank compared to other tribes. At the same time, being an open society means a higher percentage of consensus need to be achieved before taking decisions. Another example: once a gild achieve a certain number of members (its “critical mass”), all members get a percentage increase in their points. SL residents are motivated to take part in these social experiments, not only with financial rewards, but also for the desire to make a difference by taking part in a social event which can be studied and reported in the press etc.

This Second Life avatars social network is powered by European Social Network MyPacis.eu. MyPacis.eu is a Social Network with a social agenda: promoting peace by linking Europeans together and making easier to learn new common languages. It is an open source, integrated and multilingual social network, developed using Web 2.0 tools.

Technology glitterati looking to stay on the cutting edge of all things cool say Web 2.0, generally regarded as hosted services, is out of style and Web 3.0 is in. But solution providers are wary of what some are defining as the next big bang in technology.This week at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco a number of companies were touting their Web 3.0 or semantic Web credentials. Radar Networks, a San Francisco company which touts itself as a pioneer of Semantic Web or Web 3.0 technology, for example, introduced Friday the “invite beta” of Twine, a service aimed at providing a way for users to share, organize and find information more easily. Radar is touting Twine as one of the first mainstream Web 3.0 technologies.

Radar Networks Founder and CEO Nova Spivack calls Yahoo the leader of Web 1.0 and Google the leader of Web 2.0. He says it is unclear who will be the leader of Web 3.0 but Twine is a “first step.”

Solution providers warn that they are skeptical of such claims and careful to make sure their clients are not burned by bloated Web 3.0 claims.

Tyler Dikman, the CEO of Cooltronics, a Tampa, Fla. solution provider and the vice president of business strategy for FlickIM, a Berkeley Calif. communications platform vendor, said he is skeptical about Web 3.0 claims from Radar.

“This sounds like a Web 3.0 Alpha launch,” said Dikman of the Radar claims. “I think it’s pretty gutsy for a company to call themselves a Web 3.0 company when they haven’t proven themselves in the marketplace yet. Their concept is absolutely headed in the right direction, but I am skeptical about the technology until they can prove me wrong.”

“It’s all well and good for the industry to talk about and understand Web 3.0 technologies, but if the general public is unable to comprehend or utilize the technology it is worthless,” he said. “The public as a whole are just starting to embrace Web 2.0. Companies like Radar have to make sure their targeted demographic can keep up with the technology they are putting out.”

Although Radar and others are just starting to bring Web 3.0 technologies to market, the semantic Web has long been proclaimed as the next great frontier by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners Lee.

Full article on http://www.crn.com/software/202404824

At one point during the Web 2.0 Summit in

San Francisco this week, I thought I’d fallen into a time warp. I suddenly found myself listening to pitches that might have been appropriate in the 1990s at a mainframe computer convention, not a cutting-edge event like this summit is billed.

First, Adam Selipsky of Amazon spent 30 minutes touting Amazon Web Services, the back-end services that the bookseller first developed for its own operations and now pitches to small and medium-sized business. I could have been back in the days of client-server as Selipsky droned on about retail and payment systems, reliability, support–all the things near and dear to an IT manager. Then he had a spokesman for Zillow.com, the real estate site, come on and talk about how Amazon Web Services had made it easier for Zillow to operate. This was what we used to call the “reference client testimonial” in the old days. Maybe the only departure from a 1990s presentation was the slightly irreverent slogan, “We Make Muck So You Don’t Have To.”

The back-to-the-enterprise theme continued when we moved into the Launchpad segment of the conference, where six finalists vied for “Best in Show.” Spiceworks’ first slide trumpeted “160,000 IT professionals can’t be wrong” as the company touted its network monitor capability, IT asset management, and IT help desk services. Two of the other finalists also touched on those essential-but-less-than-exciting services that distinguished the old IT world. ClickForensics pitched a product to detect click fraud and CleverSet pitched its personalization product, which promises to use all available data and the latest algorithms to make sure that the ads and suggestions served up to the web surfer are the most suitable. Not surprisingly, CleverSet’s immediate practicality won it “Best in Show” and “Most Likely to Exit First,” from the audience, who voted in typical high-tech fashion by clapping.

Full article on http://www.redherring.com/blog/jdreyfuss_redherring?bid=23008

From ABC News, By SARAH LAI STIRLAND

The web-hip “community-driven” presidential debates touted by the television networks have been a disappointment so far. The events may use voter-submitted videos, instant messages and e-mails, but all that packet juice is poured into the same old, tired broadcast formula that appoints journalists as the arbiters of which questions candidates are asked — and relies on the usual small circle of pundits to analyze the answers.

A new effort aims to change all that. Launched Wednesday, 10 Questions is soliciting video questions on four of the most popular video-sharing sites and placing them in a Digg-like tool that lets the public vote them up or down. Ultimately the 10 highest-ranking videos will be submitted unedited to each of the presidential candidates, who can then produce a video response.

“We’re hacking into politics, and using interactivity and the power of online video to involve a lot more people in the process,” says Micah Sifry, co-founder of TechPresident, an internet-electioneering website and annual conference.

Backed by TechPresident with some help from The New York Times’ editorial board, 10 Questions has partnered with top political blogs on the left and right. Sifry hopes that some variation of the community-driven model might be incorporated in the final round of debates between the two major-party candidates in next year’s general election.

“The lessons learned could be used in a lot of ways — the process may be the most important part of this,” says Sifry. “We’re in the middle of a transition: In the same way we watched what YouTube did, and we watched what MySpace and MTV did, they’re going to watch us.”

In the CNN-YouTube debate in July, it was CNN producers who chose the online-video questions to present to candidates. Similarly, in the ongoing MySpace and MTV forums, journalists serve as filters between voters and candidates. TechPresident’s goal is to provide U.S. voters the leading role in controlling the much-touted national dialogue with the presidential candidates.

The project’s organizers are hoping to do that with social software designed to enable “the crowd” to speak responsibly with a collaborative voice. They plan to keep their online voting system simple, and audit the tallied votes.

The point, says Sifry, is to create a large-scale online forum with the same rhetorical attributes that characterize physical town-hall meetings, instead of tweaking a commercial broadcast medium that provides candidates with 30 seconds to advertise their personalities and positions.

The project grew out of a collaboration between TechPresident and David Colarusso, a 28-year-old Somerville, Massachusetts, physics teacher. Colarusso participated in YouTube’s Spotlight feature earlier this year.

Spotlight allowed voters to post video questions for the presidential candidates on YouTube. The candidates then picked which questions they wanted to answer, and posted their video responses online. The feature spanned several weeks.

Both Democrat John Edwards and Republican candidate Mitt Romney posted video responses to Colarusso’s questions. But Colarusso found the candidates’ responses lacking. Both he and other Spotlight participants thought that YouTube should have had a feature that enabled them to express dissatisfaction with a candidate’s answer.

He ended up building the feature himself at a site he established, called Community Counts. He urged CNN producers to turn over control of the video selection in the YouTube-CNN debate to his online community, but was ignored. Community Counts logged 6,000 unique visitors and 30,000 votes by the time the Democratic round of the debate was over. The site’s voting features have now been incorporated into 10 Questions.

In explaining the importance of eliciting the electorate’s input versus that of a few “experts” earlier this year, Colarusso alluded to The New Yorker writer James Surowiecki’s popular book The Wisdom of Crowds. The book posits that if four basic conditions are met, a crowd’s “collective intelligence” will produce better outcomes than a small group of experts. The conditions are: diverse opinion among the crowd’s members, members’ independence from each other, a good method for aggregating opinions and decentralization.

Read the full story on http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=3751616&page=3

Thanks to O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, media have been floaded with Web 2.0 related articles and opinions. We are going to review the top stories soon. For now, enjoy some information about the US conference itself.

The Fourth Annual Web 2.0 Summit

Only the Web 2.0 Summit (formerly named Web 2.0 Conference) brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together in one place at one time. The Summit is known for its interactive format, stressing audience interaction and participation. Through incisive plenary sessions, cut-through-the-hype onstage conversations, rapid-fire “high order bits” and “show me” presentations and in-depth workshops, visionaries and executives from Internet businesses will present their unique perspective on the Web’s future-in-flux. You’ll learn what business models are working, what’s next on the horizon, and how all of this will affect your own business. We’ve built in plenty of time for catching up with old friends and making new acquaintances, and for connecting with the leaders and technologists redefining the Web’s business opportunities. Web 2.0 Summit is brought to you in partnership with O’Reilly Media, Inc. and CMP Technology and moderated by John Battelle, Program Chair, and O’Reilly CEO and founder, Tim O’Reilly.

Attendance at Web 2.0 Summit is limited to maintain an intimate setting and foster dialogue among all participants. Registration is by invitation only.

Discovering the Web’s Edge

Web 2.0 Summit focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and defines how the Web will drive business in the future. What began as a focused gathering on the implications of the Web becoming a platform has transformed into an industry event focused on the latest Internet innovations—the services, applications, businesses, and models—that are redefining the way companies do business and how people live.

In 2004, Web 2.0 focused on one big idea: The Web has become a platform, a foundation upon which thousands of new forms of business would emerge. In 2005, at the second annual Web 2.0 Conference, we focused on the idea of “Revving the Web” - with the platform in place, we highlighted emerging innovations, with a particular emphasis on the entertainment, communications and IT industries. Last year, in 2006, we highlighted the widespread disruptions the web has created in traditional business models and also discussed the opportunities those disruptions created and how that has affected both the giants and the industry as a whole.

Surprising as it may seem, the Web has not infiltrated every industry–yet. So this year, we’ll delve into nascent innovation and attempt to parse the only-just-beginning-to-be-discovered territory at the edges of the Web. In 2007, we’ll slip past the mainstream and follow instead the road less traveled, the path taken by visionaries and those inspired by forces other than the tried and true. Who are the major players willing to take on new challenges, and the Davids that hold the promise of becoming Goliaths? What Web shortcomings still need to be overcome if we are to truly take the plunge into the next generation–and convince the next generation that we are listening? How can we respond positively to the cultural sea change the Web poses rather than being engulfed by it?

Join us at the fourth annual Web 2.0 Summit, as we journey to the Web’s edge and learn to navigate at the boundaries together.

The “Who’s Who” of the Internet

Now in its fourth year, Web 2.0 Summit has become the gathering place for business leaders of the new Web - it reflects and embodies the community - bringing together the most influential to discuss and debate the most important issues and strategies driving the Internet economy and what we might expect in the coming year.

• 70+ thought leaders and entrepreneurs slated to present in an interactive format stressing audience participation
• More than a dozen extraordinary thinkers and business leaders will present “High Order Bits” - ten minute stand-and-deliver presentations designed to provoke, delight, and amaze the audience
• Top executives from platform businesses will address the future of the Web in plenary sessions
• We’ll focus on innovative new web technologies in our expert led-workshops
• Third annual Launch Pad event featuring presentations by a select group of start-ups
• A variety of unique networking events including receptions, dinners and evening parties

The Web 2.0 Summit connects the leaders and technologists opening the Web’s business opportunities. Conference attendance is limited to maintain an intimate setting and foster dialogue among all participants.

These are same of the presentation give:

A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg
Speaker(s): Mark Zuckerberg
Presentation Date: 10/17/2007
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High Order Bit
Speaker(s): Mary Meeker
Presentation Date: 10/18/2007
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High Order Bit
Speaker(s): Dan Scheinman
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High Order Bit
Speaker(s): Niall Kennedy
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High Order Bit
Speaker(s): Bill Tancer
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High Order Bit
Speaker(s): Evan Williams
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High Order Bit
Speaker(s): Adam Selipsky
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High Order Bit
Speaker(s): Jeff Huber
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Show Me
Speaker(s): Anssi Vanjoki
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Show Me
Speaker(s): Ted Leonsis Jason Hogg
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The Advertising Platform
Speaker(s): Michael Walrath Sergio Monsalve
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An important Web 2.0 event, previously hold only in San Francisco, is coming to Europe. This is the official description:

To meet the increasing demand for Web 2.0 comprehension and skills, and to build a broader European Web 2.0 community, O’Reilly Media and CMP Technology have launched Web 2.0 Expo Berlin to take place 5-8 November, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. A companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, it is the conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.

This event should be relevant for:

Developers
UI/UX Designers
Entrepreneurs and VCs
Product managers
Business strategists
Marketing professionals
CIOs/CTOs
Web operations professionals
Freelance developers, hackers and designers
Companies and organizations tracking emerging technologies
Bloggers

Full event information on http://berlin.web2expo.com/

 Some background information the state of social networks in Europe. First, I would like to make a distinction between European Social Networks and Social Networks in Europe. The latter, being Web 2.0 sites which started targeting users elsewhere, and then moved to Europe to gain bigger market share on a global base. They main advantages? They can benefit from massive financing, at least compared to European counterparts, and they already have millions of use.

MySpace.com is an example of  Social Network in Europe. Orkut is another example, with a difference: developed as side-projects by a Google employee, it became so popular in Brazil that some Orkut groups in English put disclaimers, inviting members to post only in English and not Brazilian.

Truly European Social Networks  can be divided in two categories: local social networks and pan-European social networks. Local social networks can be found everywhere in Europe: Neogen.ro, Grono.net, IWIW.HU, Rate.ee, etc. They are extremely successful in their home Countries, and expanding into new ones.

Pan-European social networks are European Social Networks which are successful in several European countries, and were born with this mission. A leading example is NetLog, previously called Facebox, which was the first real champion with many users living in the European Union.

Of course, our own social network belongs to this category. http://www.mypacis.eu/ is a European Social Network with a social agenda: promoting peace by linking Europeans together. It is an open source, integrated and multilingual social network, developed using Web 2.0 tools with a European prospective. At the best of my knowledge, there are many North American sites connecting agents of change and many targeting European users, but no pan-European Social Network hosting volunteering and activism projects all across Europe.

Questions about social networks and other Web 2.0 services “made in Europe”? Let us know!

Frank

Even if we do not aim to be a “technical blog” about Web 2.0, focusing on benefits for end-users, we cannot avoid to talk about Ajax.

As Wikipedia says, it  is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is intended to increase the web page’s interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability.

Ajax is asynchronous in that XML data loading does not interfere with normal HTML and JavaScript page loading. JavaScript is the programming language in which Ajax function calls are made. Data retrieved using the technique is commonly formatted using XML, as reflected in the naming of the XMLHttpRequest object from which Ajax is derived.

Ajax is a cross-platform technique usable on many different operating systems, computer architectures, and Web browsers as it is based on open standards such as JavaScript and XML, together with open source implementations of other required technologies.

AJAX: WHY?
Tired of having to wait for the next HTML page to show up before seeing the effect of your actions? Ajax style programming overcomes the page loading requirements of HTML/HTTP-mediated web pages. Ajax creates the necessary initial conditions for the evolution of complex, intuitive, dynamic, data-centric user interfaces in web pages—the realization of that goal is still a work in progress.

Web pages, unlike native applications, are loosely coupled, meaning that the data they display are not tightly bound to data sources and must be first marshaled (set out in proper order) into an HTML page format before they can be presented to a user agent on the client machine. For this reason, web pages have to be re-loaded each time a user needs to view different datasets. By using the XMLHttpRequest object to request and return data without a re-load, a programmer by-passes this requirement and makes the loosely coupled web page behave much like a tightly coupled application, but with a more variable lag time for the data to pass through a longer “wire” to the remote web browser.

For example, in a classic desktop application, a programmer has the choice of populating a tree view control with all the data needed when the form initially loads, or with just the top-most level of data—which would load more quickly, especially when the dataset is very large. In the second case, the application would fetch additional data into the tree control depending on which item the user selects. This functionality is difficult to achieve in a web page without Ajax. To update the tree based on a user’s selection would require the entire page to re-load, leading to a very jerky, non-intuitive feel for the web user who is browsing the data in the tree.

AJAX: LINKS
Dmoz editors accepted these Ajax-related links in their directory:

• Adaptive Path - AJAX: A New Approach to Web Applications - Seminal article which popularized “AJAX” as a term.
• Ajax and XUL - Ajax and XML-related tutorials. XUL authoring. The Xul Dev project.
• AJAX by Mozilla Developer Center - A comprehensive guide on getting started with AJAX including articles, tutorials and links to other useful websites.
• Ajax Cookbook - A web site devoted to publishing small, reusable snippets of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS that are generally useful to developers of Ajax web sites.
• AJAX Courseware - Full color AJAX courseware suitable for 3-day training focusing on real-world topics such as using SOAP envelopes, processing JSON data and building an online word processor.
• AJAX Cross-browser Implementation - A guide to implementing cross-browser AJAX websites using the Sarissa library.
• Ajax Daddy - Offers a collection of scripts using Ajax.
• AJAX Goals - AJAX community website featuring articles, books, blogs, news and libraries.
• Ajax Impact - A portal on Ajax containing news, articles, tutorials, toolkits, sites using Ajax, Ajax Demos etc.
• AJAX in Java - Jaxcent provides a Java API for DOM. Allows trusted sites to do AJAX style programming without JavaScript.
• Ajax Lessons - Resource for ajax tutorials as well as information surrounding Ajax and web 2.0.
• AJAX Magazine - Reference for AJAX, Asynchronous Javascript and XML, with news, articles, tutorials, and implementations.
• AJAX Matters - An informational site providing Asynchronous JavaScript and XML development information including code libraries, sites using ajax, and books on ajax.
• Ajax Patterns - A wiki with principles, gotchas, frameworks, and common techniques. Also the homepage for the “Ajax Design Patterns” book.
• Ajax Projects - Ajax portal for all ajax projects frameworks toolkits and tutorials.
• Ajax Training - In this Ajax training course, students learn to make calls to the server with JavaScript and to manipulate XML content returned from the server.
• Ajax Training Course by Marakana - Ajax Training Course explains how to distribute the application between the client and the server by using the nested MVC design pattern. You will learn how to make your application to be flexible and maintainable.
• AJAX Training in San Francisco - A hands-on instructor led training class offered in San Francisco Bay Area. Course emphasizes practical experience and covers topics like JSON and SOAP.
• Ajax Tutorial - Ajax programming tutorials for newbies
• AJAX: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting - Tutorial article about AJAX, including a discussion about usability.
• AjaxApp.com - A forum-site for the discussion of interactive web-based application development based on Open Source Technology such as PHP, J2EE, DHTML & AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)technology
• Ajaxdo - Provides an easy, open source database persistency framework for JavaScript objects. Enables runtime loading, saving, deleting, and listing of JavaScript objects stored on the server database.
• Ajaxium - Makes ASP.NET pages and all controls AJAX-enabled but leaves them accessible to all search engines and old browsers.
• Ajaxlines - Ajaxlines is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of most of Ajax related articles, resources, tutorials and services from around the world.
• Ajax.NET - Documentation and downloads for an AJAX library that uses .NET for the backend.
• Ajax.NET Professional Library - Ajax.NET Professional is the first available .NET AJAX framework. As it is working with .NET 1.1 and 2.0 and with all common web browsers including mobile devices it is one of the greatest libraries available.
• Ajaxtalk - Asynchronous Javascript and XML discussion board.
• Anaa Framework - An AJAX API
• AsH: Top 126 Ajax Tutorials - Collection of Ajax Tutorials.
• Aspects of AJAX - Aspects of AJAX is a platform and engine for developing responsive and interactive web applications by using and extending the browser platforms to a Rich Client System.
• Atlas - Provides the implementation of AJAX technology introduced by Microsoft.
• BestAjaxScripts.com - Ajax scripts & tutorials. All scripts are absolutely free and have demos, so you can try before installing it. Also ,it has a great search tool to find the scripts and tutorials you need.
• Dajax - an ajax framework, provides a set of simple interfaces for creating web UI components and rich internet application.
• Developing Rich Internet Applications with AJAX Training Course - Hands-on AJAX training course for developers who are looking to develop Rich Internet Applications using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML technologies. Public courses available in London, UK and custom courses delivered globally.
• Direct Web Remoting - DWR - A Java open source library which helps developers wanting to write web sites that include AJAX technology.
• Dojo - the Javascript Toolkit by the Dojo Foundation
• Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object - Introduction and documentation from Apple Developer Connection.
• Encosia - ASP.NET AJAX tutorials and code examples.
• Feather Ajax - An easy-to-use light AJAX library
• Fork JavaScript - A general purpose, namespaced JavaScript library with Ajax, Events, DOM manipulation. Good documentation, subversion source repository and download.
• Free ajax scripts & tutorials - A collection of free ajaxscripts & tutorials.
• Gaia Ajax Widgets - An ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Widget library
• Google AJAXSLT - Google’s AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript for AJAX applications. Includes links for downloading.
• Google Web Toolkit - Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers taking care of browser and platform incompatibilities and modularity issues.
• Introducing the Dojo Tree Widget - An introduction to the dojo tree widget. Includes building in HTML and programmatically in javascript. Also covers RPC data binding (ala ajax)
• Jigsaw - A simple JavaScript framework for AJAX. Includes download, brief overview, and examples.
• jQuery - A fast, concise, JavaScript library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax.
• JSLog - Lightweight ajax logger. takes the place of alert() boxes for AJAX and DHTML applications.
• KFM - Kae’s File Manager - An Ajax file manager for PHP, which may be used stand-alone, or as a plugin for a rich text editor.
• Linb Framework - Provides a framework designed to allow developers to code in a more targeted, clear and efficient manner.
• miniAJAX - A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts
• MyAJAX - An object-oriented implementation for AJAX JavaScript made for ease of use.
• NanoAjax - An open source AJAX (XMLHTTPRequest) Framework with an object oriented PHP Backend. Package multiple (virtual) requests in one real AJAX request. Uses JSON for smallest data transfer.
• ONLamp.com: Ajax on Rails - Curt Hibbs demonstrates the use of Ajax within Ruby on Rails applications.
• OpenAjax Alliance - An organization of vendors, open source projects, and companies that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based web technologies. Includes list of members, news, and details of events.
• Prototype JavaScript Framework - Provides class-style OO and Ajax, freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style license.
• Purefect Desktop - Open Source Web Desktop (a.k.a Webtop and Web “OS”) that provides Web-based AJAX IDE, Instant Messenger, and its APIs.
• Rialto - Rich Internet Application Toolkit - Rialto is a cross browser javascript widgets library. Because it is technology agnostic it can be encapsulated in JSP, JSF, .Net or PHP graphic components.
• SAJA - Secure AJAX for PHP - A lightweight AJAX framework for PHP allowing encrypted data to be trasmitted over non-encrypted channels.
• SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit by ModernMethod - An open source XMLHTTPRequest toolkit with PHP, Perl, and Python backends.
• Sardalaya - Cross-browser interface that aims to make dynamic HTML programming easy and fun.
• Script.aculo.us - A collection of Web 2.0 style JavaScript libraries that help web developers add AJAX functionally to projects.
• Sote Design using prototype - The Web 2.0 style website designing using Prototype Javascript framework
• Two Birds - Provides contact info, download area for framework and link to technology prototype.
• The very popular Mastering Ajax series from IBM - The author, an Ajax expert, demonstrates how Ajax technologies work together — from an overview to a detailed look — to make extremely efficient Web development an easy reality and make you the Master of Ajax.
• wddxAJAX - ColdFusion library for AJAX - an AJAX framework for ColdFusion using WDDX protocol for exchanging data between ColdFusion and HTML page
• WebPasties : XmlHttpRequest - Detailed tutorial that explains how to creating an AJAX ZIP code database including a PHP/MySQL backend.
• xajax PHP Class Library - xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
• XMLHttpRequest and AJAX Applications - Fiftyfoureleven.com - A blog with code snippets and proofs of concept.
• The XMLHttpRequest object - Specification by W3C, of the base of AJAX.
• xWire Framework (AJAX Toolkit) - xWire is a mature, object-oriented, enterprise-class open source AJAX toolkit that contains numerous useful features and widgets.

We have been very very busy recently, working on MyPacis.Eu and other projects you will hear soon about!

The first “breaking news”: from now on, this blog will not be devoted only to the development of our social network to promote peace, but also to Web 2.0 news. Which are the new Web 2.0 services? How can Web 2.0 be used for online activism and volunteering? Etc.

We have been googling and thinking about Web 2.0 at large for long time now, thanks for suggesting us to blog about this. And please, keep going with the great feedback! Stay tuned for highlights from Web 2.0!

Frank