OpenAjax Alliance Announces New Initiatives at AJAXWorld
The OpenAjax Alliance revealed new standards and open source initiatives for secure mashups, AJAX on mobile devices, and a unified browser wish-list from AJAX toolkit suppliers. AJAX is the technology behind most Web 2.0 applications, including the increasingly popular 'mashup,' a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience, and Web 'gadgets,' which can be placed into Web pages and social network sites.
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
