Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
"The Co-Web, the collaborative, media converged web, is upon us," says Andrew Donoho, Web Theorist with IBM's Emerging Internet Technology Team, who will be speaking in October at SYS-CON's 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (October 20-22, 2008).
Donoho been creating and pushing implementations of the bi-directional web since 1999 and has been extending that idea to building a Co-Web with a scalable UI for the last 18 months.
"The Co-Web is interpersonal," Donoho says, "it is about getting work done together. It is much more than surfing a YouTube/Google Map mashup while Twittering with co-workers." He will be giving a session entitled "Showtime: Bringing the Co-Web to a Screen Near You!"
Showtime, says Donoho, uses the same standards as a normal mashup - OpenAJAX plus XMPP, RTP/RTSP and H.264 - yet remakes the mashup as the Co-Web.
"It uses those same technologies to build a Co-Web page where we all interact on the same data at the same time, see the same context and make better decisions as a result," he adds.
DonOho has a long history working with both web standards and implementations. He was an early participant in crafting XHTML v1.0 and v1.1 and SVG v1.0.
He joins a faculty of industry thought leaders and practitioners that includes:
The discoverer of JSON - Douglas Crockford
The creator of jQuery - John Resig
The father of the OpenAjax Alliance - David Boloker
Engineering manager of the YUI Team at Yahoo! - Eric Miraglia
Senior Evangelist, Amazon - Jeff Barr
Architect at eBay - Michael Galpin
Director, User Interface Engineering at Netflix - BillScott
VP of Engineering at TripIt.com - Andy Denmark
Chairman & CEO of WaveMaker - Chris Keene
CSO of Curl - Jnan Dash
CTO of Pathfinder Development - Dietrich Kappe
Sun's AJAX Architect - Greg Murray
Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Apps at Sun - Arun Gupta
Senior Engineer and Designer, Yahoo! - Nate Koechley
President and senior trainer at Object Training Group - James Harmon
Lead Developer of the Qcodo Development Framework for PHP - Michael Ho
VP of Business Development at CommuniGate Systems - Jon Doyle
Sr. Developer at the creative agency Magnani Caruso Dutton - Mike Girouard
Lead Developer for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Integration Platform - Rakesh Saha
UI Architect at Edream Solutions - Sue Googe
System Operations Manager at EngineYard - Yehuda Katz
Senior Technology Evangelist at Microsoft - Laurence Moroney
Co-Founder & COO of Concept Solutions - John Krahulec
Co-Founder & COO of Finicity - Nicholas Thomas
Principal Consultant, Experience Design at Molecular - Evan Gerber
Principal Engineer, VeriSign - Karthik Shyamsunder
Chief dragon-wrangler for Komodo - Shane Caraveo
Principal Software Developer, Red Hat - Thomas Heute
Operations Manager of the OpenAjaxAlliance - John Ferraiola
Web Theorist, IBM - Andrew Donoho
Tech Lead of the Spring Faces project - Jeremy Grelle
Senior Consultant at SpringSource - Rossen Stoyanchev
AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo 2008 West The days when AJAX is the only game in town are over, and the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, on October 20-22, 2008 is your chance to come and see it and hear it for yourself.
Because it's easy to misjudge priorities and invest in the wrong technology, AJAXWorld will help you invest in the right one for your particular business. It will help you find the optimal balance between business needs, technology potential, and enhanced user experience. AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo 2008 West is where you can find what you're going to need for business survival and Web success in 2008, 2009 and beyond.
The 6th International AJAXWorld's 80+ technical sessions, Keynotes, Power Panels and General Session Demos will help you determine which Rich Internet Technology will provide the most meaningful impact in your business, organization or service. The conference program aims to inform and inspire you toward the detailed implementation plan that you're going to need in the next 12 months in your own initiative whether that's SaaS, financial services, healthcare, enterprise portals, ISV applications, or whatever.
The Expo floor additionally will allow you to follow up on the premier solutions already available and to choose which best suits your needs.
About RIA News Desk Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.
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Web Collaboration commented on 28 May 2008
>The Co-Web is interpersonal; it is about getting
> work done together. It is much more than surfing
> a YouTube/Google Map mashup while Twittering with
> co-workers.
True that!
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