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Certain vulnerabilities within Ajax applications can allow malicious hackers to reek havoc with your applications. Identity theft, unprotected access to sensitive information, browser crashes, defacement of Web applications, and Denial of Service attacks are just a few of the potential disasters Ajax applications can be prone to and which developers need to guard against when building Ajax capabilities into their applications. Regular developerWorks author Judith Myerson suggests some application-strengthening tools, including Firefox tools and add-ons, which you can use to improve or solve security problems within your Ajax applications.

The news may overflow with stories about the social networking giants, such as Facebook and MySpace, but a horde of companies are doing ...

Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power our own applications.

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Should your company offer an API for outside developers to build on? Should you engage in one of the fast growing developer platforms or with another company's API? There's a world of options opening up to leverage cross-site functionality and data exchange, but there are also some serious questions to ask about this emerging paradigm. [img: Flickr Mashups by David Wilkinson]

nferring and Visualizing Social Networks on IRC screenshot PieSpy is an IRC bot that monitors a set of IRC channels. It uses a simple set of heuristics to infer relationships between pairs of users. These inferrences allow PieSpy to build a mathematical model of a social network for any channel. These social networks can be drawn and used to create animations of evolving social networks. PieSpy has also been used to visualize Shakespearean social networks. This page got slashdotted on 11 March 2004, with the site getting 250,000 hits per hour. Thanks to Notnet for making sure it all stayed alive! PieSpy was presented at the Information Visualization conference (IV'04) in July 2004. Read the full paper online. It has also appeared in Computer Weekly, c't magazine, and I was interviewed live on BBC Radio Kent.

From building a social networking website to providing a robust corporate intranet for internal collaboration, ConcourseConnect is a flexible solution that can be tailored to virtually any company or organization's needs.

An open source framework for building search clustering engines. It can automatically organize small collections of documents, e.g. search results, into thematic categories. Carrot2 can add clustering of search results to an existing search engine. Its algorithms should successfully cluster up to about a thousand text documents, a few paragraphs each.

Quest for perfect search engine - Clustering :-> http://abhishekmehta.com/apache-roller-4/blogs/entry/quest_for_perfect_search_engine

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Finally something to really get 4G WiMax going- the addition of Cisco as a partner to build the network hardware. Get ready for full-fledged cell phone video conferencing.

IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for building and debugging embedded applications for the ARM microprocessor. It includes a C/C++ compiler able to achieve a high level of optimization, thus generating a very compact and efficient FLASH/PROMable code.

If you're looking to build a smart Battery charger/selector, then the PICREF-5 Reference Design, is going to make your task a lot easier now!

You will probably find an increasing number of businesses putting their brand presence in social media sites. Several big brands (and also small brands) are using Twitter and Facebook to build relationships with their fan base. Conversely, there are also many businesses who are (very) skeptical about this whole idea. Are you that stubborn businessman who is unwilling to try new social media tools? If you are, you will most probably agree with the points below but look out for the counter-arguments!

Seoandwebdesign.co.cc offers professional SEO Services like directory submissions, manual article submission, link building and Social media optimization. Seoandwebdesign.co.cc is Offshore SEO Expert Company from India offering SEO & Web design Services.

If you work for a company and you build up your Twitter Followers or Facebook friends from the hours of 8am-5pm (or whatever your daily work hours are)…who owns those connections made during those hours?

In the music business Corey Smith can be considered a case study, as he has been capable of raising millions of dollars giving away his music for free and building at the same time a closer relationship with his fans... (continue...)

Google and other members of the IT industry recently joined at Google Data Centre Efficiency Submit at Calif, Mountain View, to discuss best practices for building and measuring data center efficiency. The idea behind this submit is tosave resources such as electricity and water is not just good for the environment, it makes good business sense too. Being "green" reduces operating costs and can keep our industry competitive; it is this economic advantage that makes efficiency truly sustainable.

Concrete CMS, developer of next- generation open source solutions for web sites, today announced general availability of concrete5, the latest version of its popular open source Content Management System (CMS). concrete5 combines the ease-of-use of a blogging platform with the flexibility and power of a web development platform. To date, thousands of advertising and creative agencies and web developers around the world have downloaded early versions of concrete5 and used the technology to quickly and inexpensively build sophisticated web sites that can be updated by end users

"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing. "

"Along with HTML5 Boilerplate's rock solid commitment to cross-browser consistency, H5BP brings you delicious documentation, a site optimizing build script, and a custom boilerplate builder. In addition to this, we now support lighttpd, Google App Engine, and NodeJS with optimized server configurations (along with Apache, Nginx, and IIS) and we've reduced the overall size of the published boilerplate by 50%."