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The scorching heat Monday night couldn't keep Garrett Heynen at bay, as he led Dana Naye Ventures with three goals in their 5-0 blanking of Locksmith Services, in 12-and-under coed soccer action.

eBusiness Applications’ Dave Johnson will be presenting a live webinar tomorrow on Implementing Ajax with Java. June 14, 2006 - 2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT. Register here. Topics covered:

What is AJAX and what are the basic technologies

The basics of the Java DWR AJAX Framework

What are the critical application architecture decisions

How should developers approach testing and debugging in a Web browser

You can also grab the slide deck (PDF) for a preview.

The EBA guys are certainly ramping up the multimedia Ajax content out there…they’ve also begun a weekly podcast. Here’s the podcast feed (via Andre “Captain Ajax” Charland’s blog :-).

Posted by Jen Grant, Google Book Search team

Summer in New York: kids running through fountains, steamy subways, P. Diddy's White Party in the Hamptons, and ... Shakespeare. Today, Shakespeare in the Park kicks off its 50th year with free performances of Macbeth in Central Park. To help celebrate (and because we love a good excuse to delve into old books), we've created a place to find and search the complete plays of Shakespeare. Here, book lovers and theater fans alike can explore popular favorites and lesser-known gems right from their desktops with Google Book Search. (Note that some print versions of Shakespeare's plays may not be in the public domain everywhere in the world. Where copyright status is in question, we protect the publisher by showing the Snippet View. As always, we encourage you to let us know if you believe a publication should be in Full Book View, and we hope you bear with us as we confirm the status and, whenever appropriate, change the display.)

Finally, if you want to learn more about how Book Search is helping people around the world browse and discover books of all kinds, be sure to check out our new blog too.

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Posted by Sophia Brueckner, Software Engineer

We've released the Personalized Homepage feature in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand, so that more of you around the world can put the information you want on your Google homepage.

And given the football frenzy now underway, we've included the gadget for the World Cup in these new editions to make live scores, standings and schedules available. So hop to it now for soccer updates or other info (like news, weather, recent Gmail messages, and feeds from your favorite sites).

Google has released a new search API that lets you add an Ajax version of Google Search to your site (instead of just a simple search box that heads off to Google land).

As well as the API itself, you can take a look at the search module as an example:

MXGraph has been released, which shows you how to build interactive visuals simply from your browser:

MxGraph is JGraph in a browser. It uses Javascript, SVG and VML, along with an XML communications protocol to provide an interactive graph visualization toolkit in a standard Internet browser. The demo of MxGraph is a pure client-side implementation, but there is also a version that links to a server and enables many people to view and interact with the same diagrams simultaneously.

 

Originellement chez DSI. Le carnet des sites de recherche le 12 Juin, 2006, 5:20am

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Selon le Magazine Forbes, Google devrait lancer Gbuy, sa solution de paiement concurrente de Paypal, dès le 28 juin prochain, sur le marché américain .

La concurrence avec eBay s’intensifie. Selon le Magazine Forbes, Google devrait lancer le 28 juin prochain “Gbuy”, nom de code provisoire de la solution de paiement interpersonnelle actuellement développée par le moteur de recherche américain.

Présentée comme “Révolutionnaire”, Gbuy pourrait se différencier de Paypal, filiale de eBay, en renonçant aux commissions sur les transactions financières. Selon les différentes informations qui commencent à filtrer, Google aurait également décidé de coupler Gbuy à AdWords, sa solution de liens sponsorisés, en mettant en avant les annonceurs ayant adopté son outil de paiement.

La suite chez NetEconomie Actualité le 13 Juin, 2006, 6:24am

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“A” may stand for Asynchronous, but PPK recently asked his readers if people are really exploiting the asynchronous nature of Ajax. Are there really situations where the user can do something while a request takes place? For instance, GMail makes an asynchronous call to grab some mail data - do you actually play around with other controls while the data downloads? Probably not. So he’s wondering…

(W)hether asynchronous communication is all that it’s cracked up to be from a practical point of view. If in practice it’s not useful to initiate a new request while waiting for the response to a previous request, Ajax’s main user interface advantage is kind of nullified.

The comments to that post indicate there are indeed practical uses of asynchrony … he’s subsequently summarized four kinds of asynchronous usage:

• Sending data to the server (AKA fire-and-forget)
• Refreshing data (AKA polling, Periodic Refresh)
• This is the (as yet single) example of Ajax as I always supposed it would work: quietly but incessantly refreshing the page content based on repeated user actions
• New “pages” (AKA Microlink)