AJAX Related Topics 
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DECEMBER 19, 2011
A series of standards emerged known as “AJAX” (asynchronous javascript and xml) that gave the web-based designer much more control over the browser. AJAX was one of the major drivers of the “dot com renaissance” that became known as Web 2.0. And that’s what happened.
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NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0
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NOVEMBER 22, 2010
lean startups or even the advent of AJAX. I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0,
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DECEMBER 26, 2010
Because our product wasn’t built 6 years ago we were able to take advantage of many of the Ajax-based toolsets that are newer on the market and thus have a more intuitive design. Where we hope to continue to differentiate with customers is in the simplicity of our design.
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DECEMBER 27, 2010
We talked about why customers were slow to adopt (cloud computing was really early and most people had security concerns), we talked about how hard it was to raise money (2002/03), we talked about some of the tech challenges we were facing (AJAX didn’t exist yet, browsers were really bad) and, of course, we talked about other competition.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2010
Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. That meant that user experience was not as rich as it would be for a client-side app. But the trade-off in terms of flexibility and costs were enormous.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Over time, with the growth of the popularity of AJAX we had a richer experience as users and as developers. My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. Our view then (kind of obvious now) was that software would be consumed the way that consumer Internet sites were back then.
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