An API-Only Business Model?
Amazon, Yahoo, and Ebay all have E-Commerce APIs, right? The model is “You can create a UI and if it fits a niche better than us, you make money”. It’s one of those odd models where you’re competing and partnering...
Ajax Periodic Refresh, Chat, and Multiplayer Gaming
First, a quick update on yesterday’s book anouncement: Thanks for your interest. Yes, it will be published as a physical book. In the O’Reilly animal format. And no, I don’t know which animal.
Ajax Design Patterns Book
Protopage as Portal
I mentioned Protopage yesterday. It’s look-and-feel has so much more appeal than the standard Ajaxian portals (Google Homepage, Backbase, Start, etc.). Considering the others are more powerful functionally - given that you can do stuff like grab RSS feeds and...
Greasing Greasemonkey Scripts
Tweaking a Greasemonkey script is easy. It’s just a single file, so you download the file locally, edit it, and install it the same way you’d install any other script.