My Internet Notebook

Web 2.0 of the Consumer Internet

Monte Jade January Meeting

Date: January 18, 2006(Wednesday) 6:30pm
Place: Hong Fu Restaurant, Tel: (408) 252-2200
20588 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA
Speaker: Mr. Ram Shriram
Founding Board Member, Google Inc.
Founder, Sherpalo
Host: Mr. Chih-Kai Cheng
General Partner, Harbinger Venture Management Corp.blockquote

AJAX demistified in 30 seconds:

Rasmus’ 30 second AJAX Tutorial

In your JavaScript code, you create an request object (Microsoft.XMLHTTP for IE; XMLHttpRequest for FireFox); then using the http oject to make a get request which can then return some string (or XML file) for you to consume and display in a meaning manner.

Bnoopy: The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens. By Joe Krauss

You know the real reason Excite went out of business? We couldn’t figure out how to make money from 97% of our traffic. We couldn’t figure out how to make money from the long tail – from those queries asked only once a day.

Also Chris Anderson’s article on the Long Tail.