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In the last two columns we talked about the emerging platform of the Web, and the use of Web APIs found through directories. Now I have something to show you that lives up to that hype, in essence a layer of technology, on-demand, that lives between the API provider and the API consumer, which is an API itself. It’s the ProgrammableWeb API, which is an API-enabled registry/repository that allows you to find and access thousands of existing APIs out there.

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Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Watch as Guthrie showcases the absolutely free version of Visual Studio that supports standard semantic markup, CSS, JavaScript ,and 3rd party AJAX framework support. Follow along as he introduces ASP.NET MVC and its focus in building light-weight standard web solutions. Learn about Microsoft how Silverlight, AJAX and media enable a whole new generation of Rich Internet Applications

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World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee is starting a World Wide Web Foundation, set to launch early next year, to “advance a web that is open and free” and find a way to introduce that 80% of the world’s population still enjoying normal, pleasant, Luddite little lives to Internet time. The foundation is supposed to stick up for democracy, free speech and the freedom of Internet users to access the content they want.

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Adobe Flex and Flash are the ideal technology for Rich Internet Applications because you can build those applications with reusable components that are Loosely Coupled. In his session, learn how you can create an On-Demand Authoring Environment for creating Rich Internet Applications bound to any database or web service using Flex 2 and Flash CS4.

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It’s simple and minimalistic, has a small memory footprint and is easy on the CPU. Flash player works fine on my Windows XP box. JavaFX developers should like it too.

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As the malware threat landscape continues to evolve, hackers are continuously changing techniques to counteract detection technologies being developed by vendors. By using sophisticated methods to evade current antivirus technologies, hackers are relentless in their pursuit of damaging IT systems and oftentimes gaining access to sensitive information.

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Google is following a common pattern used in the IT industry - get something out there and then tweak it as necessary. I’m not sure how all of this will play out. I do know that when the elephants start fighting a lot of dust will be raised. Only when that dust settles will we have a better idea about the future of cloud computing and the Internet.

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