My partner at ideacodes Emily Chang and I were recently invited to participate in Microsoft’s Search Champs v4 this past week. In short Search Champs is brainstorming session between Microsoft designers, developers, project managers, and executives and a group of 57 internet thinkers and doers from around the world.”The sessions were were held at the Microsoft HQ in Redmond Washington. All participants had to sign a Microsoft nondisclosure agreement (NDA) so most of what we saw and talked about cannot be blogged about. The majority of what was demoed to us was pre-alpha or soon to be released products. There were several announcements that were made to the group that were non-NDA. “By far the one that impressed me the most was the launch that day of Microsoft Live Labs and some great improvements to live.com. I’ll be doing …

Can your website connect to every mobile device or to your company’s live inventory system? How about your customer’s neural network? After thinking about what I saw yesterday at Stanford with the nine entrepreneur’s under the age of 27, I was struck with the percentage of applications that were connected in some way to another device. Last year I saw Howard Rheingold at SXSW and he spoke about cell phones being the most prevalent computing device. Think about it. As Rheingold pointed out, “do you see more computers of cell phones?””Currently, there are web applications launching every day that focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing. Many of these applications already include mobile functions. “So, if you are a company trying to …

Yesterday we attended the Entrepreneur27 Technology Symposium on the campus of Stanford University. This Entrepreneur27 symposium was a chance for nine start-ups to demo their products to, “influential representatives from newspapers, popular blogs, progressive companies, universities, and venture capitalist firms”. “Hear the podcast of the event – 12.2 MB mp3 – duration: 53 min”The companies that presented at the symposium were as follows.rnBillMonkrn411 Metro “Standpoint rnLicketyShip rnFlagr rnPlaceSite rnBox.Net rnSkobee “NeuroSky “Download the symposium handout about the companies.”This podcast begins a new feature for my blog. I am teaming up with Emily Chang of eHub to start doing podcasts and videos of the makers and doers of the internet. Our specific area of interest will be on entrepreneurs, developers, and thinker who focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, …

Max Kiesler and Ideacodes have been invited to E27 Technology Symposium at Stanford University. E27 is “a forum for young entrepreneurs to showcase their upcoming or new products to influential representatives from newspapers, popular blogs, progressive companies, universities, and venture capitalist firms.”rn

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Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax. In this article, you’ll begin with the most fundamental and basic of all Ajax-related objects and programming approaches: The XMLHttpRequest object.nn

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