Designed to remove purchase barriers and provide online consumers with a more convenient, efficient and faster shopping experience, GSI Commerce Inc. has added two new features to its e-commerce platform - express shop and mini- cart. Built with AJAX technology, the Web 2.0-based features allow online consumers to view additional product detail, purchase multiple quantities and colors of a product, add products to the shopping cart and view the products added to the cart - dynamically, all without leaving the Web page on which they are shopping. GSI Commerce launched both the express shop and mini-cart features earlier this month for its e-commerce partner, Aeropostale (http://www.aeropostale.com). Aeropostale is a leading mall-based, specialty retailer of casual and active apparel for young men and women. "Partnering with GSI Commerce provides our online store with a... (more)

New Rediffmail Leverages AJAX Technology

"To ensure that new Rediffmail remains 'lightning fast', it is packed with desk-top email like features such as instant preview of mails and attachments, drag & drop facility for mails to any folder, search for emails or attachments and auto-completion of email IDs by simply typing a few characters. The new Rediffmail allows users to execute many email tasks on the first page itself - such as create folders to organise mails, manage contacts through enhanced address book feature and manage profiles that interfaces directly with Rediff BOL (Instant Messenger)," says the company. Rediff.com also announced that to it is introducing 'Smart Mail Service' for Rediffmail users, which will enable them to send and receive email alerts on their mobile phones, to capitalize on the rapidly growing mobile subscriber base in India. Manish Agarwal, Vice President Marketing, Rediff.c... (more)

3rd Eye Solutions Launches New AJAX Search Engine DomJax.com

For businesses and marketers that live on the Web, 3rd Eye Solutions has launched DomJax (domjax.com), a new search engine that manages domain name searches with search engine optimization (SEO) tools. With the arrival of DomJax, domain name searches can be tracked and recorded, eliminating the time consuming process of building a list from scratch. In addition to streamlining the domain name search process, DomJax is also a comprehensive tool for SEO. It features proprietary tools that monitor site traffic, review archived web pages, determine route packets, check homepage HTML validity and provide site ranks. DomJax also reviews Web content, quality accessibility and privacy issues. Following is a rundown on the SEO tools and what they do: • Check Web site traffic detail with Alexa feature • Review archived Web pages since 1996 with the Wayback Machine • ... (more)

Mitsue-Links Releases Contact Management System

Mitsue-Links has released a Contact Management System which performs centralized control of inquiries from various stakeholders through the website. Contact management is of increasing importance for corporate activities. And this system supports corporate activities by allowing the creation of inquiry forms, management of the inquiries and control of the operators to be centrally governed on the control screen. The AJAX-based control screen adopts an easy-to-use interface with a reduced number of screen changes. Without adding any unnecessary workload, it ensures integrated contact management operations. Service Features 1.Easy to create inquiry forms Forms for different stakeholders can be easily created by combining various templates. Deadlines and other settings can be made. 2. Simple Web-based processing of inquiries There is no need to download any CSV data regardin... (more)

Mitsue-Links Releases AJAX-Based Contact Management System

Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Masashi Takahashi; hereinafter "Mitsue-Links") has released Contact Management System which performs centralized control of inquiries from various stakeholders through the website. Contact management is of increasing importance for corporate activities. And this system supports corporate activities by allowing the creation of inquiry forms, management of the inquiries and control of the operators to be centrally governed on the control screen. The AJAX-based control screen adopts an easy-to-use interface with a reduced number of screen changes. Without adding any unnecessary workload, it ensures integrated contact management operations. Service Features 1. Easy to create inquiry forms: Forms for different stakeholders can be easily created by combining various templates. Deadlines and other settings ... (more)

Zapatec Launches AJAX Events Calendar

Zapatec announced the launch of its AJAX Events Calendar, a single-page, multi-user solution, providing full desktop functionality in an easy-to-deploy calendaring solution. Developers can now embed the Calendar in any application or purchase it as a software package, a hosted solution or a virtual appliance deployable on Amazon's EC2 cloud. "Building Web 2.0 applications from scratch is expensive and time-consuming," said Dror Matalon, CEO of Zapatec. "By plugging the Zapatec Events Calendar into an application, you accelerate the time to market for your project while reducing costs and future-proofing your calendaring needs. Using our AJAX Events Calendar frees you up to focus on your core business." "We needed to add an elegant yet complex calendaring component to waComplete.com, our service that provides businesses with a rich, Web 2.0 CRM solution with integrat... (more)

Netflix UI Guru To Present on Crafting Rich Web Interfaces

Over the last 24 years Bill Scott has been involved in the study of nuanced design in crafting rich interfaces, so who better at the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo to address the topic "Crafting Rich Web Interfaces" than the UI and UX guru who is currently Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix. In every field of design one of the first things students do is learn from the work of others. They study and break down real-world examples in order to understand the underlying principles and patterns that make for successful design. Then they learn to apply these to their own set of problems. The real trick is to apply them in a nuanced manner. To be nuanced is 'to be sensitive to delicate differences of style.' Most of the art in crafting a rich experience on the Web can be summed up with this one word - 'nuance'. Prior to joining Netflix, he... (more)

Neotys Named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Neotys is a leader in easy-to-use, cost effective stress and load testing tools for Web 2.0 Applications. Since 2005, Neotys has been helping its clients in more than 40 countries to ensure their applications' reliability, performance and quality. NeoLoad, load testing solution for RIAs, ensures better efficiency to perform your tests faster, while providing pertinent analyses and full support for all new technologies. NeoLoad is one of the first web application testing tools to fully support Adobe Flex 3 and the AMF protocol. NeoLoad also perfectly handles other RIA applications that exchange data in text or XML formats over HTTP/S like AJAX, GWT or Silverlight applications. At each stage of your project, the Neotys consultants are on hand to guide you, thereby ensuring the successful deployment of your applications. For more information about Neotys products and so... (more)

Silverlight 2 Interview on HerdingCode PodCast

Earlier this week Tim Heuer and I got a chance to be interviewed on the HerdingCode podcast.  Thanks to Jon Galloway and co for a great show!..  It was a very fun experience.   Here is the topic list we covered...  Fun, fun stuff! Listen to our Silverlight 2 podcast! What's new? The relationship between the DLR and Silverlight 2 The Eclipse for Silverlight development The Open Specification Promise for XAML Progress on Mono / Moonlight The elevator speech on Silverlight How Silverlight fits in with AJAX Can Silverlight support separation of concerns and testability? Will Microsoft be shipping frameworks for Silverlight? Will Silverlight support offline scenarios Silverlight as a "line of business" platform The WPF / Silverlight connection The Silverlight open source community The Flash question The casual gaming market Silverlight performance vs. Javascript Specul... (more)

Omniture Brings Real-Time Analytics To iPhone Applications

Omniture is extending its SiteCatalyst measurement tool to native iPhone applications, enabling developers and marketers to gain insight on how users are interacting with their iPhone apps, based on real-time information. This should allow them not only to improve the user experience based on analytics, but also make adjustement necessary to generate more revenue by enhancing ad clicks, purchasing and increasing page views. The new offer, which is basically an extension of its existing SiteCatalyst solution, is called App Measurement for iPhone and will be generally available as from January 2009. To our knowledge this is the first analytics program specifically designed for native iPhone applications, but it’s safe to say other providers will soon follow suit with similar offerings. Update: that’s why we love commenters. Venture-backed Pinch Media also offers an an... (more)

My talks on Flex, JavaFX and a $300 coupon

During the next three months I’ll be making a number of technical presentations for Flex and Java developers. These are the confirmed events:1.    New York Flex User’s Group, February 19, Flex design patterns, details shoul ... (more)