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We love Dojo and are eager to foster its development.  This should be a ton of fun.


shawncarnell at 9:15:54 PM EDT Permalink | Blog about this entry |  Add to del.icio.us |  digg this This entry has 0 comments: Add your own

Our organization here at AOL was asked to think about what it means to be a technological leader.  Here's what i came up with:

A technological leader enables products users are passionate about.  It does this by funding the development of core technologies, driving open standards, supporting open interfaces, and conducting technological research.  The organization must be independent enough to manage the necessary tension between technical excellence and aggressive product requirements.  Taking risks with disruptive technology, technical evangelization, and support of external developers build the organization’s market recognition.  The organization must remain agile by allocating time specifically for innovation and worker self-education, and by listening thoughtfully to the workers in the technological trenches.

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I'm thrilled to announce (along with lots of other folks) that AOL has launched two exciting programs today:

• "Open AIM" - Developers can create AIM plugins, use AIM web apis, and even create their own AIM clients using the SDK.
• MapQuest Open APIs - I'll try to update this entry when i have info about how this compares to the Google Maps API.

Man, i wish i had time to create a plugin for AIM but i recommend JAMS for a bunch of cool ones (included in the SDK).


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I'm gonna be speaking at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in San Diego next week.  Since i presented in a Dick Hardt/Larence Lessing style the slides aren't complete without the monologue but you'll get the idea.




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I just landed back in Dulles after having visited MV and gotten to spend some time with the Dojo leads Alex Russell and Dylan Schiemann.  We're really excited to be working with these guys as we bring iamalpha.com up to speed.  We have some AOL tech that needs a good home and we'll be working get that stuff out into Dojo in the coming weeks.

* As Kevin and Joe know, The Bitchin' Malibu really knows how to kick some asphalt on the mean streets of Mountain View.


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If you like microformats and long walks along the CSS, you have got to check out I AM ALPHA.  Boy, is it!


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The more i think about JSON interfaces, the more i think there should be a movement to complement most all existing REST XML web services with JSON counterparts.


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Alexa let's you compile and run C code on their servers.  You get to schedule jobs sorta like the old days.  I'm also been tracking Ning, which let's you host PHP code and even do open proxying.  These hosting services might make cool backends for Modules/Widgets.


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It would be cool if i could specify both the subject and the content type of media that i'm looking for using tags.  There was a thread about this at http://lists.del.icio.us/pipermail/discuss/2005-June/003354.html.  It seems a shame, though, not to just re-use MIME types (just reformatted for tag-speak). 


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