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IBM is about to commit itself heavily to browser-based applications. The giant IT company is quietly working on a project called Blue Spruce, which aims to create a fully browser-based

2008 has seen a proliferation of new Web platforms, including a few major ones built using open standards. In this final instalment of our series of top products of 2008,

Today, Appcelerator, a Mountain View-based company that focuses on open source technologies for building rich web applications, announced the first public release of its Titanium platform. The closest analogue to

IBM is about to commit itself heavily to browser-based applications. The giant IT company is quietly working on a project called Blue Spruce, which aims to create a fully browser-based

It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side this week, we analyzed why platforms such as Facebook and Open Social have

In good times everyone wants to be a platform. But when times are bad and platforms are just an expense, the resources suddenly shift away. The recent re-design of Facebook,

AOL announced the new developer site for MyAOL today to almost no fanfare, but at a time when some are declaring the Facebook platform "dead" - AOL's new platform warrants

The Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social

It's great to hear that Marc Canter is writing a book, called 'How to build the Open Mesh'. He's been working for years on this vision with his product PeopleAggregator.

In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We're not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those have been