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Jun 15, 2006 News Wire

by Kevin Yank

  • ZK 2.0
    A toolkit for writing AJAX applications in Java, which generates the client-side code (JavaScript and HTML or XUL) for the user interface automatically. The demo seems a little sluggish and the docs a little rough, but otherwise pretty slick.
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  • Eight Problems That Haven’t Changed
    This excerpt from Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger’s new book “Prioritizing Web Usability” looks at eight usability problems that have been known for years but continue to be a frequent problem today.
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  • AOL-Netscape Launches Massive “Digg Killer”
    Netscape hitches its star to a Digg-like community-powered news service. With the next version of digg.com featuring general categories slated for launch in three weeks, the competition will be interesting to watch.
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  • eBay Adds Blogs, Wiki
    eBay is launching a wiki powered by JotSpot for its users to share information about the auction site. Other new features to the site will include user blogs and telephone alerts (U.S.-only for now).
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  • What users hate most about Web sites
    A nice top five of annoying design mistakes, if a bit on the obvious side.
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  • The HTML Report Engine
    A nice-looking open source library for generating HTML-formatted reports from a .NET DataSet object.
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  • WCF RSS Toolkit
    A toolkit for use with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), the services component of the .NET Framework 3.0, for exposing services as RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds.
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This entry was posted on Friday, June 16th, 2006 at 1:20 am, contains 224 words, and is filed under Industry Links. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

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  1. Ghandi Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 1:54 am

    I like how digg users have managed to make the #1 story for the day be about how AOL is coping Digg.

    http://www.beta.netscape.com/

     
  2. Michael Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 5:36 am

    Oh, WCF on such a site… Will Apollo be the next step to break the PHP bounds @ Sitepoint?

     
  3. Kevin Yank Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 11:07 am

    Thanks for the tip, Michael. Apollo will be in tomorrow’s News Wire.

     

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