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Ajax Is the Buzz of Silicon Valley

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the follow-the-buzz-to-the-honey dept.

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Ajax, or 'Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,' is allowing webpages to update as quickly as desktop software, powering applications like Google Maps and attracting money from Silicon Valley investors, including for a collaboration-software company called Zimbra. The Wall Street Journal reports: 'Zimbra's chief executive, Satish Dhamaraj, says that when he started his company in December 2003, "I really thought that Ajax was just a bathroom cleaner." Now his San Mateo, Calif., business has amassed $16 million in funding from venture-capital firms including Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Benchmark Capital, the firm that famously funded eBay Inc. Peter Fenton, an Accel partner, says Ajax "has the chance to change the face of how we look at Web applications" and could boost technology spending by corporations, because Ajax is also being used to develop software for big companies, not just for consumers.'"

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  1. Thought that Ajax was just a bathroom cleaner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, Ajax is also an excuse for ad placement.

  2. Obligatory Link by frostman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Web Two Point Oh

    Get your AJAX-enabled startup right there!

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  3. JIT by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 5, Funny

    It has been almost a week without an AJAX story on the frontpage, it almost became something only old people in Korea use.

  4. Tired of hearing of it by Mancat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ajax has got to be the biggest buzzword of the year. Thank god nobody has figured out how to use Ajax to enable the community and synergize their collaborative efforts towards successification.

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  5. OMFG! by TrappedByMyself · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ajax, or 'Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,' is allowing webpages to update as quickly as desktop software

    Wow, and with the XML you can make it automatically talk to any system!!!!
    e-Business has reached a new plateau! Synergy abounds! Am I e-dreaming or what! Woohoo!!

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  6. Clean-sweeps the competition by wynterwynd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soon to be met by stiff competition from

    Content Oriented Markup Elements: Traditional
     
      and

    Server Oriented Funneling Transmission
    Streaming Concurrent Rational Units Bidirectionally
     

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