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Jeremy Geelan
Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV. |
"May Every New Thing
Arise" (With Apologies to
Peru) By Jeremy Geelan Nowhere in the preamble
to the Declaration of
Independence did Thomas
Jefferson reference the
Internet, eBay, Skype, or
Flickr. But if he'd lived
another 180 years, to
2006 instead of 1826, I
feel certain he would at
some point have said
something like this... Mar. 11, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 20,682 Replies: 3 | AJAXWorld 2007 East: It's
Official! Jeremy Geelan
Is a Web 2.0 Turtle By Jeremy Geelan Alex Haley once said it
very succinctly. 'Anytime
you see a turtle atop a
fence post,' he once
wrote, 'you know it had
some help.' I was
immediately reminded of
Haley's remark when out
of the blue at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
East where I was
yesterday awar... Mar. 7, 2007 08:15 AM Reads: 24,591 Replies: 3 | Is Java a "Ball and
Chain"? By Jeremy Geelan  These are curious times
just now for Java. In one
and the same month, Steve
Jobs stands up, and
declares - referring to
language support on the
new Apple iPhone -
'Java's not worth
building in. Nobody uses
Java anymore. It's this
big heavyweight ball and
chain.' A... Mar. 6, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 27,922 Replies: 12 | How Open Is "Open"?
– Industry
Luminaries Join the
Debate By Jeremy Geelan In order to describe
itself as an 'open
source' company, need a
company merely be 'a
company that will help
you make the switch to
open source in your
company' - or does it
have to be one that lets
users feely download,
compile, and use the
software in question?
... Mar. 1, 2007 05:00 AM Reads: 66,899 Replies: 18 | Blogging –
Corporate America's "Big
Wet Kiss To Web 2.0" By Jeremy Geelan The significance of
blogging is not the word
'blog' whether used as a
verb or a noun, but its
role as a harbinger of
the game-changing
Web-as-platform
revolution. In
particular, the migration
of blogging from the
individual toward the
enterprise... Feb. 25, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 31,469 Replies: 2 | What Does It Mean To Be a
Web 2.0 Company? By Jeremy Geelan AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo 2007 East speaker
John Eckman has been
summarizing on his blog a
recent digital fracas
between Lawrence Lessig
and Nick Carr on what it
means to be a Web 2.0
company. Feb. 23, 2007 06:30 PM Reads: 24,499 Replies: 3 | AJAXWorld Faculty To
Present Social Tools
Expert Stowe Boyd By Jeremy Geelan  Stowe Boyd,
internationally
recognized authority on
social tools and their
impact on business and
society and editor of
/Message, the blog on
'what is happening at the
edge, and its impact on
the center,' will be
speaking at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2007
East... Feb. 23, 2007 06:30 PM Reads: 29,214 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Heroines:
IBM Fellow Emerita
Frances Allen Wins Turing
Award By Jeremy Geelan Frances E. Allen was
yesterday named the first
ever woman recipient of
the prestigious Turing
Award. In 1989, Allen was
the first woman to be
named an IBM Fellow. But
she is not the only
'i-Technology Heroine' -
many inspired suggestions
of others have been
coming... Feb. 23, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 19,185 | Adobe Flex at AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo By Jeremy Geelan  As the biggest-ever
i-Technology event
devoted specifically to
AJAX-compatible Rich
Internet Application
technologies, it is
hardly surprising that
AJAXWorld Conference 2007
had an entire track
devoted to Flex. Feb. 21, 2007 11:00 PM Reads: 25,110 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
Is Anything More Social
Than Computing? By Jeremy Geelan 'Social Computing,' I
wrote back in August
2006, 'is about to turn
the Web world upside
down.' Now Helge Städtler
of the University of
Bremen has been kind
enough to quote - and
amplify - my assertion. Feb. 19, 2007 02:30 PM Reads: 27,277 | Javaland Discusses
Eckel's "Java Backlash"
Analysis By Jeremy Geelan When Bruce Eckel wrote
'It's clear that we can't
wait for Sun to fix all
of Java's problems,' he
possibly hadn't reckoned
that his essay would
provoke a huge response
the length and breadth of
Javaland. Feb. 16, 2007 01:45 AM Reads: 29,384 | The JBoss–Fleury
Era Ends: Middleware's
Outspoken Bad Boy Bows
Out of Red Hat By Jeremy Geelan His paternity leave
having developed into
eternity leave, Marc
Fleury is quitting Red
Hat. Feb. 10, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 21,793 Replies: 1 | Where's i-Technology
Headed in 2007? By Jeremy Geelan  At the end of each year,
when SYS-CON informally
polls its globe-girdling
network of software
developers, industry
executives, commentators,
investors, writers, and
editors, our question is
always the same: where's
the industry going next
year? Feb. 7, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 29,243 | Who Are the Top 100
i-Technology Heroes? By Jeremy Geelan What do Vannevar Bush,
Doug Engelbart, Claude E.
Shannon, and Konrad Zuse
(to name but a few) all
have in common? All were
missing from the initial
round-up I recently
published in an attempt
to nail down - by
consensus - the top 100
or 150 contributors of
all-tim... Feb. 6, 2007 07:00 AM Reads: 23,128 Replies: 9 | Who Are The All-Time
Heroes of i-Technology? By Jeremy Geelan  How easy/difficult is it
to nail down the most
significant 100
contributors to
i-Technology history? No
sooner had I begun my
attempt to do so than
developers and IT
professionals Web-wide
began to send in their
2c... Feb. 5, 2007 04:45 AM Reads: 135,793 Replies: 48 | Steve Jobs Dismisses Java
As "Heavyweight" in an
Age of Lightweight
Computing By Jeremy Geelan  These are curious times
just now for Java. In one
and the same month, Steve
Jobs stands up, and
declares - referring to
language support on the
new Apple iPhone -
'Java's not worth
building in. Nobody uses
Java anymore. It's this
big heavyweight ball and
chain.' A... Feb. 2, 2007 06:15 AM Reads: 40,182 Replies: 11 | 'The AJAX Moment'
Mushrooms into the Web
2.0 Movement By Jeremy Geelan  Early in 2006, before the
general Internet-using
public was aware of what
I began referring to in
editorials, blog entries,
and SYS-CON's Internet TV
Webcasts as 'The AJAX
Moment,' there was a
strong sense among
industry insiders that
AJAX-like approaches, if
no... Jan. 25, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 18,126 Replies: 1 | Which Is More Important -
Saddam Hussein or
Google? By Jeremy Geelan  The year 2006 in which
YouTube became culturally
ubiquitous, Flash video
became the de facto
Internet video standard
of the Web, Microsoft
beta-launched Vista, and
the Wii entered our lives
- was also memorable for
one or two other
real-world events such as
the ha... Jan. 18, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 20,237 | "TV Anywhere, Anytime"
Gets a Boost...From Joost By Jeremy Geelan Combining 'the best
things about television
with the social power of
the Internet' is
precisely what The Venice
Project, which yesterday
came out of stealth and
announced itself as
Joost, is all about. Jan. 17, 2007 07:45 AM Reads: 25,873 Replies: 3 | Microsoft Snags Don
Ferguson, Former IBM
Chief Architect –
"Father of WebSphere" By Jeremy Geelan Don Ferguson, who guided
IBM's strategy and
architecture for SOA and
Web services, and
co-authored many of the
initial Web service
specifications, has been
hired by Microsoft. He is
now Microsoft Technical
Fellow in Platforms and
Strategy, in the Office
of the CTO. Jan. 15, 2007 07:00 PM Reads: 38,246 Replies: 7 | "Thin Is In" – Is
AJAX the Ultimate
Client-Side Technology
for Web Developers? By Jeremy Geelan When in October Brandon
Werner made his
impassioned 'Why can't
Java EE be more
AJAX-like?' plea, 34,526
SYS-CON.com readers read
what he had to say.
Cincinnati-based Werner
enjoined the Java
community to 'Think AJAX'
- by which he meant that,
unlike Java, with AJA... Jan. 15, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 18,429 | 'The AJAX Moment' Has
Arrived – What's In
It for Java? By Jeremy Geelan  When the fast-paced,
three-day program of
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo in the Santa Clara
Convention Center finally
ended earlier this month,
with over 90 technical
sessions and
presentations from
leading AJAX vendors like
Laszlo Systems, JackBe,
and Backbase as we... Jan. 12, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 31,136 Replies: 1 | 'The AJAX Moment'
Mushrooms into The Web
2.0 Movement By Jeremy Geelan Early in 2006 there was a
strong sense among
industry insiders that
AJAX-like approaches were
a shoo-in as the new
paradigm for fulfilling
the software development
community's dream of
freedom from OS or
runtime environment
dependent technologies.
Was the early op... Jan. 11, 2007 02:30 PM Reads: 36,440 Replies: 3 | The i-Technology Deal of
2006: The Google/YouTube
Deal By Jeremy Geelan 2006 will be remembered
as the year in which
YouTube became culturally
ubiquitous and Flash
video became the de facto
video standard of the
Web. As they return to
work after the holidays,
SYS-CON's network of
stakeholders - editors
and commentators,
columnists and... Jan. 9, 2007 12:45 AM Reads: 21,692 | i-Technology Predictions
for 2007: Where's It All
Headed? By Jeremy Geelan  At the end of each year,
when SYS-CON informally
polls its globe-girdling
network of software
developers, industry
executives, commentators,
investors, writers, and
editors, our question is
always the same: where's
the industry going next
year? Jan. 1, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 110,535 Replies: 13 | Saddam Hussein Or Google
– Which Is the More
Important? By Jeremy Geelan 2006 - the year in which
YouTube became culturally
ubiquitous, Flash video
became the de facto video
standard of the Web,
Microsoft beta-launched
Vista, and the Wii
entered our lives - was
also memorable for one or
two other, real-world
events such as the
hanging ... Dec. 30, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 24,742 Replies: 3 | Who Owns RSS? By Jeremy Geelan On Monday it emerged that
Microsoft had applied for
two patents covering
subscribing and
discovering what it
refers to as 'Web feeds'
- sparking a furore in
the blogosphere and
elsewhere that Redmond
had imperial designs on
RSS users. Dec. 28, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 19,374 Replies: 2 | The "Black Sheep of
Programming Languages"
Turns White By Jeremy Geelan  In the age of AJAX, in
which JavaScript has
emerged as the most
broadly available
scripting language for
Web development, Bruce
Tate has been wondering
whether its reputation as
'the black sheep of
programming languages'
isn't perhaps overdue for
revision. Dec. 20, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 18,067 Replies: 2 | The Adobe Vision for
2007-8 and Beyond Is Huge By Jeremy Geelan  Digital content is
exploding; video on the
Web is booming; Web 2.0
is hurtling toward us;
and Adobe believes
'engagement' is the one
word that best captures
its strategy and
encapsulates the
competitive advantage
that its fast-expanding
product set gives to the
... Dec. 19, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 18,580 | Skype Founders' Next
Move: Disrupting TV With
Internet Technology By Jeremy Geelan 'We are in the process of
launching a secure P2P
streaming technology that
allows content owners to
bring TV-quality video
and ease of use to a
TV-sized audience mixed
with all the wonders of
the Internet,' wrote
Henrik Werdelin in
November, on the company
blog of... Dec. 17, 2006 06:30 PM Reads: 29,245 Replies: 3 | i-Technology Blog: 200
Million People Can't Be
Wrong About Blogging By Jeremy Geelan One of Gartner's top 10
predictions for 2007 is
that the number of
bloggers will level off
in the first half of next
year at roughly 100
million worldwide.
Gartner estimates that
there are more than 200M
former bloggers who have
ceased posting. Dec. 16, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 21,579 Replies: 2 | Annual SYS-CON
"i-Technology
Predictions" Poll
Foretells the e-Future By Jeremy Geelan  The British economist E.
F. Schumacher used to
say, 'I cannot predict
the future, but I can
have my sail ready.' I
recently tried in my own
small way to help the
international community
of i-Technology
professionals get their
sails ready for 2007 by
repeating my
... Dec. 15, 2006 12:30 PM Reads: 14,199 Replies: 2 | .NET Editorial —
There Is Nothing
Permanent Except Change By Jeremy Geelan; Patrick Hynds  In a cross-platform world
where software giants
nevertheless continue to
vie with each other for
developer mindshare, it
is significant that only
one major company has
managed to synch up its
release numbers with the
Web 2.0 phenomenon.
Microsoft is not resting
on... Dec. 15, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 15,495 | Is the Rise of Google the
End of the Game for
Everyone Else? By Jeremy Geelan  As I write this, the
stock price of Google,
Inc. just exceeded $500
for the first time in the
company's still-brief
(two-year) history as a
public company. That
gives the search colossus
a market cap of $150
billion, many times in
excess of its physical
assets - c... Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 18,819 | SYS-CON Bloggers Reflect
High Energy-Level of the
i-Technology Space By Jeremy Geelan On any given day, more
blogs about i-Technology
appear at SYS-CON.con's
myriad domains than any
other destination site on
the Web. Topics range
from Java, AJAX,
enterprise open source,
Web services, SOA, Linux,
wireless technologies,
XML, .NET, Eclipse,
PowerBuild... Dec. 8, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 14,394 | Is The Rise of Google The
End of the Game for
Everyone Else? By Jeremy Geelan As I write this, the
stock price of Google,
Inc. just exceeded $500
for the first time in the
company's still-brief
(two-year) history as a
public company. That
gives Google a market cap
of $150 billion, compared
to $19.5 billion for Sun.
What's the explanation? Nov. 21, 2006 08:45 PM Reads: 16,203 Replies: 3 | Yahoo! SVP Sends "Peanut
Butter Manifesto" to
Fellow Executives By Jeremy Geelan Brad Garlinghouse, author
of the 'Peanut Butter
Manifesto' to his fellow
Yahoo! executives - which
made the front page of
the Wall Street Journal
at the weekend - intended
his leaked memo as a call
to action for Yahoo! to
regain its focus. Nov. 21, 2006 06:30 AM Reads: 10,472 Replies: 8 | "AJAX Lacks a
DataWindow," Contends
IBM's Bob Zurek By Jeremy Geelan AJAX frameworks - says
former Ascential VP of
Technology and Product
Management Bob Zurek, now
with IBM (who acquired
Ascential) - currently
lack a killer component
like the DataWindow.
Developers spend way to
much time dealing with
all the complexities that
are e... Nov. 20, 2006 10:15 AM Reads: 18,750 Replies: 3 | Microsoft-Novell: "Free
Has To Have A Price"
– "That's
Nonsense," Says Sun CEO
Jonathan Schwartz By Jeremy Geelan  'Those that say open
source software can't be
safe for customers - or
that commercially
indemnified software
can't foster community -
are merely advancing
their own agenda. Without
any basis in fact.' That,
according to Sun's CEO
Jonathan Schwartz, is why
the exec... Nov. 20, 2006 04:30 AM Reads: 15,981 Replies: 3 | "AJAX Is Not a Fad..."
– Developers Speak
Out By Jeremy Geelan  'AJAX is not a fad,'
according to Andy Lyttle.
'People aren't using AJAX
just because it's AJAX.
It's not for
buzzword-compliance,
although it has become a
buzzword. It's not for
adding useless frills,
although it can be used
for useless frills. AJAX
is a tool to ... Nov. 20, 2006 04:00 AM Reads: 19,934 Replies: 3 |
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