Alex Iskold is the Founder and CEO of adaptiveblue (http://www.adaptiveblue.com), where he is developing browser personalization technology. His previous startup, Information Laboratory, created innovative software analysis and visualization tool called Small Worlds. After Information Laboratory was acquired by IBM, Alex worked as the architect of IBM Rational Software Analysis tools. Before starting adaptiveblue, Alex was the Chief Architect at DataSynapse, where he developed GridServer and FabricServer virtualization platforms. He holds M.S. in Computer Science from New York University, where he taught an award-winning software engineering class for undergraduate students. He can be reached at alex.iskold@gmail.com.
Six month ago, Alex Iskold switched from J2EE Grid Computing to Web 2.0, JavaScript and Firefox extension development. He has been writing in Web 2.0 Journal about his experiences - see 'From J2EE to JavaScript.' This is the next instalment...
It has been just two years since Firefox appeared on the scene, but this Mozilla browser has surely changed the rules of the game. Firefox brought back the spirit, the innovation and the crowds of followers. Firefox is not only the underdog we are rooting for, it is a movement that is...
With this article I hope to reach out to the companies and thought leaders working in the attention space and start the dialog on the infrastructure for the Attention Economy. Note that the views presented in this article are my own and do not represent the views of the AttentionTrust ...
Last week I wrote here about the need to work out the architecture of attention. This week I will focus on a specific application attention platform: personalization. My article last week generated really interesting and important discussion about the the value of attention-capturing. ...
To make the concept of attention compelling and to prove to the consumers that their attention information is important, we need to build applications that provide useful services. And to build these applications we need a platform for the attention players to plug into. In short, we n...
The Google Base API is like Amazon S3 on steroids. In addition to pure storage capability, this API comes with concept of RSS-based structured data types, ability to automatically index and search the data, as well as storing and publish things via RSS. It is interesting, unexpected mo...
I am biased writing this article because my company is a big user of Amazon Web Services. But please read on and see why I am so excited about what the largest online retailer is doing these days. Not only Amazon is the real Web Services company now, it is becoming an icon for the 21st...
One of the things that attracts us all to Web 2.0 is that it is slick. Stuff pops up, floats, appears and disappears showcasing us the power of effects possible with today's JavaScript. We sit there in awe, thinking, wow, that was cool! Cool is what compels us to give it a try. Cool is...
The new web is all about creativity, cross-pollination of concepts, media and information. But what fuels this new web is networks. In his recent article, Dion Hinchcliffe calls social networks the Web 2.0 secret sauce. Very rightly so, because networks are one of the fundamental block...
Pattern: Concurrent Document Loader Problem: Need to load multiple documents and can't proceed until all of them are loaded Example: Load configuration files for an AJAX application
In the beginning of 2006, Alex Iskold - after spending the last 10 years of his career programming in Java - took off his Java hat and started a Web 2.0 company called adaptiveblue. In this Web 2.0 Journal exclusive, he shares his insights on transitioning from Java into the Web 2.0 de...
Amazon S3 is an innovative, exciting new service that is going to change the way we do computing on the web. Even though the service launched just a few months ago, numerous companies are already leveraging it for a wide range of purposes.
In 1998, I got my hands on Mitchell Waldrop's book called 'Complexity'. Ever since, I've been on an amazing journey discovering one of the most profound developments in modern science. Complexity, or more formally, the study of complex systems, is about unifying themes that run through...
There's no reason why our desktop applications cannot be web-aware. An improvement in this area would drive up our productivity, because switching back and forth between the application and the browser is very inefficient. This article looks at some examples of apps that already succee...
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Alex Iskold is the Founder and CEO of adaptiveblue (http://www.adaptiveblue.com), where he is developing browser personalization technology. His previous startup, Information Laboratory, created innovative software analysis and visualization tool called Small Worlds. After Information Laboratory was acquired by IBM, Alex worked as the architect of IBM Rational Software Analysis tools. Before starting adaptiveblue, Alex was the Chief Architect at DataSynapse, where he developed GridServer and FabricServer virtualization platforms. He holds M.S. in Computer Science from New York University, where he taught an award-winning software engineering class for undergraduate students. He can be reached at alex.iskold@gmail.com. 
The new web is all about creativity, cross-pollination of concepts, media and information. But what fuels this new web is networks. In his recent article, Dion Hinchcliffe calls social networks the Web 2.0 secret sauce. Very rightly so, because networks are one of the fundamental block...
